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Epic is changing Unreal Engine’s pricing for non-game developers
The change will happen sometime next year and will charge some users on a per-seat model, similar to Photoshop pricing.
Game developers using Unreal Engine won’t be affected and will continue to pay for a license based on a royalty model. However, users in industries like film or automotive will be moved to per-seat pricing, meaning they’ll be charged for the subscription the same way someone might pay for Photoshop.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/5/23905082/epic-unreal-engine-pricing-change-film-automotive
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Luma Interactive Scenes announced: Gaussian Splatting
https://neuralradiancefields.io/luma-interactive-scenes-announced/
“…these are in fact Gaussian Splats that are being run and it’s a proprietary iteration of the original Inria paper. They hybridize the performance gain of realtime rendering with Gaussian Splatting with robust cloud based rendering that’s already widely being used in commercial applications. This has been in the works for a while over at Luma and I had the opportunity to try out some of my datasets on their new method.”
MICHAEL RUBLOFF
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Meta Quest 3 is here
https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-quest-3-oculus-preview-connect-2023/
- Better lenses
- Better resolution
- Better processor
- Better audio
- Better passthrough
- Better controllers
- Better form-factor
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HuggingFace ai-comic-factory – a FREE AI Comic Book Creator
https://huggingface.co/spaces/jbilcke-hf/ai-comic-factory
this is the epic story of a group of talented digital artists trying to overcame daily technical challenges to achieve incredibly photorealistic projects of monsters and aliens
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Mysterious animation wins best illusion of 2011 – Motion silencing illusion
The 2011 Best Illusion of the Year uses motion to render color changes invisible, and so reveals a quirk in our visual systems that is new to scientists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_silencing_illusion
“It is a really beautiful effect, revealing something about how our visual system works that we didn’t know before,” said Daniel Simons, a professor at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Simons studies visual cognition, and did not work on this illusion. Before its creation, scientists didn’t know that motion had this effect on perception, Simons said.
A viewer stares at a speck at the center of a ring of colored dots, which continuously change color. When the ring begins to rotate around the speck, the color changes appear to stop. But this is an illusion. For some reason, the motion causes our visual system to ignore the color changes. (You can, however, see the color changes if you follow the rotating circles with your eyes.)
