Ethan B. Holland

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Augmented Reality (AR/VR)

Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) News: Week Ending 07/26/2024

July 26, 2024

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Google

Google wants to steal Ray-Ban maker from Meta for Gemini smart glasses

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-steal-ray-ban-meta-maker-gemini-glasses-3462619

3D Modeling

“Palace of Fine Arts 3D Scan Never gets old to see reality reconstructed in front of you, especially if you’re training your radiance fields locally ⚙️ 2D drone imagery —> 3D Gaussian Splat (30K iterations; trained using PostShot on an RTX6000 GPU)

Palace of Fine Arts 3D Scan

Never gets old to see reality reconstructed in front of you, especially if you’re training your radiance fields locally

⚙️ 2D drone imagery —> 3D Gaussian Splat (30K iterations; trained using PostShot on an RTX6000 GPU) pic.twitter.com/th0oJ8HBqo
— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) July 24, 2024

How AI Brought 11,000 College Football Players to Digital Life in Three Months – WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-ai-brought-11-000-college-football-players-to-digital-life-in-three-months-84d7c00f

Other AR/VR News

Stable Video 4D — Stability AI

https://stability.ai/news/stable-video-4d

“There have been rapid advancements in AI text-to-video in the past couple of weeks, with multiple players now making pretty impressive systems. This is “giant mech walking through a flowing river” (I selected the best of two videos) from Kling, Runway and Luma.

There have been rapid advancements in AI text-to-video in the past couple of weeks, with multiple players now making pretty impressive systems.

This is "giant mech walking through a flowing river" (I selected the best of two videos) from Kling, Runway and Luma. pic.twitter.com/r72FI0Xg3I
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) July 25, 2024

“Sneak peek at our WIP real-time lip sync in #UnrealEngine

Sneak peek at our WIP real-time lip sync in #UnrealEngine pic.twitter.com/1vwnW1bccc
— Arsenii Turgulainen (@ars3d) July 25, 2024

Artificial Agency raises $16M to use AI to make NPCs feel more realistic in video games | TechCrunch

Artificial Agency raises $16M to use AI to make NPCs feel more realistic in video games

“With this #ComfyUI workflow, you can own your creature lab 🩸 AnimateDiff + IPA https://twitter.com/Mortezaaa_/status/1815692293698896316

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AI News #43: Week Ending 07/26/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 97 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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