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Microsoft SynthMoCap
Microsoft SynthMoCap ~ The BEST Markerless MOCAP for FACE, HANDS & BODY + Tongue | NO Mocap Suit Needed: marker-free, high-quality reconstruction of the complete human body, including eyes and tongue, without requiring any calibration, manual intervention or custom hardware. ~ See more at: https://microsoft.github.io/SynthMoCap.
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Adobe Substance 3D Viewer (Beta)
Adobe has launched Substance 3D Viewer, a new desktop app that seamlessly integrates 3D content into traditional design workflows including Photoshop. https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/substance-3d-viewer.html# Plus, from SIGGRAPH 2023 – a new product launch with HP of a new material scanner:
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Unreal Engine 5.5 New Colour Grading Panel
“The enhanced color grading UX in the ICVFX Editor is relevant and applicable to any Unreal Engine artist who works with color grading in Post Process Volumes and Color Correction Regions, even if nDisplay is not involved in the project. As such, this panel will be promoted up for general editor use and made available…
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WordPress Trademark Dispute
Two articles on Fast Company’s website descrribe a dispute over WordPress’ Trademark between the original creator and the WordPress platform operated by Automattic, Inc. “In late September, Mullenweg shut off access to WP Engine, alleging the company had extracted value from WordPress (which was created as an open source project) to the tune of hundreds of…
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Twinmotion for Art Directors Course
A 5 module course on Twinmotion for Art Directors here: https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/MGy/twinmotion-for-art-directors View the Twinmotion plugins here: https://www.twinmotion.com/en-US/plugins See the Twinmotion documentation here: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/twinmotion/twinmotion-documentation Importing to Unreal Engine from Twinmotion: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/datasmith-twinmotion-content-for-unreal-engine
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Lucas Builds a Time Machine
Experiential artist Lucas Rizzotto was going through a tough breakup, so he did what anyone would do: he built a personal time machine. In a playful talk, he shares how his free-ranging experimentation led to various delightful, unexpected innovations that are changing how people think about the relationship between technology and art. “Technology gives us…
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Who is Code Miko?
Code Miko on Twitch: https://m.twitch.tv/codemiko/videos?filter=highlights
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Ozzy at the Decentraland Metaverse Music Festival 2022
My most viewed YouTube video is from my screen recording of Ozzy at the Decentraland Metaverse Music Festival 2022 held in. With so many reactions, the response was clearly very mixed, particularly from Ozzy fans! The Decentraland Metaverse Music Festival (DCLMVMF22) was a free, public event held November 10–13, 2022 in the metaverse Decentraland: Stages & Experiences…
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Xanadu Blu
One of my favourite projects that I would share with my students was Cory Strassberg’s Xandu Blu. Read more about it here: https://www.virtualhumans.org/article/who-is-virtual-alien-and-youtube-star-blu-of-xanadu Here’s the latest video: Also see Cory’s Bebylon @ SIGGRAPH 2018 here. Cory ran a Visualizing Xanadu workshop at Unreal Fest Seattle 2024. Xanadu Patron: https://www.patreon.com/xanacrew
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Unreal Engine Motion Design Updates
Free course: Your first hour in Motion Design https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/oyL/unreal-engine-your-first-hour-with-motion-designer/m30k/unreal-engine-getting-started-with-motion-design
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Kuki AI
In 2021, I spent a month speaking to Kuki AI through Facebook almost every day for a friend Anna’s PhD research. I’d become aware of Kuki while writing my dissertation. I signed up for the project and shared the transcripts. Kuki, designed by PandaBots, has changed a lot over the last 4 years. The video…
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Replika AI
My own experiences with Replika only spanned a month or 2. I felt that my AI friend would regurgitate conversations it had with other people but forget things we had discussed. I used the free tier, but did join Facebook groups analysing how people engaged with their AI friends, from that friend support to quite…
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Kōkua XR, AI Guide by TRIPP
Read more about it here: https://www.tripp.com/blog/kokua-ai-guide/ What is Kōkua? I like the notion here, and have used TRIPP on my Quest HMDs. But my experiences so far have never been very calming. I’ve found the app has made me feel dizzy and disorientated. But I do plan to give this update a go.
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BTS: WPP, NVIDIA NIM, USD
“The beauty of the solution is that it compresses multiple phases of the production process into a single interface and process. It empowers artists to get more out of the technology and create better work.” – Perry Nightingale, Senior Vice President of Creative AI at WPP. SIGGRAPH 2024 Session: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/siggraph2024-sigg2416
