Ethan B. Holland

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Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) News: Week Ending 02/23/2024

March 2, 2024

“Forget physics. Wake me up when Sora (or any other AI model) can do this… This is almost indistinguishable from reality 🤯 Created using Blender, Unreal Engine, Maya, Substance 3D Painter, and Nuke, using 22 UDIMs at 4K resolution by the talented Petter Steen. https://t.co/WSO8O0x8gM” / X – https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1759366020110909531

“The NBA teased an ‘NB-AI’, which will transform live games into personalized experiences from voice. Examples include turning a highlight into a fan’s favorite movie scene. As a major fan of both AI and the NBA, I feel like this is unnecessary, LOL. https://t.co/FPTYll5Ii3” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1759443371649589534

Apple Vision Pro

“Under the hood visionOS creates a full floor plan of your space as you use it, and labels everything (floor, ceiling, chairs, etc). This is no joke. Most people dont realize the foundations in place here that will unlock a wide possibility of experiences. https://t.co/8F4rgztquW” / X – https://twitter.com/ludoviclandry/status/1760590949321937015

Splats and Nerfs

“Beautiful 💒 cathedral in Zagreb, Croatia presented in NeRF with @LumaLabsAI https://t.co/bwgNA4JQa9 https://t.co/lHeao0OG2g” / X – https://twitter.com/danielpikl/status/1759542706152284359

“NeRFs vs 3D Gaussian Splatting! Both can model the complexity of reality with radiance fields, but how are they different? Awesome write up Ed shared with me. Loved the WIRED style explanations with progressive levels of difficulty. 🔗 Read it here: https://t.co/Rz5Frut2xu” / X – https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1759774490630750646

“If you like 3D graphics, I wrote a high-level post on the difference between Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). It’s a ten min read, and aims to educate those not as familiar with the field of neural rendering. Link and some snippets below. 1/5 https://t.co/8R7apYK08p” / X – https://twitter.com/edwardahn9/status/1759610626597671357

Lighting

“lighting is just too much fun now! https://t.co/YlfHuTx3SE” / X – https://twitter.com/HakanssonAugust/status/1760692840508657973

World Models

“Lots of confusion about what a world model is. Here is my definition: Given: – an observation x(t) – a previous estimate of the state of the world s(t) – an action proposal a(t) – a latent variable proposal z(t) A world model computes: – representation: h(t) = Enc(x(t)) -…” / X – https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1759933365241921817

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AI News #21: Week Ending 02/23/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 36 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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