Apple Vision Pro

“First big Vision Pro update: Shared experiences. “Spatial personas” This was at the top of my list of what was missing from Vision Pro – the floating head is a little odd looking, but the principle is there: Interact with the same content/game/object as someone else in realtime  https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1775178427328614717 

“This is insane 🤩 Apple has announced that Spatial Personas are available on Vision Pro today in visionOS 1.1 Up to five people can watch movies and TV shows, play games, collaborate and hang out together  https://twitter.com/BenGeskin/status/1775166712519807109 

Now Apple Vision Pro Personas can float freely across different apps – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24118863/apple-vision-pro-spatial-persona-shareplay 

Genie

“Our new AI model Genie can create playable worlds in the style of 2D platformers – all from a single image prompt, sketch or text description. ✏️ As a foundation world model, Genie could also help us train AI agents. Here’s how. ↓  https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1775162077696360804 

Gaussian Splatting and Nerfs

“It never gets old to see your 3D scans brought to life right in front of you, especially when you’re doing the training locally. This is a 3D Gaussian Splat with about 30,000 iterations trained on my Nvidia GPU using a software called Postshot. With it you can train splats and…  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1774272807125307799

3D Modeling

Introducing Bezi AI – Today marks a significant milestone in the world of 3D design: the ability to ideate at the speed of thought with an infinite asset library.

https://www.bezi.com/blog/introducing-bezi-ai

Other AR/VR News

Cyberpunk 2077: POV Photorealistic Motorbike Ride in 8K | Real Life Graphics Mod – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_toA8lErAHg&t=19s 

“This is perhaps the most legit 3D family photo I’ve ever seen, captured with @Polycam3D. Can’t wait until its easy for anyone to make something like this  https://twitter.com/cpheinrich/status/1775679449029333389 
“Holy crap! Gone are the days of artifact-laden image interpolation. Throw in a little diffusion and you get this generative interpolation magic that handles complex motion like a champ. Check out Google’s VIDIM paper by @jannekontkanen, @poolio et al  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1775738248549077286

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Be Sure To Read This Week’s Main Post:

This week’s executive overview and top links are here:

AI News #27: Week Ending 04/05/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 48 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.

• Agents/Copilots
• Amazon
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Google
• Images/Photos
• International AI News
• Locally Run AI Models
• Mobile
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer 
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/ 
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/ 
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia   
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/ 
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/  
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai  
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang  
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats  
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan 
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI   
• Marshall Kirkpatrick:  https://aitimetoimpact.com/
• AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/

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