Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time(thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com) |
Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time(thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com) |
Edit: I opened up the dev tools, and did not see the typical HLS style segments. I saw several MP4 files intro/outro/etc. They could still have the segments ready to go, serve up the intro to buy time for the server to ```ffmpeg -i time.mp4 -c:v copy -c:a copy output.mp4``` type of thing before serving to you
My browser fetched
https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi...
which is for 1:54.
https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi...
I started the video very close to 9:02 but was still 9:01, when the time was displayed on the video, it was actually 9:02, so I'm guessing they don't displayed the time of when the video started, but instead they display the exact time it should be when the time is displayed.
If you could change the position, this would break the affect, I can't pause either.
I'm not sure what was better 20 years ago in terms of mainstream movies. The two biggest films of the year were book adaptions, the next two were CGI cartoons for kids, and the last of the top five was a remake of a movie from the 60s.
Maybe it was the million other straws underneath it.
Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1053/
It's that there hasn't been:
1. anything new since sometime in the 1990s
2. any dominant form in any of them since the 1990s
The usual angle is something like: consider hairstyles. Find pictures of popular hairstyles from the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s and so forth, and they will be highly correlated with the decade they were popular in. Now look at hairstyles from the 90s, the aughts, the tens: you will have no idea idea when the hairstyle was popular, because ... it wasn't. In fashion these days, "anything goes", and the same applies to all these other things. At least, that's the claim of this view.
I'm not 100% certain I agree with it, but it does seem to contain a kernel of truth.
In https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/commons/a...
The client side generates an unobfuscated string such as:
red-a-b1-c1435-d-e2-f-g3-h2-i
where 1435 is the current local time (search for `key: "teaserSrcProps"` in the code to find the relevant function)
Then "17" is prepended to that string ("BOND_OBFUSCATION_SALT" in the source code), and then the video file name is simply the MD5 of the string.
To find the video URL:
// change 1435 for any HHMM time
timeStr = "red-a-b1-c1435-d-e2-f-g3-h2-i"
videoFile = MD5("17" + timeStr) + ".mp4"
url = "https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/high/" + videoFile
---
All 1440 red pill video URLs (tested all of them in bulk without downloading any using `wget --spider -i allurls.txt` — spider is a cool option!):
https://gist.github.com/gregsadetsky/cb4754d123f0ea1eae26820...
Then the "generated" folder made me think, and i decided to test it a bit more, so i started the experience at 15:00 and 35 seconds, just the right amount to get to the time reveal just after the clock change, and i was blown away, the video shows 15:01 and not 15:00 as i expected, whatever they are doing here to replace the video at the exact time without us noticing it is quite crazy.
For a user who’s clock changes midplay, you would simply check the time with seconds before choosing the video to render, if it’s MM:35 or after you would play the MM+1 video instead of MM
So yes you’re right, they do take that (minute changes while watching the video) into account!
There's "only" 1440 combinations and the site is going to get a lot more views than that so why bother re-rendering everything dynamically?
https://gist.github.com/EriksRemess/62f946bda713da80c7905d1c...
I didn’t go into that but I should have mentioned it. There are also multiple resolutions for the videos…! It’s truly 1440 videos times all of the options…!
Have you have been able to decode what the b, e, g and h options mean?
Are you saying that the video files should have been cached, or..?
Thanks
What if you’re never really sure you exited the simulation? LOL
When you’re dreaming, you often think you’re awake. But when you’re awake, you KNOW it. How?
There is a scene where humans have jacked in to a machine using cables and there is some conversation which leads to the line “To a machine, every input is artificial.”
There’s nothing stopping more layers of simulations outside the ones we’ve seen already. (Except, of course: lack of mass market appeal)
Is this the case, or is it just that when you're dreaming, you don't usually think to ask yourself whether you're dreaming or awake? (And when you do, you either become lucid or wake up?)
i think its interesting that they chose the pre-rendered approach to this. pre-rendered and FMV is a very interesting space right now. there seems to be a revival stirring. take for example "at dead of night." its a horror game thats pre-rendered and uses FMV and does it perfectly to stunning effect. people liked it, markipliers lets play got something like 7M views IIRC. and the previous game by that same person was a full FMV murder mystery game and it is very compelling indeed. nobody has seen these concepts fleshed out in the modern world where storage is dirt cheap and video games are taken seriously. new life is going to be breathed into these concepts and i think it will be very exciting.
I was in an open plan office at the time of about 30 desks. Every single one of the machines had this screen saver running.
Overall, the page is an ad for the new Matrix movies, a teaser for some upcoming trailer. It's a white screen showing a red pill on the left and a blue pill on the right. You click on one of the pills and a video starts streaming with a voice over, a-la one of Morpheus' speeches from the original. As you see the green "matrix digital rain" falling, you'll hear the same voice over per-pill each time, with both indicating something along the lines of "are you sure about what you know?" and right after that opening voice line the video will show the current time (very seamlessly, so it seems like it's always been a part of the video) and the actor doing the voice-over says the time right then.
In my case it was 10:59am when I played the video, so the overall effect was like this:
"Are you sure you know what you know?" ( <- paraphrasing)
Cut to large swooshing graphic of
the numbers "10:59" as the voice
actor says "ten fifty nine a.m."
Then the rest of the teaser plays.
We're not far from emotive TTS + photo realistic rendering in a real time engine, potentially with neurally generated models to match real time events or camera input.
Matrix 5 will be this, but you'll be in the trailer, and it'll reference real world events. And that's just the start.
The future of audio and video is going to be crazy.
https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/videos/qu...
Did you download it by any chance?
Their previous work: https://www.rga.com/work/case-studies/dupont-a-better-now
The idea that it is good to be unmoored from our senses and experiences in favour of filtering them through this flavour of intellectual dissociation seems unhealthy. When I think of the artists behind it, if you are invested in someone's happiness, "red-pilling" them is not generous or sharing, it's self interested and adding company to misery, and I am doubting that this is art by people actuated by the wellbeing of others.
11:10am https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi...
11:12am https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi...
Both videos are the full trailer, and still work after the minute is over.
There's a story about the lady who recorded Siri's voice, the engineers figured out what noises she had to make to cover all syllables. Considering Siri also speaks several languages...
I really hope this doesn't turn out to foreshadow the movie as a whole.
Tool: https://agmm.xyz/matrix
There are a lot of more variations than these, but is enough for what it is
https://gist.github.com/gil0mendes/398550cba7c96cb291b76cc41...
(Not to mention the simple fact that neither Wachowski has made anything good since the first Matrix.)
:)
Google is able to detect my time, why cant the matrix?
I was genuinely curious as to which time field it was picking up in my browser - I suspect it is ignoring daylight savings time offset? Got downvotes instead so wtf would I know!
http://rezmason.github.io/matrix
http://rezmason.github.io/matrix/?volumetric=true
Forks, pull requests and feedback welcome! :)
By the way on the videos in the original post, they look extremely similar to your volumetric one! I know yours predates it - maybe you inspired the volumetric design in the new trailers!
http://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/videos/tea...
I've tried all the new ones and haven't found any that seem half-decent. Anyone know of any advancements in this sector?
I also find it quite rude since morpheus is arguably the most (after neo, of course) representative character of the franchise.
https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi...
Hugo Weaving was on fire as Agent Smith in The Matrix. One of the best performances I've ever seen. The interrogation room at the beginning, and the desperation with Morpheus at the end, are just pure perfection. This movie is going to suck unless they can figure out a new villain half as good as Agent Smith in Matrix 1.
>Hugo Weaving, who starred in the franchise as Agent Smith, was originally approached to reprise his role, but he had scheduling conflicts with his involvement in Tony Kushner's theatrical adaptation of The Visit, leading Wachowski to conclude that the dates would not work after staying in touch with Weaving for a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Resurrections
Fishburne wasn't even contacted.
The last two movies just aren't that great. They aren't terrible, but they leave a lot to be desired. The second movie is fine, it gives us a lot of cool ideas, but the pacing is a bit off. It tries hard to manage being a cool sci-fi movie all about the concepts and an action movie. They just don't nail the balance, but it's not a complete miss as a blockbuster movie.
The third movie is where things really fall off. Everything setup in the second movie is ruined with this movie. They are balancing too many things; The Matrix world and the real world all with multiple subplots, and the concepts with the characters and action. They try to force in new characters that don't have any time to really develop, so we don't really care. And the last fight scene is just a bit dumb and the CGI is pretty bad. It's really just a lazy ending and fan pandering trying to capture the fight scene from the first movie. And because this is tying up the stuff we get in the second movie, it just makes all the cool stuff of that one sort of lackluster.
I won't flame you for liking all three, that's the joy of art. But I think people also have reasonable criticisms of the trilogy overall.
Anyhow I have rewatched all 3 a month ago. I was surprised how good 3rd one actually is. Now I am of opinion that all 3 are good.
Don't know what it is, probably I watching it through the prism of philosophical questions, the free will and whatnot. And also lore of the world. There are many details and hints in dialogues that you might missed, but explain quite a bit.
That said, nobody asked for Matrix 4, self contained story + neo and trinity dead. I am very sceptical about it. Ill watch it only if reviews are ok.
I think there's been both qualitative and quantitative changes to American pop culture. Today's audience is able to handle more sophisticated or just convoluted complex narrative structures than in the past. From comic book cinematic universes to Christopher Nolan's gimmicks, we've come along way from straightforward standalone popcorn films. Now even dumb action movies have to be not just a sequel but intertextual, living within a cohesive fictional space. Everyone knows what "canon" refers to and most know common tropes. (Speaking of R&M, that show seems to be an example of running out of tropes to the extent of burning itself out, imploding into bigger and more meaningless reveals.)
That's also because of quantity. We've simply got too much content, across both films but TV shows, games, tie-in novels, comic books, and other media. Merchandising has been huge since the original Star Wars, but now every franchise has a Wiki and dedicated scholars. It's a whole new level of meta. Maybe that's the only way we can handle the scale of content we are bombarded by; to try to fit them together into cohesive contexts.
I don't know what that means for us as a society or as a culture, but I do note that The Matrix, or at least its sequels, helped to accelerate this process. Back in 2003, the series had both the Animatrix animated shorts and the Enter the Matrix video game that added to the story depicted on-screen, even introducing key characters that movie-only viewers would be confused by (such as the Kid).
I would say that dense intertextuality and cross-media world-building, not so much the Gnostic question your reality themes (which are old hat now), is the current defining legacy of The Matrix.
> ... convoluted complex narrative structures than in the past.
You've got to be kidding...
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“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained”
The lesson therefore of Hollywood is don't believe the hype.
Few interesting things about that file:
- that video has a higher bitrate -- ffprobe shows 4338 kb/s, which is probably an average value. One of the "regular" MD5-named videos I tried has 2256 kb/s as its bitrate
- the resolution of the file is the same as the regular MD5-encoded filename videos i.e. 1080p
- as the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448361 comment mentions, it does have WB watermarks
- the Internet Archive grabbed 4 similarly non-MD5-named videos in total:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://thechoiceisyours.whati...
(I can't link to the list of files directly because the asterisk in the URL breaks HN formatting -- follow the "Click here to search for all archived pages under" link)
- The 7000k/12000k values in those URLs do correspond to bitrate. The 12000k video (downloadable from the archive.org link above) has an average bitrate of 6131 kb/s. It also has watermarks.
One of the simplest methods was to look for a clock. Look away, and see if it changes. The realization of "hmm, I should find a clock" making them appear on every street light and building. Wasn't always the obvious indication of a dream it might sound like. Instead leading to a very confused dream wondering if reality always looked that way.
It worked really well taking the Hobbit trilogy down to a single watchable movie.
But while conceptually easy to do this, I've never seen other streaming servers do this, certainly not open source ones. And of course the most obvious, simplest way is to just pre-render a bunch of static files and serve using a dumb HTTP server.
https://gist.github.com/gregsadetsky/cb4754d123f0ea1eae26820...
May have be generated dynamically on the fly (probably programmatically editing / splicing the vids), but the developers, knowing that some people were going save the URLs, cache what's generated for a time so you can access it again without the expense of regen (also splicing in the different clips).
I'm just speculating though. It's part of what makes this promo really cool.
I'd love to see a breakdown. As promo sites go, it's very smart.
I don’t think that we have definitive proof that the video files are not being generated every time, but most evidence points to that. (There might be some metadata in the mp4 that could help resolve this more definitely)
Considering the complexity of doing on the fly video splicing (even if the results are cached) vs the ability for big studios like WB to do the splicing offline in a controlled environment that they’re used to, it’s probably safe-ish to assume everything was generated in advance.
It also definitely helps with QA - you can be more sure that the splicing worked if you can test some/any/all files before serving them via CloudFront vs relying on a complex-enough piece of tech.
A breakdown of the tech behind this from WB would be interesting to read for sure!
Cheers
Original video file name: blue-a-b1-c1234-d-e1-f-g1-h1-i
which is this url: https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi...
Another video file name: blue-a-b3-c0555-d-e3-f-g3-h3-i
which is this url: https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi...
Notice the differences due to the b, e, g and h values:
- at 0:13 the video is different
- at 0:18 the video is different
- at 0:23 the displayed time is different (12:34 versus 5:55)
- at 0:35 the video is different
- at 0:39 the video is different
- at 0:42 the video is different
---
This is also really helpful to see all of the clips :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeRmoU7VxIA
Found on https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/pjww65/whatismatrix...
And you can try the alpha of "version 2" by visiting this, which has improvements in synthesis and vocoder quality, and also lets people contribute:
This is far from state of the art, but you can see at the other end of the spectrum that it's an easy toy that anybody can use.
I'm working on a photo -> 3D rigged model system and model style transfer. You can follow me on Twitch or Twitter to see that when it's ready.
https://vo.codes/tts/result/TR:s1rj02g34ppc7bhq1m8bf6p3thny6
A few areas for improvement in the clip you posted:
I need to add better duration estimation. It's unfortunately truncated.
A lot of the community-trained voices don't fully leverage phonetic annotation, so some of the words fall flat.
I think the synthesizer has too much noise in it (you can see this in the image). The person who trained it probably used noisy data.
Finally, the universal vocoder isn't handling James Earl Jones' deep voice very well. It should be fine tuned.
From the stand point of "Morpheus sacrificed himself for Neo", that's a good story, even if very few players were around for the game event where that happened "on screen". I think its a pretty decent excuse for "Morpheus isn't involved in Matrix 4" even if I do hope that they find a way somehow to tell that story in a better way than "well if you look for the right YouTuber you might get an okay retelling of what playing The Matrix Online was like" and/or compilations of the live events cutscenes. (Related aside: Owning what was once the developer Monolith, Warnermedia should own all of the assets of The Matrix Online, except maybe remaining clauses in publishing contracts with Sega/Sony/what is today Daybreak. I wonder if some sort of F2P revival might have been an interesting marketing plan for Matrix 4.)
I don't have any direct theories on Trinity's return. There's rumors about where Matrix Online's storyline was supposed to go before the game was shutdown, of course, but rumors of a storyline and events that didn't even happen are certainly non-canon. I am of course very curious to see how they address it.
¹https://www.gamespot.com/articles/matrix-4-hugo-weaving-spea...
Tbh my impression is there was some genius ghost writing done by one or multiple individuals on Matrix 1, which as per Hollywood rule, is never to be acknowledged (this happens all the time). The Wachowskis are now stuck in this weird loop of making films that are not as good as that one while having far more than enough opportunities to do it at this point.
You can use the "density" URL variable to multiply the number of volumetric raindrops, like so:
https://rezmason.github.io/matrix/?volumetric=true&density=3...
The full list of parameters is in the README.md at:
https://github.com/Rezmason/matrix#readme
The similarities you point out are probably because of my recovery of the original font, which is also in the repo, and may soon need some expansion :D
Something like this should do the trick.
Neo is a 'god' in the matrix and yet movie avoids 'I'll just punch everyone, so why bother doing something clever'.
The scenes with key-maker escaping are really tense, and neo was cleverly outsmarted to be removed from the chase.
Reloaded, the cerebral philosophical expository arc. And then Revolutions, just guns and fists a-blazin'.
Nuanced, scify, full of smart details or mind bending films are not new.
In fact, it's really hard to innovate now, because so much as already being covered.
NVM, I looked it up for you: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1985/
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv...
I thought I'd seen an earlier discussion on a mailing list or something but can't find it now.
I remember coming up with an idea, which I thought was original, of us being in a simulation where all our life choices are just training an AI advertising engine that then targets "real" humans, and then later came across this revelation about The Matrix, and of course it'd already been thought of.
I guess you forgot about the animated series.
Math.floor(Math.random() * 3) + 1
edit: b, e, g, h are different segments included. So all unique segments are in these videos:
blue-a-b1-c0000-d-e1-f-g1-h1-i 1f3dbdfd6a7c3d574b6b9eb8d07a3567.mp4
blue-a-b2-c0000-d-e2-f-g2-h2-i 241eb47071c89d8f18b0948763d6389a.mp4
blue-a-b3-c0000-d-e3-f-g3-h3-i 498ec3ba6719291e77b2a8870c744bdf.mp4
red-a-b1-c0000-d-e1-f-g1-h1-i ea2222b8b7a5c72396f76d65cf56890a.mp4
red-a-b2-c0000-d-e2-f-g2-h2-i bac726340f5486d9e02942c243e5b56b.mp4
red-a-b3-c0000-d-e3-f-g3-h3-i ce1aef26388b49562eab495b597e8fbc.mp4
So 1440 per-minute videos * 2 pill colors (red/blue) * 3^4 segments (1..3 values for each b, e, g, h argument) * 2 video qualities (high/low)!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448361
Having looked at it a bit more, I only see "low" and "high" mentioned as qualities. You can replace "high" with "low" in the list of URLs I included (see my gist, posted above) and they seem to work e.g.,
https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/lo...
There is an intriguing list in the source code though:
["4000k", "5000k", "6000k", "7000k", "8000k", "9000k", "12000k", "15000k"]
h = ["high", "low"]
So b1 g2 for example might be possible, but b2 g1 might not exist?
i.e. are values truly random / uniformly distributed?