This video from day 3 of SIGGRAPH 2023 by the team at the ETC (Entertainment Technology Centre) at the University of Southern California, AKA ETC@USC, shows a demo by Fernando Rivas-Manzaneque and Orlando Avila-Garcia, co-founders of Volinga of real-time rendering of a NeRF in a real virtual production environment, which they claim was a world’s […]
While machine learning has been in use in content creation for some time, the power of the technology to engineer massive change, “responsible AI”, “ethical AI” and generative AI dominated the agenda at the 50th SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. “[AI] is scary because of the speed at which it moves. […]
If you would like to have a go at making some “super trippy” animations using generative AI tools you have come to the right place. Writing on Linkedin, Head of Immersive at design agency Seymour Powell, Chris Doughty has provided us all with a handy set of instructions. Download and install Python 3.10.6 – https://lnkd.in/eWH67UVv Download and […]
NVIDIA Instant NeRF (Neural Radiance Field), the company’s inverse rendering tool that turns a set of static images into a realistic 3D scene, has won the Best Paper award at SIGGRAPH 2022 which took place in Vancouver earlier this month. One of the best uses of Instant NeRF seen so far comes from San Francisco-based […]
A group of researchers from Google Research and Google Brain are developing deep learning models that can synthesise complex outdoor scenes using only unstructured collections of photos captured in-the-wild and regardless of camera angles, camera or lighting conditions The new models can capture lighting and photometric post-processing data of outdoor scenes, with variation in appearance, […]