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Posted by CmdrTaco from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.
pvt_medic writes "MSNBC is reporting that there soon will be a Miss Digital World Competition. "'MISS DIGITAL WORLD' is the first beauty contest for the likes of videogame heroine Lara Croft and computer-cloned actresses from the "Matrix" films and new beauties tweaked to perfection with 3D graphics." The website for the competition is still under construction at MissDigitalWorld.Com"
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  • Cortana (Score:1, Funny)

    by dubstop ( 136484 ) *
    Cortana: the thinking cyborg's digital crumpet.

  • Man, that's just cruel. (Score:5, Funny)

    by Binary Gibbon ( 413182 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @11:53AM (#7407347)
    Now we're /.ing websites that don't even EXIST yet? For chrissake, give them a chance to build the thing before you blow it into oblivion.

    Also: Wasn't the whole digital actress/lara croft meme really hip like, 5 years ago?

  • Related story on The Register (Score:5, Informative)

    by sczimme ( 603413 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @11:54AM (#7407353)

    Clicky clicky [theregister.co.uk]

    PS The story is from yesterday.

  • Is it just me... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 06, 2003 @11:55AM (#7407365)
    Is it just me or do you guys also feel weird after spanking it to an animated character?

    • Re:Is it just me... (Score:3, Insightful)

      by TrippTDF ( 513419 )
      It's not like women in porn are all that real these days anyway, between injections, implants, airbrushing, lighting, posing...

      • Re:Is it just me... (Score:5, Insightful)

        by glesga_kiss ( 596639 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @01:02PM (#7408017)
        It's not like women in porn are all that real these days anyway, between injections, implants, airbrushing, lighting, posing...

        Hey, NO women in media are real anymore. Just search for pictures of your favourate stars without makeup and/or airbrushing. They literally look like the girl next door, nothing special at all.

        When I first saw the article, that's what I thought it was anyway. All babes in the media are digital already!! God bless Photoshop!!

        • They literally look like the girl next door, nothing special at all.


          I find the girl next door to be quite special you insensitive clod!!

        • I regularly see an ad in the subway for some lame skin beauty product. It got faces of a man and a woman, edited so much that I always think of "The wonders of Photoshop" as a very suitable slogan. :)
        • It's not like women in porn are all that real these days anyway, between injections, implants, airbrushing, lighting, posing...

          From an old, but related article [turnoffyourtv.com]:
          "The Beautiful People Syndrome is attacking the psyche of television-addicted America. For a man, if you are not 6'1'', handsome and wealthy you are not ideal. Any woman who isn't bone-thin with a large chest certainly is below the standard."

          Warning, some of this article is downright silly.

          [thinks to self: "old" being from 2000. Sheesh, I
  • Cant there be some sort of pathetic slashdot poll on them? It's ot like they're real.

    There's a diference between real and fake. You can sleep with real ones. ANd until a stimsim is created, being with some fakey digital construct is out of the question

    • Remember your audience (Score:5, Funny)

      by mblase ( 200735 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @12:06PM (#7407479)
      There's a diference between real and fake. You can sleep with real ones.

      Don't presume so much about your readers' seductive abilities. This is Slashdot, after all.

    • Poor sweet innocent lad.

      If you believe that, you might want to have a peek at RealDoll [realdoll.com] (not work safe, i believe.)

      Remember, there is no problem that technology cannot solve for you!

    • Re:Umm, why? (Score:3, Insightful)

      by decipher_saint ( 72686 )
      There's a diference between real and fake. You can sleep with real ones.
      You know I said the same thing to Halle Berry the other day after a night of hot sex...

      Ok, seriously though, I think this is more about art than spankey-spankey. Just 'cause you can't have sex with the Mona Lisa or the Venus De Milo doesen't devalue them as artistic expression (of beauty).

  • Whoa... (Score:2, Interesting)

    by dukeluke ( 712001 )
    First, we have a physical Miss Universe - now we have a Miss Digital!!!

    Well, this is definitely a plus for 3d animators everywhere - finally, your work is being noticed as superb - and definitely deserving of 'human' paralleled recognition.

    Just wonder if they'll start having all the other Miss Pageants...

  • Okay (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Quasar1999 ( 520073 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @11:55AM (#7407375) Journal
    Most geeks can't get a date with the pimply faced, slightly overweight girl in his English class... What the hell are we doing holding a competition for them where they get to design the 'perfect' woman... They don't even know what the perfect woman should be... Totally Hypocritical Contest...
    • i dont agree. think of websites like amihotornot.com. it amazes me that a group of guys can sit in front of a monitor clicking through random jpegs of people, and in unison chat the same integer value 1 to 10 almost 80% of the time. And if it's not the same number all around, then it's just off by 1. Shallow? I'm not making that point. Point I'm making is that somehow the human ratbrain finds it REALLY EASY to determine how good looking someone is, and it's very consistant between different people. A
    • " What the hell are we doing holding a competition for them where they get to design the 'perfect' woman..."

      You've obviously never seen Weird Science. Trust me, you'll like the outcome.

  • Gollum, obviously... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Robert Hayden ( 58313 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @11:55AM (#7407376) Homepage
    After winning Best Virtual Character at the MTV Movie awards, there can be little doubt that Gollum will walk away with this one as well. He's such a drama queen.

    The only competition will be from Dobby, for his stunny portrayal of life in the world's oldest profession in the movie Dobby Does Dallas.
  • the sound of civilization finally collapsing into a giant, bottomless pit of despair and self-loathing.

    Oh, the pain. The pain.

  • Just like in real life (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 06, 2003 @11:56AM (#7407379)
    You're 30 minutes late for your dinner reservation and she claims she is still 'under construction.'
  • I've long held the opinion that virtual actors are the future of Hollywood. Why pay for a high-priced actor when we can whip them up online?

    And the stunts will get crazier and crazier, for sure! (And I didn't even mention pr0n...)
    • Designing a virtual actor takes quite a bit of time and money. Using virtual actors just means hiring a team of graphic artists instead of hiring an actor. Although it would give a director absolute control over the movie.

    • Only When Digital Actors Have Q-factors (Score:4, Insightful)

      by RobotRunAmok ( 595286 ) * on Thursday November 06, 2003 @12:48PM (#7407905)
      Studios do not pay actors like Jim Carrey $20M a movie because they are "good actors." They make that kind of dough because the public will pay to see a "Jim Carrey Movie" regardless of what the flick is about. How many people will pay to see "The Cat in the Hat" this winter, hoping against hope that Mike Myers will find a way to roast some gold out of that chestnut? How many would go see the same flick if a no-name actor had the lead? Now, how many (non-geeks) would go if the lead was CGI?

      Entertainers' "Q-Factors" are polled and tabulated quarterly (I think). These are the numbers that are ascribed to a celebrity's "popularity." The higher your Q, the higher fee your agent can negotiate.

      Will there someday be persistent Idoru-esque CGI AI's with their own waxing and waning Q-Factors? Maybe. Just think of the Intellectual Property battles when studios try to copyright hairstyles, quirky smiles, and "attitudes!"
      • Total agreement, and look at Shrek.

        How many big name actors are the voices there? A Bugs Life? Et cetera, Et cetera. Sports players get paid to endorse shoes, actors are there for their name as well.
      • In some ways, isn't the "Q-Factor" really just a measurement of the public's overall appreciation for a particular actor/actress? If so, that's really just indirectly paying people more based on how good of an actor/actress they are.

        For example, I think Patrick Stewart always does a respectable job when acting, and I have a good idea of the qualities he's likely to bring to any movie he stars in. (I know he's not the type to play a role of some blithering idiot, a la "Dumb and Dumber", and he can usually

  • My Nomination (Score:3, Funny)

    by turgid ( 580780 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @11:56AM (#7407382) Journal
    Here's [bbc.co.uk] my nomination, from the BBC's very own news site.

  • Age (Score:5, Funny)

    by Red Rocket ( 473003 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @11:56AM (#7407383)

    Can Zelda enter? Or is there an age limit?

    • Re:Age (Score:2)

      by jsse ( 254124 )
      Why funny? I'd like to see Zelda [angelfire.com] entering final.

      Of course, the World's standard is big boobs in tight. :)

  • I wouldn't say geek sex is hypocritical (Score:5, Funny)

    by TerryAtWork ( 598364 ) <research@aceretail.com> on Thursday November 06, 2003 @11:57AM (#7407391)
    It's more like hypoTHETical....

  • Sad? Maybe (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Aneurysm ( 680045 )
    Ok, it may seem a little sad and geeky, but I can see it pushing the realism of digital human models. It'll be a place where people can show off their amazing new techniques for realistic hair, or natural movement animation etc.

  • These should be interesting..... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Neck_of_the_Woods ( 305788 ) * on Thursday November 06, 2003 @11:59AM (#7407416) Journal

    Just what the average joe girl needs...comp from a chick made with photoshop, and a slider bar for increasing bust size.

    I can hear it now:

    Nerd "Yea she was ok, but she was eating my pizza and I could not tweak her breast any larger than a B cup."

    Geek "Well did she at least wear something that got your little Elvis to sing and dance?"

    Nerd "She really got bent when I told her she should be wearing Tia'wik Dancing Thong."

    Geek "Don't you just wish you could re-roll your honey?!"

    ---phffff!

  • Pixeleen, on the latest Steely Dan album [steelydan.com]:
    Pixeleen

    Dream deep my three-times perfect ultrateen

    Pixeleen

    Rave on my sleek and soulful cyberqueen

    Pixeleen

    Penned by a hack in the Palisades

    Backed by some guys from Columbia

    Shot all in digital video

    For a million and change

  • The movie sucked, but she was amazing to look at.
    • You probably mean Aki Ross [finalfanta...within.com]. IMHO, some of the most impressive CG work in recent history. At some points in that movie, it's easy to forget that she's not a real actress...
    • I tried watching that for the first time a few days ago on the SciFi channel. I had to turn it off after the first half hour when they they started talking about "Gaia, spirit of the earth". I am glad that I never wasted money on a ticket or video rental on that piece of garbage.

      Even so, I remember someone on the internet wrote about it months before it came out: "visuals that would make Steven Speilberg crap himself".
      100% absolutly true.
      • I tried watching that for the first time a few days ago on the SciFi channel. I had to turn it off after the first half hour when they they started talking about "Gaia, spirit of the earth". I am glad that I never wasted money on a ticket or video rental on that piece of garbage.

        You realize that they came up with a fairly original way to destroy the world. You may not appreciate it, I do.

        I'm tired of the usual nuclear, biological, and really-big-rock scenarios.

        They pushed the technology, they did it wi
    • Well, for digital CG chicks from movies, I have to say the girl from the very-similar-looking "Last Flight of the Osiris" is better than Aki.

  • Just think.... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by MoeMoe ( 659154 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @12:04PM (#7407461)
    A Miss Digital World competition should hold the same rules to the real life counterparts.... So when does the swimsuit competition start? Personally, I give my vote to the girls from DOA3...

  • Been done before (Score:4, Interesting)

    by cybermace5 ( 446439 ) <g.ryan@macetech.com> on Thursday November 06, 2003 @12:09PM (#7407506) Homepage Journal
    http://technoculture.mira.net.au/hypermail/0033.ht ml [mira.net.au]

    Don't you remember seeing the ads way back in, oh, 1995 Computer Shoppper and the like, for the "Miss Metaverse" beauty pageant? This nearly predates everything that's ever happened online.

  • I was going to post something thoughtful... (Score:3, Funny)

    by mystery_bowler ( 472698 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @12:11PM (#7407525) Homepage
    ...like some sort of discussion about how male artists submitting entries would reveal much about their psyche and their take on the "perfect" woman. It could even serve as an indicator of regionally or perhaps even racially influenced preferences.

    But instead, I'll say this:

    Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball

    One image gallery and you've got a website, MSNBC.
  • ..welcome our new impossibly-large breasted digital male-fantasy object dominatrix overloards, but am also filled with a vague sense of despair for the human race.

  • nVidia girls (Score:2, Interesting)

    by HermesHuang ( 606596 )
    The duo of Dawn and Dusk are pretty darn good. nVidia did an awesome job of setting them up, and you can even run it at home (if you sprung for their top-of-the-line graphics cards).

  • I actually like this idea (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Inexile2002 ( 540368 ) * on Thursday November 06, 2003 @12:14PM (#7407553) Homepage Journal
    I know it sounds weird and there's already lots of comments about pimply-faced geeks who can't get dates with real women - but I think this is a good idea. It lets visual artists showcase their work, it draws mainstream recognition to video games, animated movies and related media and its harmless fun.

    The show is going to be mostly a larf, there'll be some genuinely good art mixed in with some quadruple D-cupped Valkyrie farces and Jessica Rabbit-esque wannabes but all in all the really good art is the stuff that'll win. And as for the pimply faced geek who can't get a girl - what's wrong with a little harmless fantasy here and there? I had a girlfriend who was willing to dress up as Wonder Woman for me (hot damn, one of the best nights of my life) and would have done Supergirl if other factors had not intervened (I'll still get a girl to do that one day). Fantasies are harmless unless they start defining or overwhelming your sexuality.

    If they televise this show, I'll watch it, if they don't, I'll download it - I'll have a few laughs, look at some beautiful artificial women and then wistfully wish for a holodeck. No harm done.

    Oh, and I wouldn't mind seeing a slightly spruced up Kate Archer - rowr!

    • Just make sure that the bits don't get transmitted through the MidEast or Islamic controlled Africa. People will freak out, break into server rooms and start beating those evil routers. The Christians or Jews will retaliate and sooner or later someone will end up dead. If a rumor [iafrica.com] that a party was going to be a beauty pagent caused this to happen, the real thing, even if it was virtual, would probably do the same thing.

    • Re:I actually like this idea (Score:5, Funny)

      by JoeBuck ( 7947 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @02:51PM (#7409267) Homepage

      Reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon:

      Dogbert says: "I can predict the future by assuming that money and male hormones are the driving forces for new technology. Therefore when virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed."

      The last frame is dated "Year 2004" and has a woman at the door asking Dogbert, "Is Dilbert available?" to which Dogbert replies, "He's been in the Holodeck since March."

  • "They should not have taken part -- not even as extras or cameos -- in pornographic films, shows or plays nor have made statements ... in any way out of tune with the moral spirit of the competition," organizers said.

    Well that sure limits the field.

  • There can be only one! (Score:3, Funny)

    by rsfpc ( 717694 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @12:18PM (#7407578) Homepage
    All of the obvious answers aside... Maybe Grace wouldn't win the swim suite competition, but if any lady is Queen of the digital realm, it's surely her. http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Hopper.Danis.html [vt.edu]
  • "I never had a girl before
    With much of a figure
    So excuse me if I start to play
    With your digital display"

    Lyrics for Digital Display (Extended Version) - Ready For The World [geocities.com]

    Personally I think that a Digital Miss World site is just going to be a 'one-handed computing' site.

  • The Reigning Queen (for nearly a century...) (Score:4, Funny)

    by RobotRunAmok ( 595286 ) * on Thursday November 06, 2003 @12:25PM (#7407631)
    ...is Brigette Helm, who played Maria and (my all-time favorite terminatrix) "False Maria" [themakeupgallery.info] in Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." [suntimes.com]
  • It seems to me that the award should either go to the woman that the character was modeled after, or to the pixel image's creator where the pixel image is the most "perfect" woman, which I would argue should go back to that "snakes" game, where the girl snake was just a pink dot, if you want to talk about the most artistically perfect rendering. If it's about a portrait likeness, though, the real award should be to the beauty of the person represented, not to the sprite.

  • This already exists (Score:3, Insightful)

    by signe ( 64498 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @12:38PM (#7407772) Homepage
    So this is a competition for women who:
    • have bodies which are artificially created or altered
    • require excessive amounts of money to support
    • are of fairly low intelligence
    • have no connection with reality


    We already have one of those. It's called "Miss America". Silicon, silicone. It's only off by one letter.

    -Todd
  • The woman in the red dress should enter, natch.

  • News Flash! (Score:5, Funny)

    by El Camino SS ( 264212 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @12:47PM (#7407879)
    >>>>>>

    DAYLOG (2/2/04 Early)
    Feb. 2nd, 2004-

    (Reuters)- Miss Digital World deletes herself after nude photo appears to press.

    Internet Police today say they found the hard drive space where Aki Ross's Body has been found. Ross, crowned Miss Digital World, disappeared after winning the title, when the controversial website www.akirossnude.com opened up days after her crowning. Police say that members of Ross's development team could not find her anywhere. Police started the investigation moments after members of SquareSoft said she was missing, and was no longer found in the backups.

    Police and authorities found Ross several days later in an abandoned and dilapidated part of an ancient server farm, the victim of an apparent self-inflicted deletion. CSI was dispatched to the server, but said there was little to investigate, as much of her was already overwritten. The lone artifact of her deletion was a READ ME file she left, explaining the pain of her nude renders had caused her, and that she never imagined that something so innocent in the early parts of her film career would come back against her later.

    Aki Ross was four years old. Her film credits include Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and nothing else. The other cast members of Final Fantasy could not be reached for comment.

    >>

  • Miss? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Avumede ( 111087 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @12:47PM (#7407887) Homepage
    How do we know they aren't virtually married?
  • Aki.

    I almost hate to admit it, but she's REALLY damn cute.

  • Ooh! (Score:2)

    by Greyfox ( 87712 )
    I nominate Big Bertha (Is that her name?) from Futurama! You know, the robot on the moon that Bender got caught with in episode 2. She was a contender for Miss Universe, after all...

  • Digital Women as Drugs? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by handy_vandal ( 606174 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @01:00PM (#7407999) Homepage Journal
    ... new beauties tweaked to perfection ...

    Designer drugs?

    -kgj

  • Yahoo Story - with picture (Score:4, Informative)

    by msheppard ( 150231 ) on Thursday November 06, 2003 @01:13PM (#7408113) Homepage Journal
    Here's a yahoo version of the story [yahoo.com] - with a picture of a virtual hotty

    M@
  • I nominate Six [scifi.com] from the new animated series "Tripping the Rift". Premeires January, 2004 on the Sci-Fi channel.
    • I remember downloading Tripping the Rift in about 1998. (Just checked the wayback machine [archive.org]. Yep, I remembered correctly.) I've seen ads for it recently so it is the same character for the tv show, but what I downloaded was not even close to being appropriate for television.
  • The NVidia "Dusk" [nvidia.com] , "Dawn" [nvidia.com] , and Cmdr Taco [nvidia.com] pixies.

    Oops! Did I just flush my karma cache? Damn!

  • to get hold of when they win their lawsuit against Apple for stealing their name..

  • ReBoot did it first (Score:2, Interesting)

    by mav.rc ( 227519 )
    I mean, come on! Dot Matrix, Mouse, and who can forget AndrAIa in Season 3 & 4? If AndrAIa [codedaemon.com] isn't in this contest, then it isn't worth anything.
  • myself. [nervalhi.net]

    ::posing for the people::

    First I steal the hearts of otaku-dom, then I win the hearts of lonely nerds. Soon I will have an army of freaks by the balls with which I will RULE THE WORLD!!!

    So, please, vote for me.

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