Encausse.net - Weekly #121

Augmented Shadow 👤, Fitness 2.0 🏃, Quantum-NLP 🧠, Fast-NRF 🫣, LightCasting Frame🖼️, Showrunner Agents 🎭, and many more ...

Hello everyone,
This week, I received the LeapMotion 2 that helps touchless interraction on screens or VR. Many very creative usecases like LookingGlass, virtual avatar or BigScreen glasses, … need time to play with that (SkarredGhost’s unboxing) :-)

By the way, I digitalize my voice with latest Azure Speech model and will play with new announce azure features: Llama2, Whisper, …

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Technologies

• High-temperature superconducting tape is behind one hope for a tinier tokamak
  I strongly believe in Fusion Reactor in 5-8 years that will blow-up all the ecology trends and a big shift to electricity (with side effect with petrol, solar, …)

• Quantum Natural Language Processing to grasp subtle nuances in textual data

• This Alien-Looking Airship Design Used A Propulsion Method Unlike Any Other

🧠 Articial Intelligence

• Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds very very very dense article trying to humanize Minds in Rulial Space.

• Superhuman’s Ultimate 100 AI Tools from SuperHuman newsletter. Worth checking the quality.

• SkeletonMAE: Graph-based Masked Autoencoder for Skeleton Sequence Pre-train. An Efficient Framework for Action Recognition

• Creating a branded AI voice that conveys emotions and speaks multiple languages

• NVIDIA : Neuralangelo: High-Fidelity Neural Surface Reconstruction see also SDF Studio

• F2-NeRF: Fast Neural Radiance Field Training with Free Camera Trajectories see also NERFs to an OpenXR Renderer close to real-time on a VR headset

🕹️ Alterningate Realities

Microsoft Teams is adding Maybelline’s AI-powered ‘makeup’ filters

• Commission presents EU strategy to lead on Web 4.0 and virtual worlds
  LOL ! EU wants to lead many technologies but Startup success comes from Business nor Funding …

• Sony is seeking to patent a technique for “combining (a) user's face with (a) game character.” (via PatentDrop)

• Very interesting tweet from Pixotronics (awesome 3D engine) about Kartiv that use ThreeJS to shoot Marketing Image like a tool for you Shoppify (genius !) Imagine you add some Matterport flavor !

• Fully AI-Generated Influencers Are Getting Thousands of Reactions Per Thirst Trap very interesting discussion about the role of human and bots on social media. And what about the place of real women ???

• Lumine.AI, the group behind instaVerse, an AI-powered 3D asset generator and visualizer that creates explorable worlds directly from text input.

• MERF: Memory-Efficient Radiance Fields for Real-time View Synthesis in Unbounded Scenes

• HyperReel allows you to convert videos into 3D scenes, choosing to navigate through time, space, or both at the same time!

• NerfDiff: Single-image View Synthesis with NeRF-guided Distillation from 3D-aware Diffusion

🤖 Internet of Things

• In Bed With Social : The Transformative Shift in Fitness Culture about smart yoga mats (saw at CES) connected socks. Like idea of mon Q club !

• ESP32-Powered Tabletop Kinetic Sand Drawing Robot
  I backed a kickstarter to do the same (want to mix with GenerativeAI)

• This LiDAR-equipped, 30-pound robot dog can be yours for $1,600

Business

So the next big thing is beauty bar ? instead of clothing store. Interesting this mix fashion x beauty.

• Perfect Corp. partners with Dufry to bring AR makeup virtual try-on experience to European airports

• 🇫🇷 IA evolve in Insurance from Computer Vision on cars to House.
  Nagarro has developed impressive project using AI for insurance on Cars. This is a new opportunity in France with Earthquakes.

• 🇫🇷 Gucci will sell Generative AI with Christie’s the same day Kering take +5% with the CEO of Gucci quitting.

• Mixing AI and Clothing design software could be a game changer

• DocuSeal : Open source document filling and signing
  Yes but the key feature is trust vs regulation not OpenSouce.

Inspiration

• IKEA Hacker : DIY Barbie Dream House: How to turn a Bookcase into a Doll House

• Great UX with augmented Shadow in projection mapping experience. Love it !

💡 Do It Yourself

• 7 JavaScript Powerful Optimization Tricks You Need To Know
  Did not know the for-in and ?. operator. It optimize length but not perf/bugs.

• This Picture Frame Transformed with LED Lights Will Blow Your Mind! (see also here)
  I love it ! So cool ! Add an ESP-32 AMOLED and Generative Images :-P

• Ruined Archway Portal - Calling Portals
  Oh I have 2 ideas for my tabletop game with this concept !

• JavaScript Performance Monitor for ThreeJS from an Expert

• Stable Diffusion for Node.js with GPU acceleration on Cuda or DirectML see also StableDiffusion on WebGPU

• JS : Standardized Audio Context : need to upgrade the SmartMirror

Medias (Audio & Video)

Love this french ads surfing on ChatGPT MEME that probably be designed using Generative AI or at least Photoshop …

• A recent Verge survey shows that less than 60% of Americans are familiar with or have used ChatGPT, despite media coverage !!!

• To Infinity and Beyond: SHOW-1 and Showrunner Agents in Multi-Agent Simulations VERY impressive demo of Showrunner generating character text, scene, etc ... (related tweet)

• Generative AI : Game of Throne X StarWars

🎧 Podcast

• 🇫🇷 RDV Tech 522 – Spécial : Portrait de Cédric Ingrand
  Happy to meet Cédric for years at some events (when he is not into press room)

• 🇫🇷 How Huawei reborn with a business model shift to Energy instead of Data and to Automotive.

🕹️ Gaming

• Netflix’s Next Act Is Investing in Video Games
  I hope it will be a big kick in the ass of Ubisoft that is weak for last 2 years.

• Another World on FPGA

Stats & Quotes

Full infography of How have Americans drinking habits changed?

• 117,000 misdirected messages from US army mistypiping .ml instead of .mil
  Dutch army use army.nl (one keystroke away)

• Voice actors are worried about modders cloning their voices with AI
  I bet the next step will be generated voice that will no longer require the source actor

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