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Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) News: Week Ending 03/08/2024

“Tara Meisinger, Senior Maintenance Manager at @Panasonic_NV, demonstrates the power of AIP + Mixed Reality for frontline operators: • As we inspect the broken machine, AIP surfaces an error in spatial context. • AIP accesses PENA’s ontology to connect with real-time sensor… https://t.co/gEl6tmiQTB” / X – https://twitter.com/PalantirTech/status/1765836140563825056

“Very soon, these digital worlds will all be generated on the headset. We will have Reality Prompt Engineers as a new profession.” / X – https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1764458000767746527

“Made myself using, just one photo. Created 3D figure first try, the amazing @3DAIStudio – source image in thread https://t.co/4oXjCbagV3” / X – https://twitter.com/Toy_Maestro/status/1764711736802685042

Apple Vision Pro

“Spent 100 hours with Apple’s Vision Pro. It’s AMAZING… but there are some things I REALLY didn’t like. 🔗Here’s my in-depth review: https://t.co/Cfu7D8SiLH https://t.co/cK5N1eyrm5” / X – https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1766557743123411326

“Can you measure a stockpile with an Apple Vision Pro?! So proud of the team for pulling this off. #SpatialComputing #computervision @Scobleizer https://t.co/MVSNhhXH3W” / X – https://twitter.com/jonstephens85/status/1765142194393145521 

“🥽 Want to use your new Apple Vision Pro to control your robot? Want to record how you navigate / manipulate the world to train a policy? I developed an app for VisionOS that can stream your head / wrist / finger movements over WiFi, which you can subscribe on any machines using… https://t.co/l5CbeINWWf” / X – https://twitter.com/younghyo_park/status/1766274298422161830 

I worked exclusively in Vision Pro for a week—here’s how it went | Ars Technica – https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/i-worked-exclusively-in-vision-pro-for-a-week-heres-how-it-went/ 

3D Modeling

“Image-to-3D in seconds?! 🤯 Check this out — made by @emmanuel_2m with the latest @StabilityAI goodness Wen image-to-bobble head? 😝 https://t.co/7QERxXlqkA” / X – https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1765170726187774230

3D Diffusion Policy – https://3d-diffusion-policy.github.io/ 

Robot Training

“We trained ANYmal to go into confined spaces such as under collapsed buildings. To be presented at #ICRA2024 Title: Learning to walk in confined spaces using 3D representation Arxiv: https://t.co/KvRhFb4FSv Video: https://t.co/etJQu3YSrW Summary Page: https://t.co/CwWka8jwIB https://t.co/ocgsE6cjZl” / X – https://twitter.com/ki_ki_ki1/status/1765059789434875983

“🤔 Ever wondered if simulation-based animation/avatar learnings can be applied to real humanoid in real-time? 🤖 Introducing H2O (Human2HumanOid): – 🧠 An RL-based human-to-humanoid real-time whole-body teleoperation framework – 💃 Scalable retargeting and training using large… https://t.co/9KGOAeBMJ3” / X – https://twitter.com/zhengyiluo/status/1765917724163899609  

“How can we train robust policies with minimal human effort?🤖 We propose RialTo, a system that robustifies imitation learning policies from 15 real-world demonstrations using on-the-fly reconstructed simulations of the real world. (1/9)🧵 Project website: https://t.co/ZOU9zw7rVW https://t.co/PVzs09DpQO” / X – https://twitter.com/marceltornev/status/1765807049026547749

“Tara Meisinger, Senior Maintenance Manager at @Panasonic_NV, demonstrates the power of AIP + Mixed Reality for frontline operators: • As we inspect the broken machine, AIP surfaces an error in spatial context. • AIP accesses PENA’s ontology to connect with real-time sensor… https://t.co/gEl6tmiQTB” / X – https://twitter.com/PalantirTech/status/1765836140563825056

“Very soon, these digital worlds will all be generated on the headset. We will have Reality Prompt Engineers as a new profession.” / X – https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1764458000767746527

“Made myself using, just one photo. Created 3D figure first try, the amazing @3DAIStudio – source image in thread https://t.co/4oXjCbagV3” / X – https://twitter.com/Toy_Maestro/status/1764711736802685042

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AI News #23: Week Ending 03/08/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 38 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive 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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  1. AI News #23: Week Ending 03/08/2024 with Executive Summary, Top 38 Links, and Most Helpful Visuals – 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/2024/03/08/augmented-and-virtual-reality-ar-vr-news-week-ending-03-08-2024… […]

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