With the launch of the Vision Pro ($3,499 in the US, no UK pricing yet),, with its gestural control, “superior eye tracking” and “infinite desktop“, early on, Apple appears to be targeting the business community more than consumers. The hope and expectation is that the device and platform, with an ecosystem of apps, will be […]
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Super Bowl LVIII: through the lens sharply, slowly, intimately and from all angles
American Cinematographer’s Noah Kadner looks at some of image capture highlights from this year’s big game CBS deployed 165 Sony broadcast cameras in total, including many capable of 4K zoom and 48 featuring 4K super slo-mo. Smaller FX-series models, like the FX6 and FX9 were used for “more intimate, cinematic shots at field level”. There […]
The 2024 NBA All Star weekend will feature real-time graphics on an LED court
On the morning of Super Bowl Sunday, there’s only one ball sport to be talking about, and that’s basketball They have had to wait eight years for the technology to catch up, but at the NBA’s 2024 All-Star weekend at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the Celebrity Game (Friday 16 February) and the Saturday […]
Disney invests $1.5 billion in Epic Games to create a new “entertainment universe”
Disney has announced that it is investing $1.5 billion in Epic Games. The press release, which was accompanied by the teaser video below, says that the “equity stake” creates a financial partnership that will see both companies “collaborate on an all-new games and entertainment universe that will further expand the reach of beloved Disney stories […]
Roblox gets automated in-game AI chat translation
Multi-player gaming platform Roblox has announced a new real-time AI chat translator that will allow its 70 million daily active users to effortlessly communicate in up to 16 different languages. The feature will be available in any Roblox experience.that has enabled the in-experience text chat service. “Thanks to our new real-time AI chat translations, we’ve made possible […]
TenCent’s DynamiCrafter demonstrates its narrow advantage over Stable Video Diffusion and Pika Labs
China’s Tencent, the home of WeChat, has announced a new version of its open source video generation model DynamiCrafter – visit the GitHub page. Like others, it uses the diffusion method to turn captions and still images into seconds-long videos. What is the diffusion method? It turns captions and still images into seconds-long videos. Diffusion models […]
