David Sandberg has responded and said “This was an internal promo video that was never supposed to be seen by the public. I feel bad because it contains a bunch of plot points and temp VFX,โ Sandberg told Variety in a statement. โI hope at least people can see the passion that we poured into the movie, the world deserves to see it as it was meant to be seen. This movie has been held hostage for the past 5 years but I promise to keep fighting for it and make sure this film gets the chance it truly deserves.โ
Immersive video offers a 6-Dof-free viewing experience, potentially playing a key role in future video technology. Recently, 4D Gaussian Splatting has gained attention as an effective approach for immersive video due to its high rendering efficiency and quality, though maintaining quality with manageable storage remains challenging. To address this, we introduce GIFStream, a novel 4D Gaussian representation using a canonical space and a deformation field enhanced with time-dependent feature streams. These feature streams enable complex motion modeling and allow efficient compression by leveraging their motion-awareness and temporal correspondence. Additionally, we incorporate both temporal and spatial compression networks for endto-end compression.
Experimental results show that GIFStream delivers high-quality immersive video at 30 Mbps, with real-time rendering and fast decoding on an RTX 4090.
DB Browser for SQLiteย (DB4S) is a high quality, visual,ย open sourceย tool designed for people who want to create, search, and editย SQLiteย orย SQLCipherย database files. DB4S gives a familiar spreadsheet-like interface on the database in addition to providing a full SQL query facility. It works withย Windows,ย macOS, and most versions ofย Linuxย andย Unix. Documentation for the program is on theย wiki.
If you’re serious about AI Agents, this is the guide you’ve been waiting for. Itโs packed with everything you need to build powerful AI agents. It follows a very hands-on approach that cuts down your time and avoids the common mistakes most developers make.
Andreas Horn on AI Agents vs Agentic AI
1. ๐๐ ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐: ๐ง๐ผ๐ผ๐น๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐๐๐ผ๐ป๐ผ๐บ๐, ๐ช๐ถ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ถ๐๐ โ AI agents are modular, goal-directed systems that operate within clearly defined boundaries. Theyโre built to: * Use tools (APIs, browsers, databases) * Execute specific, task-oriented workflows * React to prompts or real-time inputs * Plan short sequences and return actionable outputs
But even the most advanced are limited by scope. They donโt initiate. They donโt collaborate. They execute what we ask!
2. ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐: ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ โ Agentic AI is an architectural leap. Itโs not just one smarter agent โ itโs multiple specialized agents working together toward shared goals. These systems exhibit: * Multi-agent collaboration * Goal decomposition and role assignment * Inter-agent communication via memory or messaging * Persistent context across time and tasks * Recursive planning and error recovery * Distributed orchestration and adaptive feedback
Agentic AI systems donโt just follow instructions. They coordinate. They adapt. They manage complexity.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ? AI Agents = autonomous tools for single-task execution Agentic AI = orchestrated ecosystems for workflow-level intelligence
Maya blue is a highly unusual pigment because it is a mix of organic indigo and an inorganic clay mineral called palygorskite. ย
Echoing the color of an azure sky, the indelible pigment was used to accentuate everything from ceramics to human sacrifices in the Late Preclassic period (300 B.C. to A.D. 300).
A team of researchers led byย Dean Arnold, an adjunct curator of anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago, determined that the key to Maya blue was actually a sacred incense called copal. By heating the mixture of indigo, copal and palygorskite over a fire, the Maya produced the unique pigment, he reported at the time.
If youโre serious about protecting your IP, client relationships, and professional credibility, you need to stop treating generative AI tools like consumer-grade apps. This isnโt about fear, itโs about operational discipline. Below are immediate steps you can take to reduce your exposure and stay in control of your creative pipeline.
Use ChatGPT via the API, not the public app, for any sensitive data.
Isolate ComfyUI to a sandboxed VM, Docker container, or offline machine.
Audit every custom node, donโt blindly trust GitHub links or ComfyUI workflows
Educate your team, a single mistake can leak an unreleased game asset, a feature film script, or trade secrets.
ย The new Vancouver virtual stage will measureย 50 feet in diameter, 23 feet tall, and will have a 14 foot deep semi-circle to surround actors and physical sets with a digital environment. ย Thereโs also two movable wild walls 20 feet wide and 16.5 ย feet tall and mounted on a ground-hover system to allow quick repositioning, especially for capturing car driving scenes.
Braindump is an attempt to imagine what game creation could be like in the brave new world of LLMs and generative AI to give you an entire AI game studio, complete with coders, artists, and so on, to help you create your dream game.
The dynamic range is a ratio between the maximum and minimum values of a physical measurement. Its definition depends on what the dynamic range refers to.
For a scene: Dynamic range is the ratio between the brightest and darkest parts of the scene.
For a camera: Dynamic range is the ratio of saturation to noise. More specifically, the ratio of the intensity that just saturates the camera to the intensity that just lifts the camera response one standard deviation above camera noise.
For a display: Dynamic range is the ratio between the maximum and minimum intensities emitted from the screen.
The Dynamic Range of real-world scenes can be quite high — ratios of 100,000:1 are common in the natural world. An HDR (High Dynamic Range) image stores pixel values that span the whole tonal range of real-world scenes. Therefore, an HDR image is encoded in a format that allows the largest range of values, e.g. floating-point values stored with 32 bits per color channel. Another characteristics of an HDR image is that it stores linear values. This means that the value of a pixel from an HDR image is proportional to the amount of light measured by the camera.
For TVs HDR is great, but it’s not the only new TV feature worth discussing.
Spectral sensitivity of eye is influenced by light intensity. And the light intensity determines the level of activity of cones cell and rod cell. This is the main characteristic of human vision. Sensitivity to individual colors, in other words, wavelengths of the light spectrum, is explained by the RGB (red-green-blue) theory. This theory assumed that there are three kinds of cones. It’s selectively sensitive to red (700-630 nm), green (560-500 nm), and blue (490-450 nm) light. And their mutual interaction allow to perceive all colors of the spectrum.
