Sep 12New Showrunner AI: The Sum Of All Hollywood’s FearsAs Hollywood actors and writers strike, a company called The Simulation (formerly Fable Studio) has introduced Showrunner, a new AI application that can create 22-minute generative AI TV fan and parody episodes of popular shows. To demonstrate the power of Showrunner, The Simulation released a 22- minute TV episode of…AI4 min readAI4 min read
Sep 12Spaces SDK Playing Starring Role For XR App DevelopersIn a keynote address to thousands of AR cognoscenti and developers at Augmented World Expo (AWE) in Santa Clara two weeks ago, Qualcomm VP Hugo Swart, GM of XR, took a deep dive into how the company’s two year old Snapdragon Spaces SDK (software developer kit) enables users to deploy…Sdk4 min readSdk4 min read
Sep 12AREA15: The Mall Of The FutureYou can’t miss AREA15 in Las Vegas if you drive anywhere on I-15, parallel to the strip. On one side of the cab are the backs of famous casino hotels. On the other, out of a vast emptiness of anonymous warehouses appears the mother of all vast featureless warehouses. It…Experience6 min readExperience6 min read
Sep 12Amazon Product Pages Go 3D With HexaThe Metaverse is poking its head into the 2D Internet. Amazon is adding 3D product shots to its product pages through a partnership with Tel-Aviv based Hexa, a 3D visualization platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to turn merchants’ existing 2D product shots into 3D models. The resulting digital…Amazon2 min readAmazon2 min read
Sep 8Hyper-Reality, The Art Of Designing Impossible ExperiencesCurtis Hickman, co-founder of the VOID and its Chief Creative Officer, has written a new book, Hyper-Reality, The Art of Designing Impossible Experiences. The subject of this voluminous textbook is the art of illusion, and how magic, whether by hand or headset, is at the core of the sleight of…VR4 min readVR4 min read
Sep 8Gen-AI Movie Trailer For Sci Fi Epic “Genesis”The movie trailer for “Genesis,” created with AI, is so convincing it caused a stir on Twitter last night. That’s how I found out about it. Created by Nicolas Neubert, a senior product designer who works for Elli by Volkswagen in Germany, the “Genesis” trailer promotes a dystopian sci-fi epic…AI3 min readAI3 min read
Sep 8Inworld Adds Another $50 Million For AI Character EngineInworld, which makes AI-driven non-player characters (NPCs) for games and other applications has raised approximately $50 million* in new funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners. The round values the company, which has raised $100M to date, at over $500M. Since Inworld’s founding in July 2021, the company has raised a total…AI4 min readAI4 min read
Aug 25New Sci-Fi Shorts Prompted Into Existence With AIMilan Cucuk made the short video 1000 Miles, Part 1, in eight hours from his own script, using AI tools Mid-Journey (for image generation), Runway (for video generation), and Elven Labs (for voice generation). The exceptionally fast cutting of the visuals are a good match for its tight storytelling, a…AI4 min readAI4 min read
Aug 24Virtuix Raises $5 Million For Home VR TreadmillVirtuix, developer of the “Omni” omni-directional VR treadmill, announced that it has raised $5 million in an equity crowdfunding campaign that ends this Thursday, August 10th. The Austin, Texas-based company says it has shipped over 4,000 commercial treadmills to date to major customers like Dave & Buster’s. It’s been a…VR3 min readVR3 min read
Aug 233D Display Maker Leia Acquires Competitor Dimenco3D display maker Leia Inc. announced it acquired 3D display maker Dimenco this morning. The terms of the cash and equity transaction between the two private companies were not disclosed. CEO and founder David Faatal will continue to lead the company from Silicon Valley, and Dimenco CEO Maarten Tobias will…Leia3 min readLeia3 min read
