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March 9-13, 2026
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

GDC 2025 Session Viewer

Crossing the Uncanny Valley with RTX Neural Face Rendering (Presented by NVIDIA)

Damien Bataille  (Lead Software Engineer, NVIDIA)

Bernardo Antoniazzi  (Principal Technical Artist, NVIDIA)

Nathan Hoobler  (Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA)

Location: Room 3009, West Hall

Date: Thursday, March 20

Time: 9:30 am - 10:30 am

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Track: Programming

Format: Sponsored Session

Vault Recording: Not Recorded

Audience Level: All

NVIDIA

Explore the exciting world of AI-powered face rendering. Zorah, an NVIDIA technology demo, shows the exciting improvements and challenges in creating lifelike digital humans, while exploring the future of GPU technology that's changing the uncanny valley.

Takeaway

Attendees will learn how new NVIDIA technologies can be used to bring better visual fidelity to face rendering to cross the uncanny valley.

Intended Audience

Graphics programers, artists.



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