NVIDIA has updated its AI-assisted reel-time collaboration and simulation platform Omniverse, announcing at a virtual event to coincide with CES in Las Vegas that it now supports generative AI and Unity’s game engine. Performance and usability have both been improved and new connectors have been added to expand the Omniverse ecosystem. Omniverse customers include Dentsu, Mercedes […]
The highly-valued startup behind popular text-to-image generator Dall-E, OpenAI ,has announced the release of Point-E, which can produce 3D point clouds directly from text prompts in a minute or two using a computer with a sufficiently powerful GPU. How is it done? “To produce a 3D object from a text prompt, we first sample an image […]
In February 1957 Walt Disney recorded this video in which he talks about how the company made and used multi-plane cameras to create image segmentation in 2.5 dimensions and give depth to animated feature films. Here’s the Wikipedia explanation for how the technology worked. The multiplane camera is a motion-picture camera that was used in the traditional animation process that moves a […]
Could an individual using nothing more than neural networks combine imagination and production into a single process and single-handedly oversee the creation of an acclaimed and commercially successful movie? Is AI-generated art going to be used to stimulate new forms of expression that transcend what we see on our screens today, spawning new styles and […]
Another book, this time “a photographic exploration of the beautiful design inside everyday electronics”. Let’s hope you still have some tokens left. Its stunning cross-section photography unlocks a hidden world full of elegance, subtle complexity, and wonder. Our phones, computers, and appliances are made of hundreds of internal components, each precisely engineered to perform a […]
Laura Frank is a technologist and writer. From her Linkedin profile: Laura has over thirty years of professional experience as an entertainment technologist. Working across a diverse group of production environments Laura seeks to demystify the technological hurdles to creative visions. This includes merging the toolsets of video, lighting, audio and scenic automation into one […]