After pandemic struggles, Technicolor is bulking up VFX business in Culver City
Technicolor Creative Studios is establishing a new Culver City campus, boosted by the return of production and demand from streamers for its visual effects services.
The office, which is expected to open in July, includes a four-story, 60,000-square-foot main building and a 4,750-square-foot virtual production space located on Washington Boulevard, the company said.
See the full story here: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2022-04-01/technicolor-culver-city?_amp=true&fbclid=IwAR1HlXr3p6nF6jsfWSEj33YxKMTnl1RsP8k1oriPR_azZ83VCwmmTKoW8rk
Solis Introduces The World’s First Film NFT Marketplace
... Overall, Solis Marketplace offers highly sought-after NFTs to access unique and rare Hollywood content, experiences, and items. Moreover, this Marketplace will provide ‘royalty-backed’ and fractionalized NFTs, offering audiences and producers alike access to Solis’ income.
Audiences and producers alike will gain access to Solis’ revenue distribution. Not only will they be able to aid in the greenlighting of projects via direct investments, but they will have the opportunity to participate in the revenues and even have executive and directorial control over the tales being presented ...
Solis’ token serves as the foundation for a digital suite that will enable artists and their communities to connect, produce, interact, and participate in the material that matters most to them. Moving forward, owners will have access to a plethora of opportunities, including the Perpetual secondary NFT sales revenue, collect royalties, access DeFi applications, store their NFTs, earn Solis tokens and participate in NFT airdrops. ...
See the full story here: https://disruptmagazine.com/solis-introduces-the-worlds-first-film-nft-marketplace/
Solis's website - http://www.solis.io
5 WAYS BRANDS CAN MASTER METAVERSE PR
Learn who is covering the space
If you want to earn press in this space, you’re going to need to get to know the reporters and publications that are covering the metaverse on a daily basis. Start exploring national publications, such as WIRED, TechCrunch, Mashable, Fast Company and more focused titles, like MetaverseMagazine, Cointelegraph and CoinDesk, today if you haven’t already.
Talk the metaverse talk
See the full story here: https://adage.com/article/opinion/5-ways-brands-can-master-metaverse-pr/2408876
Very useful Glossary - https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/the-web3-metaverse-glossary-a-keyword-guide-to-the-tech-future-42afedd9c3c0#87ba
Two University of Waterloo researchers receive grants to help build metaverse
Waking up in the morning to find your sleep cycle organized into a graph on your bed’s headboard and then having buttons appear on your coffee cup to connect you to your social media accounts could all be possible in a virtual world known as the metaverse.
Achieved using augmented reality glasses, a University of Waterloo lab is a small step closer to realizing these virtual concepts, thanks to a $30,000 grant from Meta’s Reality Labs Research in Toronto.
See the full story here: https://www.therecord.com/business/technology/2022/03/30/two-university-of-waterloo-researchers-receive-grants-to-help-build-metaverse.html
7 augmented reality toys to help your children start living in the future
1. MERGE Cube
It gives students the equivalent of $10,000 in teaching materials, allowing them to learn at any time and in any location. Your children can use the Merge Cube to upload, view, and share user-created 3D models, which allows students to find problems sooner and iterate faster in order to produce better designs.
2. Imagimake Mapology World AR
See the full story here: https://interestingengineering.com/7-augmented-reality-toys
What is Autonomous AI?
Autonomous artificial intelligence is defined as routines designed to allow robots, cars, planes and other devices to execute extended sequences of maneuvers without guidance from humans. The revolution in artificial intelligence (AI) has reached a stage when current solutions can reliably complete many simple, coordinated tasks. Now the goal is to extend this capability by developing algorithms that can plan ahead and build a multistep strategy for accomplishing more. ...
Autonomous operation often requires imagining a number of potential outcomes for the future, anticipating possible problems and then setting a course of action that minimizes the dangers while maximizing some other factor like speed or reliability. ...
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it is common to break the job into these layers.
- Sensing — Building a model of the constantly shifting world requires a collection of sensors that are usually cameras and often controlled lighting from lasers or other sources. The sensors usually also include position information from GPS or some other independent mechanism.
- Fusion — The details from the various sensors must be organized into a single, coherent view of what’s happening around the vehicle. Some images may be occluded. Some may be failing. They may not always be consistent. The sensor fusion algorithms must sort through the details and construct a reliable model that can be used in later stages for planning.
- Perception — After the model is constructed, the system must begin to identify important areas like any roads or paths or moving objects.
- Planning — Finding the best path forward requires studying the model and also importing information from other sources like mapping software, weather forecasts, traffic sensors and more.
- Control — After a path is chosen, any device must ensure that the motors and steering work to move along the path without being diverted by bumps or small obstacles.
See the full article here: https://venturebeat.com/2022/03/31/what-is-autonomous-ai/
Sexual harassment training is outdated. VR might be a fix.
... “It's one thing to verbalize and to tell somebody what something feels like or what happened,” said Morgan Mercer, founder and CEO of VR training company Vantage Point. “It's a completely different thing for somebody to be in that lived experience, to embody it and to feel the same thing.”
VR can't cross that chasm entirely, but it's a start. Studies tell a similar story: A PwC survey from last year found that VR learners felt 275% more confident in applying learned skills after training, as well as 3.75 times more emotionally connected to the content when compared to classroom-based learning. ...
See the full story here: https://www.protocol.com/workplace/vr-sexual-harassment-training
Looking Through Mojo Vision’s Newest AR Contact Lens
With batteries, motion sensors, and a microLED on board, Mojo lets me try out its first apps
... But since that last demo in 2020, the engineering team has moved from wireless power to batteries on board, increased the resolution of the display from 8,000 pixels per inch to 14,000, thinned commercial motion sensors and developed its own radio and power management, and created several apps. Image sensors—a feature of earlier demos that showed off edge detection in low light and other vision enhancements—have yet to be built into the current prototype, though Sinclair says that they are in the works, and that the company is continuing to test apps for people with low vision and still expects them to be among the earliest customers for the device. ...
The battery is in the outer ring, embedded in the lens. ...
See the full article and interview here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/looking-through-mojo-visions-newest-ar-contact-lens
