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Link collection, week of december 11th
AI MemoryCache, augmenting local AI with browser data OpenSource macOS AP copilot using vision and voice Instructions on running local LLM on iOS Intel CEO against the CUDA moat FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using Large Language Models, by Google DeepMind Advancements in machine learning for machine learning: Machine Learning compilers by Google…
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New resources for the immersive web, week of December 11th 2023
WebXR on iOS Motivated by coming across the embedded post on Mastodon, we looked into existing solutions for iOS. We found this one, which is very sleek, but a bit on the expensive side: https://launch.variant3d.com/ Gaussian Splatting Explosion Meta: a collection of Gaussian Splatting stuff https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/12/08/Gaussian-explosion/ SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields SMERF Relightable avatars…
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Some AI news, and EU regulation
This ended up being a pretty weird post, juxtaposing technical releases and legal developments, we don’t know if we really managed to give it a coherent shape, but this is very much the complex space in which the future of digital humanities, and indeed the future of everything we do, is being shaped. There are…
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New resources for the immersive web, week of December 4th 2023
We’re starting a new series, periodically highlighting new tools and advancements that help to build immersive experiences on the open web. Look for more of these posts in the tools category. These can be new products, significant updates, or simply new discoveries. A-Watch A small library for building watch-like user interfaces in a-frame, supporting hand…
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Unlocking value from digital heritage collections: international perspectives
Back in October we missed this rather interesting conference on digitalization and reuse, hosted by the University of Turin and shared on YouTube by Wikimedia Italia.
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The Italian Court of Audit recommends Open Access for cultural works
As reported by Wikimedia Italia, the Italian Court of Audit (Corte dei Conti) recently released a lengthy (220 pages!) report (source) on the activities of the Italian Ministry for Culture, touching on the PND (Piano Nazionale di Digitalizzazione) and on specific pricing guidelines released in April (D. M. 161, 11 aprile 2023). Ideologically we are…
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Access and Recall
Anyone who creates digital experiences should read Cory Doctorow, particularly his blog, Pluralistic. Recently he wrote this essay which touches on immersive digitization efforts for museums, which obviously hits close to home for us. In particular, this linked presentation by Aaron Cope explains the important concepts after which we’re titling this post. Check out his…
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ActivityPub enabled
Thanks to the official WordPress ActivityPub plugin this blog can now be followed on Mastodon, or any other Fediverse network. These days we’re working quite a bit with RSS feeds and the concepts of federation and syndication. We have a couple of super basic RSS-feed generators based on web scraping, one is for the news…
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A 3D reconstruction comparison
In the past few weeks a new reconstruction technique has been taking the community by storm, called Gaussian Splatting. It is sort of an evolution on NeRFs, and mathematically it’s not dissimilar from the kind of reconstructions we do for spatial audio. Luckily a couple of companies have already implemented Gaussian Splatting pipelines, and here…
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MIMO Technique applied to the Greek Theatre of Tyndaris
We just published our first paper as a proper company! Check out the full text here. We created a reconstruction of the current state of a Greek-Roman theater in Sicily using drone-based photogrammetry, we helped with the acoustical measurements using the MIMO technique, and we created a Unity application that allows users to move around…