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Looking Glass Factory – 4K Hololuminescent™ Displays (HLD)
𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭™ 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 (HLD for short) — razor thin (as thin as a 17mm), full 4K resolution, and capable of generating holographic presence at a magical price.
A breakthrough display that creates a holographic stage for people, products, and characters, delivering the magic of spatial presence in a razor-thin form factor.
Our patented hybrid technology creates embedded holographic layer creates the 3D volume, transforming standard video into dimensional, lifelike experiences.
Create impossible spatial experiences from standard video
- Characters, people, and products appear physically present in the room
- The embedded holographic layer creates depth and dimension that makes subjects appear to float in space
- First scalable holographic illusion that doesn’t require a room-sized installation
- The dimensional depth and presence of pepper’s ghost illusions, without the bulk
Built for the real world
- FHD clarity (HLD 16″) and 4K clarity (HLD 27″ and HLD 86″), high brightness for any lighting environment
- Thin profile fits anywhere traditional displays go
- Wall-mounted, it creates the illusion of punching a hole through the wall into another dimension
- Films beautifully for social sharing – the magic translates on camera
Works with what you have
- Runs on your existing digital signage solution, CMS, and 4K video distribution infrastructure
- Standard HDMI input or USB loading
- 2D video workflow with straightforward, specific requirements: full-size subjects on green/white backgrounds or created with our templates (Cinema4D, Unity, Adobe Premiere Pro)
16″ $2000 usd
27″ $4000 usd
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Luma AI releases Ray3 – 16bit HDR, reasoning video model
This is Ray3. The world’s first reasoning video model, and the first to generate studio-grade HDR. Now with an all-new Draft Mode for rapid iteration in creative workflows, and state of the art physics and consistency. Available now for free in Dream Machine.
Ray3’s native HDR delivers studio-grade fidelity. It generates video in 10, 12 & 16-bit high dynamic range with details in shadows and highlights in vivid color. Convert SDR to HDR, export EXR for seamless integration and unprecedented control in post-production workflows.
Reasoning enables Ray3 to understand nuanced directions, think in visuals and language tokens, and judge its generations to give you reliably better results. With Ray3 you can create more complex scenes, intricate multi-step motion, and do it all faster.
With reasoning, Ray3 can interpret visual annotations enabling creatives to now draw or scribble on images to direct performance, blocking, and camera movement. Refine motion, objects, and composition for precise visual control, all without prompting.
Draft Mode is a new way to iterate video ideas, fast. Explore ideas in a state of flow and get to your perfect shot. With Ray3’s new Hi-Fi diffusion pass, master your best shots into production-ready high-fidelity 4K HDR footage. 5x faster. 5x cheaper. 100x more fun.
Ray3 offers production-ready fidelity, high octane motion, preserved anatomy, physics simulations, world exploration, complex crowds, interactive lighting, caustics, motion blur, photorealism, and detail nuance, delivering visuals ready for high-end creative production pipelines.Ray3 is an intelligent video model designed to tell stories. Ray3 is capable of thinking and reasoning in visuals and offers state of the art physics and consistency. In a world’s first, Ray3 generates videos in 16bit High Dynamic Range color bringing generative video to pro studio pipelines.The all-new Draft Mode enables you to explore many more ideas, much faster and tell better stories than ever before.
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AI and the Law – Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and NBCUniversal sue Chinese AI firm MiniMax
On Tuesday, the three media companies filed a lawsuit against MiniMax, a Chinese AI company that is reportedly valued at $4 billion, alleging “willful and brazen” copyright infringement
MiniMax operates Hailuo AI
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Mariko Mori – Kamitate Stone at Sean Kelly Gallery
Mariko Mori, the internationally celebrated artist who blends technology, spirituality, and nature, debuts Kamitate Stone I this October at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. The work continues her exploration of luminous form, energy, and transcendence.
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Vimeo Enters into Definitive Agreement to Be Acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38 Billion
The OG video hosting company is being acquired by Bending Spoons, the same company that bought WeTransfer and quietly changed terms to let them use your content for AI training.
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ByteDance Seedream 4.0 – Super‑fast, 4K, multi image support
https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedream4_0
➤ Super‑fast, high‑resolution results : resolutions up to 4K, producing a 2K image in less than 1.8 seconds, all while maintining sharpness and realism.
➤ At 4K, cost as low as 0.03 $ per generation.
➤ Natural‑language editing – You can instruct the model to “remove the people in the background,” “add a helmet” or “replace this with that,” and it executes without needing complicated prompts.
➤ Multi‑image input and output – It can combine multiple images, transfer styles and produce storyboards or series with consistent characters and themes.
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Top 3D Printing Website Resources
The Holy Grail – https://github.com/ad-si/awesome-3d-printing
- Thingiverse – https://www.thingiverse.com/
- Makerworld – https://makerworld.com/
- Printables – https://www.printables.com/
- Cults – https://cults3d.com/
- CG Trader – https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-print-models
- Sketchfab – https://sketchfab.com/store/3d-models/stl
- 3D Export – https://3dexport.com/
- MyMiniFactory – https://www.myminifactory.com/
- Thangs – https://thangs.com/
- Yeggi – https://www.yeggi.com/
- FAB365 – https://fab365.net/
- Gambody – https://www.gambody.com/
- All3DP News – https://all3dp.com/
- TCT Magazine – https://www.tctmagazine.com/topics/3D-printing-news/
- 3DPrint.com – https://3dprint.com/
- NASA 3D Models – https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models/printable
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copypastecharacter.com – alphabets, special characters, alt codes and symbols library
https://www.copypastecharacter.com
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/alt-codes-special-characters-keyboard-symbols-windows-list/
Most used ones:
Alt + 0149 • bullet point
Alt + 0153 ™ trademark symbol
Alt + 0169 © copyright symbol
Alt + 0174 ® registered trademark symbol
Alt + 0176 ° degree symbol
Alt + 0177 ± plus-or-minus sign
Alt + 0215 × multiplication sign
Alt + 12 ♀ female sign
Alt + 11 ♂ male sign
Alt + 13 ♪ eighth note
Alt + 14 ♫ beamed eighth note
Alt + 251 √ square root check mark
Alt + 8236 ∞ infinity
Alt + 24 ↑ up arrow
Alt + 25 ↓ down arrow
Alt + 26 → right arrow
Alt + 27 ← left arrow
Alt + 29 ↔ left right arrow
Alt + 94 ^All of them:
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FXGuide – ACES 2.0 with ILM’s Alex Fry
https://draftdocs.acescentral.com/background/whats-new/
ACES 2.0 is the second major release of the components that make up the ACES system. The most significant change is a new suite of rendering transforms whose design was informed by collected feedback and requests from users of ACES 1. The changes aim to improve the appearance of perceived artifacts and to complete previously unfinished components of the system, resulting in a more complete, robust, and consistent product.
Highlights of the key changes in ACES 2.0 are as follows:
- New output transforms, including:
- A less aggressive tone scale
- More intuitive controls to create custom outputs to non-standard displays
- Robust gamut mapping to improve perceptual uniformity
- Improved performance of the inverse transforms
- Enhanced AMF specification
- An updated specification for ACES Transform IDs
- OpenEXR compression recommendations
- Enhanced tools for generating Input Transforms and recommended procedures for characterizing prosumer cameras
- Look Transform Library
- Expanded documentation
Rendering Transform
The most substantial change in ACES 2.0 is a complete redesign of the rendering transform.
ACES 2.0 was built as a unified system, rather than through piecemeal additions. Different deliverable outputs “match” better and making outputs to display setups other than the provided presets is intended to be user-driven. The rendering transforms are less likely to produce undesirable artifacts “out of the box”, which means less time can be spent fixing problematic images and more time making pictures look the way you want.
Key design goals
- Improve consistency of tone scale and provide an easy to use parameter to allow for outputs between preset dynamic ranges
- Minimize hue skews across exposure range in a region of same hue
- Unify for structural consistency across transform type
- Easy to use parameters to create outputs other than the presets
- Robust gamut mapping to improve harsh clipping artifacts
- Fill extents of output code value cube (where appropriate and expected)
- Invertible – not necessarily reversible, but Output > ACES > Output round-trip should be possible
- Accomplish all of the above while maintaining an acceptable “out-of-the box” rendering
- New output transforms, including:
