(Bad lip sync remains a horrible problem in Second Life, not to mention other MMOs/machinima platforms.) As it happens, Philip and I were just e-mailing about how live music performance can be a compelling thing in virtual reality, so this video is a case study of that.
(Serim worked on Monsters University, Cars 2, Brave, and Toy Story 3 there.) The facial animations are more than enough to convey emotion, and the lip sync is just about perfect. The avatar herself sort of looks like a character in a Pixar movie, and that's no surprise: The facial animations were created by High Fidelity's Ozan Serim, who was a longtime manager at Pixar, before joining Philip's company. The singer is actually High Fidelity's Emily Donald (who has a lovely voice), and the avatar is imitating her actual face and lip movements as tracked via a PC camera pointed at her, and in near real time.
Philip Rosedale just sent me this new video demo of an avatar singing Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" in High Fidelity, his Oculus Rift-compatible virtual world, and if you know all the art and technology behind it, you'll think it's pretty cool:
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