VR

Generative AI

Microsoft’s New AI: Virtual Humans Became Real! 🤯

Two Minute Papers examines the paper “3D Face Reconstruction with Dense Landmarks” in the following video. Fun fact, I remember seeing an early version of this research at the last MLADS conference I attended in 2019.

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Blockchain Cryptocurrency Livestream Virtual Reality

Metaverse Mondays: The End of NFTs?

Metaverse Monday livestream. Are NFTs dead? Probably not. Are NFTs still going to be worth millions? Definitely not.

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Virtual Reality

The Curious Case of Virtual Reality

This was originally published on LinkedIn. Few technologies have intrigued me the way that Virtual Reality (VR) has. Fewer still have kept my attention as long as VR has. My first exposure to VR was the film “The Lawnmower Man.” It was cheesy 90’s science fiction, but it was thought provoking. An ordinary person could […]

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Video Production Virtual Reality

Cheap Motion Capture using Oculus Quest

Cheap Motion Capture using Oculus Quest and Mocap Fusion called APS (Animation Prep Studio) Luxor. It allows you to create motion capture using a VR device, in this video we are using a Oculus Quest 2 but it also works with the Valve VR head set and additional trackers.

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Cryptocurrency Virtual Reality

Decentraland: The virtual land selling for millions – BBC Stories

Investors are spending real money to buy land in a new city that only exists in virtual reality. Buyers can build whatever they want on their plots in Decentraland. Many hope to make a profit trading goods and services in the virtual world’s own crypto currency. But will Decentraland be an online utopia or a […]

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AI Computer Vision Virtual Reality

This AI Creates Virtual Fingers

Two Minute Papers examins the  paper “ManipNet: Neural Manipulation Synthesis with a Hand-Object Spatial Representation.”

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Virtual Reality

Get Started with Oculus Quest 2 Development – Part 1: Oculus Developer Account

In this tutorial learn how to get started in VR development on the Oculus platform by signing up for an Oculus developer account, on which we will set up a developer Organization. This is required in order to activate ‘Developer Mode’ on your Quest 2.

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