Israeli company develops system for creating synthetic characters

Hour One was founded in 2019 by Oren Aharon and Lior Hakim. Its system is capable of turning any person into a synthetic character, the company says

 (photo credit: YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT)
(photo credit: YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT)
 According to a report by the Geektime website, Israel's Hour One company has raised $5 million. The company is developing a system that is capable of creating realistic characters that can replace real people in videos. It is a positive utilization of "deepfake" technologies for marketing or public relations.   

The company’s system can take any person and turn them into what the company calls a "synthetic character". After scanning, you can dictate the character to do whatever you want (all in good taste, of course) in the cloud environment, and immediately create videos with the “synthetic character” reading from a prompter as if it was real. If you want, you can also choose from over 100 pre-made characters that come with the system, according to the report. 

Hour One, which was established in 2019 by Oren Aharon, the company's CEO, and Lior Hakim, its CTO, employs 10 people who mostly work in Israel. 

A video created by the company can be seen here.