The Age of A.I. is a 8 part documentary series hosted by Robert Downey Jr. covering the ways Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Neural Networks will change the world. Life on Mars won’t be how David Bowie pictured it. With the help of artificial intelligence, architects and scientists are painting a picture of what life […]
The Ōma cinema in Paris is the first in the world with seats arranged vertically in front of a huge screen In an earlier post here, we covered the design of the Oma cinema complex that is due to open in Paris in 2021, which features a stack of pods with a variety of seating […]
A group of academics at CVIT (Center for Visual Information Technology) in Hyderabad, India has successfully mastered the process of accurately lip-sync’ing dynamic, unconstrained talking face videos, using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). As you will see in the demo video, this includes matching a live language translation to an original video spoken in a native […]
Pinewood Atlanta Studios is one of the companies showing the way forward in virtual production with the launch of a new LED-equipped virtual set. The initiative is a partnership involving MBSi, Fuse Technical Group and SGPS/ShowRig. They’re using similar LED wall technology to that used on The Mandalorian. At the moment, the set-up can be […]
As businesses and employees, as well as the freelancers they work with, adjust to the so-called ‘new normal’, and remote working becomes more-or-less standard, spare a thought for those who need to wield some pretty meaty hardware in their spare bedrooms or garden offices. Operating powerful workstations with top-end GPUs comes with a maintenance overhead, […]
In its Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2020–2024 report, PwC predicts that the global M&E industry will contract by 5.6% in 2020. It’s the sharpest fall in global M&E revenue in the 21-years PwC has been conducting this research and represents a $120 Billion hole in the industry’s finances, For context, in 2009, the last year […]