“Introduction to Genies’ Smart Avatars – Genies”
https://genies.com/blog/introduction-to-genies-smart-avatars
[2412.09296v1] GoHD: Gaze-oriented and Highly Disentangled Portrait Animation with Rhythmic Poses and Realistic Expression
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09296v1
“Omnidirectional 3D video of the real world — damn near teleportation in a VR headset. This $17,000 VR camera released in 2017 was ahead of its time. 17 cameras → cloud stitching → 8K x 8K stereo VR video. The moment is ripe for a new 4d capture rig optimized for dynamic 3d
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1868447857482834187
Google
“Check out this Stereo4D paper from Google DeepMind. It’s a pretty clever approach to a persistent problem in computer vision — getting good training data for how things move in 3D. The key insight is using VR180 videos — those stereo fisheye videos we launched back in 2017 for
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1868298708841902172
Meta
Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Add Live AI, Live Translation, & Shazam Support | Meta Quest Blog | Meta Store
https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/ray-ban-meta-v11-software-update-live-ai-translation-shazam/
Meta adds live translation, AI video to Ray-Ban smart glasses | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-adds-live-translation-ai-video-ray-ban-smart-glasses-2024-12-16/
Robot Training
“If an AI can control 1,000 robots to perform 1 million skills in 1 billion different simulations, then it may “just work” in our real world, which is simply another point in the vast space of possible realities. This is the fundamental principle behind why simulation works so
https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1869795912597549137
Genesis
https://genesis-embodied-ai.github.io/
Generative Video WorldSim, Diffusion, Vision, Reinforcement Learning and Robotics — ICML 2024 Part 1
https://www.latent.space/p/icml-2024-video-robots
“🚨 NVIDIA Introduces Jetson Nano Super > compact AI computer capable of 70-T operations per second > designed for robotics, it supports advanced models, including LLMs, and costs $249
https://x.com/slow_developer/status/1869059311969661103
World Models
“What are AI ‘world models,’ and why do they matter? | TechCrunch”
“Generative world models for film, gaming, and beyond”
https://odyssey.systems/introducing-explorer
“We’ve been busy building the next frontier of AI: generative worlds at @odysseyml. It’s great to be able to share our work publicly (including testing in production settings), and welcome @edcatmull to our board!”
https://x.com/jeffrey_hawke/status/1869500604760080462
Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42317903
“Ed Catmull (Pixar founder) just joined Odyssey’s board as they reveal their first 3D breakthrough: Instantly turning any 2D image into an editable 3D world. World Labs isn’t alone anymore. Here’s the TL;DR without the hype 🧵
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1869472246131269878
