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RenderMan: Still ‘the man’ after 35 years

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Karen Moltenbrey

Hollywood continues to rely on and celebrate this amazing tool.

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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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The Electronic Theater Award Goes to Student Piece, La Diplomatie de L’éclipse

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Karen Moltenbrey

Recently, Siggraph named the winners of the jury awards from the 2023 Electronic Theater, those deemed the best of the best.

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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%.