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Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) News: Week Ending 02/16/2024

February 26, 2024

Apple Vision Pro

“Imagine having this in a Tesla with the Apple Vision Pro. You’re visualizing a crystal-clear fusion of the sensor streams from the car—effectively allowing you to “see through” the car and reveal a 4D world that you can explore, interact with, and get stuff done in the real… https://t.co/iVY23t5YRV” / X – https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1756482915792203890

“Introducing @MagicRoomApp – transform your space with the magic of realtime meshes on Vision Pro 🧙 https://t.co/tJOwRuCpuV” / X – https://twitter.com/tracy__henry/status/1758892040690311502

“Something big’s in the works 🚀 Shapr3D on Vision Pro is on the way! Check out what editing CAD on Vision Pro actually looks like. Let us know what you think. More details: https://t.co/XzLOfWuZ1X #Shapr3D #AppleVisionPro https://t.co/BhH9CfOYdS” / X – https://twitter.com/Shapr3D/status/1758155141444755966

“Professional benchmarks of the Vision Pro versus other headsets are starting to come out from companies like @OptoFidelity Here they show how Apple’s advertised “photon-to-photon” latency isn’t fake. And actually much better than the competition https://t.co/WUJbwxDnFI” / X – https://twitter.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/1757899495700840776

“I’ve made really good progress on my MIDI Widgets app for Vision Pro this week, with a little push I might be able to release it by the end of next week. Here’s an overview video of what it currently does. Curious to hear your thoughts! #visionpro #spatialcomputing… https://t.co/8miA9QZnh1” / X – https://twitter.com/gbevin/status/1756793079707631850

Segmentation/Depth

“Depth Anything：把图片和视频转化成深度图字节推出的模型，效果非常好，实际效果见视频。项目地址：https://t.co/QHbp8tPQbC 处理视频的在线体验：https://t.co/ROdrmoIF2G 处理图片的在线体验：https://t.co/hnuxjjQoWM Github：https://t.co/76X2Cv7Tb8 https://t.co/mGc3l1wFbs” / X – https://twitter.com/Gorden_Sun/status/1757046907917275608

“CVPR 2007 Best Paper Award Dynamic 3D Scene Analysis from a Moving Vehicles B. Leibe, N. Cornelis, K. Cornelis, L. Van Gool #TBThursday https://t.co/weeChSRYJk” / X – https://twitter.com/CVPR/status/1758129034008154401

“TikTok presents Boximator! This method can generate rich and controllable motions for image-to-video generations by drawing box constraints and motion paths onto an image and combining it with a prompt: “A girl in red is covering her face with a skull.” 10 crazy examples: https://t.co/Jy3op9BEdB” / X – https://twitter.com/dreamingtulpa/status/1756965825657925967

Brilliant Glasses

“What if your glasses gave you AI superpowers? This is Frame, a reinvention of eyewear for the AI era Learn more @ https://t.co/Z9CgZL3ssC https://t.co/5hVz7bBLSk” / X – https://twitter.com/brilliantlabsAR/status/1755606350355435815

“Brilliant Labs Made Open Source AR Glasses with AI! https://t.co/fqdDBI7tZQ via @YouTube” / X – https://twitter.com/brilliantlabsAR/status/1758112280661922000

Brilliant Labs – https://brilliant.xyz/ (continued from last week)

Other AR/VR News

“Manu ran a Sora video through Luma and brought the Splat into Unity @ManuVision https://t.co/mBIodZ8E1M” / X – https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1758741192177525143

“It was a privilege to work on this epic project to make teleportation a reality and enable 3D vibe checks inside Google Maps. Fusing imagery, lots of geo data and ML pipelines, NeRFs, real-time rendering, simulations, cloud streaming, and a killer team: https://t.co/8OqpJJariH” / X – https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1757450599426093557

“We got an exclusive look at the 3D aerial cameras used to build Google Maps’ new Immersive View feature, which shows a realistic view of your route, as well as traffic and weather conditions. https://t.co/y4Q75DB9pH” / X – https://twitter.com/CNET/status/1757060490654826985

“Apple presents Keyframer Empowering Animation Design using Large Language Models paper page: https://t.co/eknHMpxWBG Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to impact a wide range of creative domains, but the application of LLMs to animation is underexplored and… https://t.co/xgNlTxaDWu” / X – https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1756867429047640065

“$NEXCF $NTAR launches a GPT AI Suite of a dozen 3D-AI solutions to lead the companies growth. https://t.co/z8BTAOosoE #Nextech #GPT #AI #3D #AI #EmergingTech” / X – https://twitter.com/Nextech_AR/status/1758130515897430196

Bigscreen Beyond – The world’s smallest VR headset – https://www.bigscreenvr.com/

Visor – https://www.visor.com/

With Disney’s magic, Fortnite is poised to win the metaverse | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/09/epic-games-disney-fortnite-metaverse/

Microsoft tests Windows 11 ‘Super Resolution’ AI-upscaling for gamers – https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-tests-windows-11-super-resolution-ai-upscaling-for-gamers/

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AI News #20: Week Ending 02/16/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 39 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.