Author: Adam St Amour

During the holiday release schedule in 2010, Disney released both a sequel to a niche movie, as well as a piece of technology that introduced an innovative technology to the masses. Tron: Legacy brought to light a technology used to de-age one of the film’s original and sequel stars: Jeff Bridges. The question posed today asks what if you utilized technology to create a “Deepfake” instead of de-age the actor… Well people, the future is here. But first… What is a deepfake?

The Department of Defense over the last several years has placed a great deal of hope in Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and the blend between the two known now as Extended Reality (XR). Last year, the U.S. Army awarded a contract to Microsoft worth up to $21.9 billion dollars over 10 years. This exuberant cost might look like Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA) to many, but to those of us who have looked at ways to utilize this capability, this was what we call a flag planting moment. Years from now as our generations will look back, this will be a moment in which modern warfare moved into a new generation.