The faces here in the header look more "real" than unreal demo. It looks like low quality video recording of real humans. The expressions, the movement, everything looks so real.
They look _alive_ unlike plastic heads of Metahumans.
EDIT: They look real in the head banner only though. Talking to them in the online demo is not impressive at all.
They are completely different product. SoulMachines characters are 3d scanned, while MetaHumans is a generator that can generate possibly infinite amount of realistic humans. Also, I think MetaHumans characters are rendered way more realistic in terms of skin textures and materials. The textures in SoulMachines seem to have baked-in lightning.
It seems to me like the animations are better but the illusion of "real human" is not as good as the texture and models themselves are lower resolution. Especially the close up of the eyes.
Either way, both are still within the uncanny valley to my eyes. The animation of Andy Serkis reading Macbeth made me feel very uneasy.
The faces here in the header look more "real" than unreal demo. It looks like low quality video recording of real humans. The expressions, the movement, everything looks so real.
They look _alive_ unlike plastic heads of Metahumans.
EDIT: They look real in the head banner only though. Talking to them in the online demo is not impressive at all.