Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)

See the Apple category for Vision Pro updates this week

Also see Segmentation and Science, and Vision/Multimodality.

“Btw – the convergence of AI and XR/spatial computing is only just beginning – it will be insane. An age of magic (and my thesis for why I started Magic Leap). The killer app for XR will be AI. AI will integrate into all parts of computing and media, and computing itself will flow…” / X – https://twitter.com/rabovitz/status/1754905003746005028

AR/VR = Reality “I just 3D printed this wolf. The model was completely made with AI. I didn’t clean it up in Blender or anything. Text-to-3d in @MeshyAI, export as .stl, and straight into my slicer for printing. I’m actually really impressed with how it came out. https://t.co/6uAdAKb2xi” / X – https://twitter.com/mreflow/status/1755702162087465428

Introducing General World Models. – https://research.runwayml.com/introducing-general-world-models

Disney to take $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games, maker of Fortnite – https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/07/disney-to-take-1point5-billion-stake-in-epic-games-maker-of-fortnite.html

Disney invests $1.5B in Epic Games, plans new “games and entertainment universe” | Ars Technica – https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/epic-working-with-disney-on-new-gaming-universe-after-1-5b-investment/

“MidJourney hired an engineer from Apple Vision Pro to be “Head of Hardware”. My best guess is that they are thinking about generating full synthetic worlds for AR/VR, because of their rumored works on text-to-3D. Data-driven simulation is a hot topic at NVIDIA and very dear to my… https://t.co/CQyJymW1Up” / X – https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1754558101829881893

Touchdown! StatusPRO wins $20M Series A for VR simulation gaming platform – Refresh Miami – https://refreshmiami.com/touchdown-statuspro-wins-20m-series-a-for-vr-simulation-gaming-platform/

“🚀 Introducing Meshy-2, our latest release, brings significant enhancements in model quality and user experience, taking text to 3D to a whole new level! 🌈 Enjoy diverse art styles, enhanced geometry and texture details, convenient mesh settings, and more! ✨ Try it now at… https://t.co/3PyAvwoRef” / X – https://twitter.com/MeshyAI/status/1754623111947854251

“4D Gaussian Splatting: Towards Efficient Novel View Synthesis for Dynamic Scenes Yuanxing Duan, Fangyin Wei, Qiyu Dai, Yuhang He, Wenzheng Chen, Baoquan Chen tl;dr: 4D spatial-temporal Gaussian ellipsoids sliced with different time queries->3D dynamics https://t.co/4dGV2axnGA https://t.co/lvKF9co08P” / X – https://twitter.com/zhenjun_zhao/status/1755148156797329762

CapHuman: Capture Your Moments in Parallel Universes – https://caphuman.github.io/
On Spatial Computing, Metaverse, the Terms Left Behind and Ideas Renewed — MatthewBall.co – https://www.matthewball.vc/all/metaversespatialandmore

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