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XR News for 2024-04-23
People expected big changes after the release of the Apple Vision Pro, and some are visibly disappointed. Apple tends to have a big effect on the mainstream, lots of people seem to think that they invented the smartphone, when the iPhone came out I was using my third smartphone. XR technology has been commercially available…
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Corrections to the cultural heritage images licensing regime
Last year a mandatory fee regime was introduced for images of publicly-owned cultural heritage artifacts. This is morally wrong, but it is also impractical. A new regulation came out in March modifying the rules and introducing exemptions. Wikimedia Italia wrote about it on their Arkivia blog. Academic works and news are now exempted from the…
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AI News: Music generation, Energy consumption, learn the basics
Music generation There are several use-cases for algorithmically generating music, and indeed there is a long history of both hardware and software in this field. Back in the 80s there was even a significant professional backlash against MIDI and drum machines. For example, it would be quite handy to generate anechoic sounds for acoustics listening…
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BCC Innovation Festival news coverage
We’re working on the immersive component of the BCC Innovation Festival: a startup event that we won back in 2022. There are still around two weeks to participate, and we’re aggregating a little bit of media coverage. Mostly it’s because we like seeing our own work (the 3D model of the low-poly Rodin statue) featured…
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AI Linkpost
Short collection of links about AI, and especially local AI
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Exhibit goals: reversos
I’ve learned about this amazing exhibit about reversos at the Prado: https://hyperallergic.com/869083/prado-show-reveals-the-hidden-artworks-on-the-backs-of-masterpieces/ It is truly exhibit design at its best, but it gave me the idea of digitizing not only the back of paintings, but the very structure. I’d like to build an exhibit in which we show how the painting is made, how it…
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Apple Vision Pro coverage roundup
The Apple Vision Pro launch seems to have brought a lot of of interest, which is to be expected when Apple does, well, anything. They even came up with their own marketing-infused grammar, they want people to say Apple Vision Pro, never the Apple Vision Pro. Some of the discourse has veered into worries about…
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AI Linkpost – 2024-02-06
Local AI Apple open-sourced this interesting local AI for instruction-based image editing. https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile https://github.com/apple/ml-ferret General AI news https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/17/24041518/generative-ai-copyright-violation-fair-training-label-certification: Nonprofit group Fairly Trained plans to certify AI models that ask permission to use copyrighted material. https://moritzgiessmann.de/blog/posts/using-ai-for-accessibility/ https://www.theuxda.com/blog/ux-case-study-ai-powered-spatial-banking-for-apple-vision-pro https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/01/what-do-threads-mastodon-and-hospital-records-have-in-common/ Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home: Hacker News Thread Mixtral 8x7B: A…
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Immersive Web Linkpost – 2024-02-05
https://oniri.space/oniri/homestay_demo/ https://www.brinkxr.com/
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Tiny linkpost: spatial computing annex
In yesterday’s post I neglected to link to a couple of really interesting and accessible essays on spatial interactions, both by Maggie Appleton. In Historical Trails there are wonderful examples on how chronological information can be shifted to a spatial representation, allowing for better and faster retrieval, and more generally for matching the semantics of…