Ethan B. Holland

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Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) News: Week Ending 03/01/2024

March 4, 2024

Genie

“Google presents Genie Generative Interactive Environments introduce Genie, the first generative interactive environment trained in an unsupervised manner from unlabelled Internet videos. The model can be prompted to generate an endless variety of action-controllable virtual… https://t.co/ZO1focG7Vx” / X – https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1761961459515322527

“AI powered Image-to-video games is here 🤯 Imagine transforming any image – a sketch, a photograph, or even a text-generated scene into a fully interactive, playable world. That’s exactly what Genie, does. Genie by Google DeepMind is a foundation AI world model that can… https://t.co/knmYJj5Unx” / X – https://twitter.com/Saboo_Shubham_/status/1762162667081306363

“Genie’s model is general and not constrained to 2D. We also train a Genie on robotics data (RT-1) without actions, and demonstrate that we can learn an action controllable simulator there too. We think this is a promising step towards general world models for AGI. https://t.co/yYLBzefBkz” / X – https://twitter.com/_rockt/status/1762027814369267901

Other AR/VR News

“Zoom just keeps adding AI features randomly that I don’t know if anyone uses, but which offer exciting new possibilities for weird conference calls. Like you can prompt for backgrounds during a call. https://t.co/ViuwnLnvzu” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1763648456235814930

“A new report from Bloomberg revealed Apple’s future roadmap for AI-powered smart glasses. The glasses will aim to compete with Meta’s new AI Ray-Bans, being able to play audio and use AI + cameras to identify things in the world. Almost feels like a lite Vision pro. https://t.co/U3sWr1taRn” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1762345725764022351

FlowMDM: Seamless Human Motion Composition with Blended Positional Encodings | German Barquero – https://barquerogerman.github.io/FlowMDM/

“Interesting early evidence that Sora, the movie creator from OpenAI, may indeed be a big leap in capabilities: “we observe that the videos generated with Sora are good enough for 3D reconstruction, with significant advantages across all selected metrics” https://t.co/debKaHvB5R https://t.co/azw58Ut3C5” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1762844368195527162

“The @MoveAI_ digital human motion model estimates ground reaction forces. Similar to how humans balance using sensory inputs and the brain to control muscles. Similar to how robots balance using sensors and control systems to move actuators. https://t.co/dECNoQHz4e” / X – https://twitter.com/tinoooom/status/1762454905183142039

“Get the game you want in seconds not seasons, type and press play: https://t.co/x5d6H1ZSAK #genie #GenAI #LLMs #gaming https://t.co/AriZIwxkIe” / X – https://twitter.com/auxuman/status/1762661639210344561

“People are watching these video demos and are biting their lips.. It’s a new, stunning Audio2Video AI model by Alibaba. Next level lips sync and facial expression generations from just 1 reference image. 5 demos – singing and talking: https://t.co/ZjwFlUzVwF” / X – https://twitter.com/_Borriss_/status/1762821967814520889

“Lenovo just unveiled Project Crystal, a fully functioning transparent laptop. It uses a transparent micro-LED display that offers a literal clear view of what’s behind it. Straight to the Christmas wishlist. https://t.co/gxca2KwFnt” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1762345673658179994

“SORA can animate images pretty amazingly. Prompt: “In an ornate, historical hall, a massive tidal wave peaks and begins to crash. Two surfers, seizing the moment, skillfully navigate the face of the wave.” https://t.co/rNDB98jTe2″ / X – https://twitter.com/angrypenguinPNG/status/1758296824484663678

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AI News #22: Week Ending 03/01/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 25 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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