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Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) News: Week Ending 01/19/2024

January 20, 2024

Augmented and Virtual Reality News (AR/VR)

Flying a radio-controlled jet with VR headtracking is kinda genius.

As it turns out, reality has really good graphics.

Flying a radio-controlled jet with VR headtracking is kinda genius.

As it turns out, reality has really good graphics.

Video credit: @Jays_rcgarage pic.twitter.com/pMhg5GyrhE
— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) January 18, 2024

Metaverse Platform Roblox Now Has More Monthly Active Users Than The United States Has People (According To RTrack)

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2024/01/roblox-mau-2024.html

What’s GARField? Group Anything with Radiance Fields! The groupings in 3D are optimized using multi-level masks from Segment-Anything (SAM). Once trained, these groups can be *extracted* and moved around…

What's GARField? Group Anything with Radiance Fields! The groupings in 3D are optimized using multi-level masks from Segment-Anything (SAM).

Once trained, these groups can be *extracted* and moved around… pic.twitter.com/oskJjE4u5I
— Chung Min Kim (@ChungMinKim) January 19, 2024

We just finished a joint code release for CamP (https://camp-nerf.github.io) and Zip-NeRF (https://jonbarron.info/zipnerf/). As far as I know, this code is SOTA in terms of image quality (but not speed) among all the radiance field techniques out there.

We just finished a joint code release for CamP (https://t.co/F5mmr9uHct) and Zip-NeRF (https://t.co/gdkqqzFpBC). As far as I know, this code is SOTA in terms of image quality (but not speed) among all the radiance field techniques out there. Have fun! https://t.co/xb5irSyHY0 pic.twitter.com/zG3BSrgK3P
— Jon Barron (@jon_barron) January 19, 2024

Disney Plus joins forces with Apple to beam 3D movies into your home using Vision Pro

Disney Plus joins forces with Apple to beam 3D movies into your home using Vision Pro https://t.co/t4RE15hnbM
— Lance Ulanoff (@LanceUlanoff) January 16, 2024

Disney+ announces 3D movies coming to Apple Vision Pro:

Avatar: The Way of Water
Avengers: Endgame
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Elemental & Encanto
More Coming… pic.twitter.com/o4Mdcd1Rij
— Brian Tong (@briantong) January 16, 2024

Computer, enhance!

FMA-Net can turn blurry, low-quality videos into clear, high-quality ones by accurately predicting the degradation and restoration processes through advanced learning of motion patterns.

Computer, enhance!

FMA-Net can turn blurry, low-quality videos into clear, high-quality ones by accurately predicting the degradation and restoration processes through advanced learning of motion patterns.https://t.co/rBIMXWXrLm pic.twitter.com/gdC5mTJJ18
— Dreaming Tulpa 🥓👑 (@dreamingtulpa) January 13, 2024

Qualcomm presents HexaGen3D

StableDiffusion is just one step away from Fast and Diverse Text-to-3D Generation

HexaGen3D leverages pretrained text-to-image models to generate high-quality textured meshes in 7 seconds. Approach works well with a broad range of text prompts and generalize to new objects or object compositions not encountered during finetuning

https://huggingface.co/papers/2401.07727

Qualcomm presents HexaGen3D

StableDiffusion is just one step away from Fast and Diverse Text-to-3D Generation

paper page: https://t.co/2GHX2GIUyY

HexaGen3D leverages pretrained text-to-image models to generate high-quality textured meshes in 7 seconds. Approach works well with… pic.twitter.com/tATuDSXXCR
— AK (@_akhaliq) January 17, 2024

LumaLabs Genie iPhone app

https://apps.apple.com/in/app/luma-ai/id1615849914

Super excited to present SceneVerse! The first million-scale 3D vision-language dataset with 67,000 3D scenes. SceneVerse signatures a new era for 3D indoor scene understanding where it becomes possible to explore large 3d vision models, VL models, reconstruction models, and 3d representations at scale

Thank @_akhaliq for sharing. Super excited to present SceneVerse! The first million-scale 3D vision-language dataset with 67,000 3D scenes 🔥🔥🔥
SceneVerse signatures a new era for 3D indoor scene understanding where it becomes possible to explore large 3d vision models, VL… https://t.co/7e1NrmfKir
— Siyuan Huang (@siyuanhuang95) January 18, 2024

You can generate some pretty incredible 360º photos in Midjourney using the –tile parameter

Once upscaled in MJ & magnific the details really start to come throughhttps://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1747490329928896998

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