With lockdowns stopping massive occasions, Balenciaga held a “deep fake” fashion show in 2021. It featured clones of a real-life mannequin whose face was “photogrammetry-captured and CG-scanned.” The audience was also synthetic. The group behind Google’s Jacquard Threads can additionally be making color-shifting possible with Ebb, a color-changing fabric technology that might someday be programmed to change along with your temper or setting. MIT researchers created a system known as ColorFab 3D, which 3D prints objects with “photochromic inks” that change shade when uncovered to certain wavelengths of UV light. The retail giant depends on algorithms to predict market demand,…