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Upping your graphics game

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Shawnee Blackwood

Ray Reconstruction makes a visible difference.

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Nvidia Omniverse Platform Update Unleashes OpenUSD Integration and Generative AI Capabilities for Advanced 3D Workflows

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Shawnee Blackwood

Companies like Cesium, Convai, Move AI, SideFX Houdini, and Wonder Dynamics have become connected to Omniverse through OpenUSD.

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ShapesXR Secures $8.6 Million Seed Funding to Democratize VR Design and Collaboration

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Shawnee Blackwood

The company's platform bridges the gap between creativity and technical expertise, ensuring that users do not require extensive technical skills to harness the potential of VR technology.

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Unity Showcasing the New Unity Wētā Tools Division at Siggraph 2023

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Shawnee Blackwood

During Siggraph 2023, participants can explore Unity Wētā Tools' products and solutions, including insights into the creation process for Unity's new real-time digital human with Unity Wētā Tools' Ziva Real-Time and Wig.

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Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA Join Forces to Standardize 3D Ecosystem through Alliance for OpenUSD Initiative

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Shawnee Blackwood

This will enable developers and content creators to describe, compose, and simulate large-scale 3D projects, paving the way for an increasing variety of 3D-enabled products and services.

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Meta’s Generative AI Tool Wants to Help Everyone Make Beautiful Music

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Shawnee Blackwood

AudioCraft aims to bridge that gap and make generative audio more accessible and straightforward for people to use and experiment with.

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Meta to Showcase Two Groundbreaking VR Prototypes at Siggraph 2023

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Shawnee Blackwood

While Butterscotch Varifocal and Flamera are still in the research stage and may not become consumer-facing products, they represent exciting steps forward for the VR industry.

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Neural Haircut: Strand-based Reconstruction of Hair From Multi-View Images

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Shawnee Blackwood

The main idea behind the strand-based hair reconstruction is to use geometry texture and a pre-trained strand parametric model on synthetic data.

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AR Market Set to Soar: New Report Forecasts $35 Billion Revenue by 2027

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Shawnee Blackwood

Head-worn AR is expected to surge from $2.32 billion in 2022 to a staggering $35.26 billion in 2027, an impressive compound annual growth rate of 72.26%.

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Siggraph 2023 Unveils Cutting-Edge Innovations in Character Animation and Robotics

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Shawnee Blackwood

As Siggraph 2023 approaches, the event's theme, "Age of Siggraph," honors the rich history and future potential of the industry, bringing together experts, developers, and artists in Los Angeles from 6th to 10th August.