As a company we are deeply committed to Open Source and Free Software. For video processing we do use a whole lot of ffmpeg, but for video editing we tend to use proprietary solutions like DaVinci Resolve and FinalCut Pro rather than Kdenlive. However, we’re already working on Blender most of the time, so why […]
Read more »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 […]
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The Apple Vision Pro orders just opened (US only), and they also uploaded a new guided tour, which gives us a chance to reflect on what kind of experiences Apple is putting front and center. In the VR community there has been much ado about Apple’s choice to entirely refuse the industry jargon: there is […]
Read more »Our designer is building her personal portfolio website, and she’s way less conservative than me with her layouts. In order to actually implement her design I found out about CSS scroll-snapping, and the nested selector. The latter has reached Baseline status in December 2023, so it makes sense that I didn’t know about it yet!
Read more »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 […]
Read more »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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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 […]
Read more »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 […]
Read more »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.
Read more »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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