/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

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Was he the first Vtuber?

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>>23766397
Yes

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>>23766397
Nope.

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>>23766397
I remember buying into Max Headroom fever as a kid. Everyone was told that he was a computer program and people thought that it was some kind of high tech rendering of an actor —but— he was actually just wearing makeup and prosthetics.

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>>23766397
No. If he counts as a vtuber than every alien on Star Trek does too. It's just a fibreglass suit and a stiff hairpiece.
(Speaking of Strar Trek, his actor's in an episode of TNG)

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No Mario was. This is digital not a plastic mask.
https://youtu.be/R1t6iNG28zI

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>>23767390
Wait, that’s the same “Mario’s head” model from that typing game I’ve seen on youtube poops constantly, didn’t think it was originally from a tech demo(also one of the earliest times Charles did Mario so that’s interesting)

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>>23766397
What does max headroom mean? Rentfree?

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>>23766397
No. That was actually traditional makeup, nothing CGI about him.

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>>23766397
No, but he created the idea of a vtubers, so technically all vtubers are copying him.

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Mussolini was

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>>23766719
Didn't know they let you folks browse 4chan in nursing homes

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>>23768900

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>>23768573
No, he didn't. You either don't know what the character of Max Headroom is about or you have a massively fantastical misconception about vtubers.
>>23768099
>Though Max was the star of the show, he was really a very minor character. The story followed Intrepid Reporter Edison Carter (also Frewer) and his "controller" (i.e. director) Theora (Amanda Pays, who later played fanfic-favorite Phoebe Green on The X-Files) as he attempted to uncover a conspiracy revolving around the Blipvert, a highly compressed advertisement his station had recently adopted, which had the unfortunate side effect of causing some viewers to explode. In his daring escape from security with orders to kill, he is gravely injured when he crashes his motorcycle into a gatepost.

>Bryce Lynch, a totally unlikable Teen Genius, generates an AI copy of Carter's mind to cover up his disappearance, but the copy is somewhat unstable and has a bad stammer. He takes his name from the last thing Edison had seen before his injury: a sign on the gatepost reading "MAX HEADROOM: 2.3 METERS".
Of course the obvious joke his that his head is empty.

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>>23768926
I was likely duck rolling people on /b/ before you were born, Anon.

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>>23769113
Yes yes, now hurry up with your jello and let's get you to bed.

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>>23768975
Really based architecture.

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>>23767390
Mario is my oshi

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>>23766397
God is the first and last VTuber

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>>23768975
Fascists always putting their names and faces on things.

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>>23768008
no that's from 1992, not 1996. It's still the same VA though

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>>23768975
mario 64 if he real

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>>23768975
Ironic that it spells out death in romanji over and over

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>>23766397
no, did he stream at youtube ?

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>>23766397
Yes, with a lore and everything, even if the tech of the time meant only the backgrounds were computer-generated and the character was done with prosthesis.

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I'd define vtubing as realtime computer animation done with facetracking, and broadcast live

That was not even remotely possible until the 90s and even then it was incredibly primitive (people here have already mentioned the Mario face tech demo). But when I think back for examples we never saw any because bandwidth was so incredibly limited at the time (your typical RealPlayer livestream was something pitifully small, like 150x150px). Even after the average person's connection speed nosed over 10Mbps you still didn't see people doing this because cameras (and processing hardware) were still not good enough to resolve your face in high enough resolution to be mapped.

We had plenty of people animating themselves and adding their own voiceovers, that's definitely a precedent but it was always done by hand. Facerig, which came out of a desire to have unrealistic avatars in video calls, is what spawned this whole thing in my opinion.

The first person to broadcast using a Facerig avatar was arguably the first vtuber. And was likely a furry.

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>>23779652
Your requirement that they broadcast live means kizuna ai is not a vtuber.

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>>23780719
The alternative is literally any animated face being a vtuber

See also the Master Control Program in Tron

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>Mario was the first vtuber
>Wario was the second
KNEEL

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In 1997 the guy from Kung Pow: Enter the First used real time face and body tracking in a couple skits in a tv movie.

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>>23766397
Aelita from Code Lyoko was the first Vtuber.

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>>23769113
Zoomers were a mistake but it was our mistake because us Gen Xers didnt beat our illegitimate children enough. Then again the Greatest Generation didnt beat the Boomer hippy children enough and the same shit happened

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>>23780835
There's a difference between an animated face and a face rig. A face rig is animated in real time, regardless of whether or not it was broadcasted live.
Either way, I don't see how a definition that excludes kizuna can be right.

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Is this the first Vsingers then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyHNuVaZJ-k