Spinal surgery via Hololens 2 shows the future of medicine

Image: MIXED Der Artikel kann nur mit aktiviertem JavaScript dargestellt werden. Bitte aktiviere JavaScript in deinem Browser und lade die Seite neu. A successful operation at the renowned Stanford Medicine shows how surgeons can use AR in the future. For years, Stanford Medicine has been working with Surgical Theater to explore new ways to use …

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VideoRF paves the way for real-time 3D streaming on smartphones and VR headsets

Summary Researchers have introduced VideoRF, a new approach to streaming dynamic NeRF scenes on various devices, including mobile platforms. Neural Radiation Fields (NeRFs) allow highly detailed 3D representations of scenes to be generated from a series of 2D images. Older methods have difficulty rendering moving scenes and are resource-intensive. However, there are now variants of …

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Google shows off impressive AI zoom

Maximilian Schreiner Max is managing editor at THE DECODER. As a trained philosopher, he deals with consciousness, AI, and the question of whether machines can really think or just pretend to. With Generative Power of Tens, researchers demonstrate a method enabling “extreme semantic zooms” from wide-angle views to macro shots. Unlike traditional super-resolution methods, the …

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Thrasher is a follow-up to Thumper and it looks mesmerizing

Image: Puddle Der Artikel kann nur mit aktiviertem JavaScript dargestellt werden. Bitte aktiviere JavaScript in deinem Browser und lade die Seite neu. The VR game Thumper is getting a spiritual successor in 2024 with equally stunning visuals and music. In Thumper, you control a beetle racing down a track, performing daring maneuvers by pressing sequences …

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Google took a “fake it till you make it” approach to demonstrating Gemini’s multimodal capabilities

Summary A staged demo video leaves developers and employees in doubt about the true capabilities of Google’s new Gemini language model. In the video, titled “Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI,” Google shows off the AI model’s impressive voice interaction and real-time visual response capabilities. After the demonstration, however, it turned out that the …

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Meta’s Codec Avatars become more lifelike thanks to Gaussian splatting

Image: Meta Der Artikel kann nur mit aktiviertem JavaScript dargestellt werden. Bitte aktiviere JavaScript in deinem Browser und lade die Seite neu. Meta is experimenting with Gaussian splatting to make Codec Avatars look even more realistic than before. With Codec Avatars, Meta hopes to one day enable photorealistic telepresence. The technology relies on VR headsets …

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Resident Evil Village has won the award for Best VR Game at The Game Awards 2023

VR Games 0 TICKER Dec 08 2023 Josef Erl Der Artikel kann nur mit aktiviertem JavaScript dargestellt werden. Bitte aktiviere JavaScript in deinem Browser und lade die Seite neu. Resident Evil Village VR won the award for Best VR/AR Game at The Game Awards, beating out Gran Turismo 7, Horizon Call of the Mountain, Humanity …

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AlphaCode 2 is the hidden champion of Google’s Gemini project

Summary With Gemini, Google also presented AlphaCode 2. The code model outperformed 85 % of human programmers in a competition. In February 2022, Deepmind unveiled AlphaCode, an AI that writes code at a competitive level. Unlike OpenAI’s Codex, AlphaCode was based on a Transformer-based encoder-decoder model. AlphaCode’s largest model had 41.4 billion parameters and was …

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