LG Electronics and Unity have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to create meta-homes, enabling users to spend time in highly accurate ‘digital twins’ of their personal living spaces that include all the LG products in their real homes. For convenience, and, let’s face it, at the moment, a bit of a giggle, adjustments to […]
Cinematographer Daniel Voshart and Lausanne-based Tunisian artist Haroun Bin have used H. V. Canter’s book Personal Appearance in the Biography of the Roman Emperors as a reference to reconstruct the heads of more than sixty of the most important figures in ancient history. The project took eight months in total and bringing each one to […]
Shortly after South Korean comic-book artist (or should that be graphic novel illustrator?) Kim Jung Gi passed away unexpectedly in October at the age of 47, French motion designer 5you fed Gi’s work into a neural network as a form of tribute. Apart from a few telltale signs that the images were AI-generated, the results […]
Working with creative partners VRrOOm on VRChat, Future Fest and Volta, Unity will broadcast a first of its kind multi-destination and cross-platform virtual concert featuring TikTok bass sensation Blu DeTiger at its Unite 2022 event on 1 November. The performance, which will be covered from multiple camera angles and synced with VJ visuals, will be […]
Sony’s fifth generation Alpha camera, the a7R V, contains a big technological advance – a dedicated deep learning chip that recognises humans and animals in real-time. It achieves pin-sharp autofocus on a subject’s eye by tracking its entire body even when it is in motion. This works when a subject’s eye is only partly visible. […]
Virtual production supervisor and VFX specialist Gareth Repton has turned to crowdfunding to raise the money needed to launch a new, privately-owned film studio near Oxford. His ambition is to make virtual production more affordable and accessible to producers shooting movies, TV shows, commercials and promos on lower budgets. LUXA Film is looking to buy […]