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Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) News: Week Ending 01/26/2024

Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR)

Amazon presents Diffuse to Choose

Enriching Image Conditioned Inpainting in Latent Diffusion Models for Virtual Try-All

Diffuse to Choose (DTC) allows users to virtually place any e-commerce item in any setting, ensuring detailed, semantically coherent blending with realistic lighting and shadows.

This is the first time I felt a game engine demo cross the uncanny valley (this one got a “wow” from Elon)

Disney Holotile Omnidirectional VR Floor Treadmill

Disney offers an elegant solution to VR’s movement problem

TikTok has released Depth Anything

An image-based depth estimation method trained on 1.5M labeled images and 62M+ unlabeled images

5 awesome examples, code, and image demo below:

Video trailer of JigSpace for Vision Pro

Super excited to announce our new work: Synthesizing Moving People with 3D Control (3DHM)💡

Why is 3DHM unique?

With 3D Control, 3DHM can animate a 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗺 human photo with 𝗮𝗻𝘆 poses in a 𝟯𝟲𝟬-𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲 camera view and 𝗮𝗻𝘆 camera azimuths from 𝗮𝗻𝘆 video!

Exposing the lattice behind an incredibly detail AR video of an undersea scene

Recently published paper from researchers at Meta: Mosaic-SDF for 3D Generative Models.

We introduce Mosaic-SDF (M-SDF), a simple novel 3D shape representation for generative models. M-SDF approximates an arbitrary Signed Distance Function with a set of small volumetric grids with different centers and scales.

NerfStudio 1.0 Launched

* New splatfacto model, nerfstudio’s implementation of Gaussian splatting

* Complete rewrite of the viewer, now built entirely on viser

The #GTC24 session catalog is officially open. 🙌

Browse the #NVIDIAOmniverse sessions and add your favorites to your schedule: https://nvda.ws/42aICgF

Text-to-3D Foundation Model

We are excited to announce #3DTopia, a generalist text-to-3D foundation model, which produces ** high-quality 3D assets within 5 minutes **

A New Era of Immersive Sports Viewing is Coming to Your Living Room with #AppleVisionPro & the New Vision App by PGATOUR

 AR/VR Mapping of Retail Spaces

A new Depth Detection AI model dropped yesterday and transformers.js lets you run it locally, in the freakin’ browser.  I’ll post a vid tomorrow, but you can see the AI generated depth map in the left corner, which I then use in Three.js

Mahjong Space v1.0.1* approved by Apple and go for launch day on VisionPro.

Enjoy multiplayer Mahjong over SharePlay with friends, or learn to play via tutorial mode & single-player practice matches against AI opponents.

In an Apple Vision Pro world, the viewing experience for telemetry-rich sports like Formula 1 can transform dramaticallyhttps://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1749552759651684367

Be Sure To Read “This Week In AI”

This week’s executive overview and top links are here:

AI News #17: Week Ending 01/26/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 12 Stories

The post you just read is an extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

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One response to “Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) News: Week Ending 01/26/2024”

  1. AI News #17: Week Ending 01/26/2024 with Executive Summary and Top-12 Stories – Ethan B. Holland

    […] Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) News of the Week:Augmented reality is when you see images or information on top of the real world.  A car windshield with a heads-up display of the speed. Or glasses that have facial recognition and overlay the names of everyone in view. Virtual reality is when you are transported into another place, usually wearing goggles, but a flight simulator could also be considered virtual reality.This weeks’s latest AR/VR news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/02/05/augmented-and-virtual-reality-ar-vr-news-week-ending-01-26-2024… […]

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