“DimensionX Create Any 3D and 4D Scenes from a Single Image with Controllable Video Diffusion 

“Visualizing drone flight paths in mapbox — a well designed map is pure visual umami 😍 

New role at Netflix: VP, GenAI for Games

“Spatial media is both the ultimate canvas and the ultimate tool. Here’s why: Traditionally, humans have had a few creative mediums at our disposal, and their essence has remained largely unchanged over the years. We’ve had the 2D rectangular canvas — whether it’s cave” / X

[2411.03819v1] SA3DIP: Segment Any 3D Instance with Potential 3D Priors

X-Portrait 2: Highly Expressive Portrait Animation

“🚀 Blender Addon for Metahumans! Get ready to fully customize your Metahumans in Blender! Our new addon allows you to import DNA files and offers a seamless 1-to-1 integration with the face board rig logic, just like in @UnrealEngine. Now, you can work in Blender and 

“It’s wild just how expressive X-Portrait 2 is! What you’re seeing is the video on the bottom right “driving” the performance of the still image on the bottom left. Unlike Runway’s Act-One it can transfer fast head movements, minuscule expression changes and stronger emotions. 

NVIDIA Advances Robot Learning, Humanoid Development With New AI and Simulation Tools | NVIDIA Blog

“Molecular dynamics simulations in mixed reality! With @labriataphd and @lucien_krapp we’re scaling our multi-user WebXR platform to enable immersive molecular simulations, fully based on web technologies. Stay tuned, lots of cool stuff coming soon! @threejs #WebXR #Quest3 

Apple Vision Pro

Apple (AAPL) Explores Push Into Smart Glasses With Internal Study – Bloomberg

“The Ultrawide Mac Virtual Display on Apple Vision Pro is here, and it’s glorious. 

Gaussian Splatting and Nerfs

[2411.03637v1] Structure Consistent Gaussian Splatting with Matching Prior for Few-shot Novel View Synthesis

gsplat documentation
gsplat is an open-source library for CUDA-accelerated differentiable rasterization of 3D gaussians with Python bindings. 

World Models

“Introducing Oasis: the first playable AI-generated game. We partnered with @DecartAI to build a real-time, interactive world model that runs >10x faster on Sohu. We’re open-sourcing the model architecture, weights, and research. Here’s how it works (and a demo you can play!): 

Autonomous Vehicles: AI News Week Ending 11/08/2024

Amazon gets FAA approval for new drone as it starts tests in Arizona

XPENG – Official Website | XPENG Motors – XPENG (Global)

Waymo

“The latest @Waymo California driverless ride stats are out from @californiapuc. In August 2023: 12,000 for the month. In August 2024: 312,000 for the month. 

Waymo explores using Google’s Gemini to train its robotaxis – The Vergehttps://www.theverge.com/2024/10/30/24283516/waymo-google-gemini-llm-ai-robotaxi

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