... The big picture: EnterGeneration Alpha, the first entirely online cohort. Its members have grappled with a climate crisis and pandemic — and can spend money more easily at their age than even their savviest close elders. ...
43% of millennial parents say their kids have had a virtual playdate or hung out with friends in virtual spaces, per YPulse.(Not just on Zoom — Minecraft playdates are a thing.) ...
The girl, who is aged under 16, was using a headset to access a VR room when adult men attacked her avatar.
She was not injured given the assault happened within an immersive reality game, but she is said to be psychologically and emotionally traumatised.
Details about the case have reportedly been kept under wraps to protect the child amid concern a prosecution for the online assault is not viable.
It has led to questions over whether police time is being wasted investigating such problems when it has a backlog of real rape cases to deal with.
But home secretary James Cleverly told LBC's Nick Ferrari at Breakfast: "I know it is easy to dismiss this as being not real, but the whole point of these virtual environments is they are incredibly immersive. ...
I Am Nobody is a refreshing blend of martial arts, mystical sorcery, and multi-tiered humor, offering a satisfying surprise for American audiences with its free availability on YouTube.
The introduction of an AI-generated actress in the series sparks curiosity and intrigue, but her role is minor and not visually revolutionary.
While AI innovation is making strides in the entertainment industry, I Am Nobody proves that human actors still play a crucial role and won't be replaced by computer creations anytime soon.
Displace made a splash at CES 2023 with its truly wireless TV that could be mounted anywhere, even suction-cupped to a window. The company’s demo left us with a lot of questions as it wasn’t yet ready to discuss key details of the product since what it showed off were CES-specific prototypes. The company is returning to Vegas this year and it’s already announced what it plans to have on display.
First, Displace says two sizes of TVs will be demoed: the 27-inch Displace Mini and the 55-inch Displace Flex. The display we saw earlier this year was also 55 inches, but a key difference between it and the Flex is that this new version attaches to an optional magnetic wireless charging stand. Both the Flex and the Mini pack enough battery life to last a month if you watch six hours of content per day, according to the company. There’s no pricing available for these yet, but they go up for pre-order on January 9, so we’re bound to find out soon. Displace said it will also show off a 110-inch model at CES, although details are scarce.
... Like most of OpenAI’s newest drops, only those with a $20-a-month subscription to ChatGPT Plus are allowed to experiment with the GPT builder. (GPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer.) ...
He described GPTs as a fine-tuned version of ChatGPT that’s crafted with a specific purpose in mind. The customizable chatbot can be fed unique instructions to guide its answers and additional data for further context. ...
Whenever you’re ready to embark on your own creative adventure, return to this page and click Create a GPT. Your screen will split in half: the left side is where you’re building the tool, and the ride side displays an interactive preview of your GPT. ...
here’s where the ability to upload more data comes into play. Under Knowledge, you can choose Upload files. I saved a bunch of my WIRED articles as PDFs to feed into the machine. Be careful not to upload any sensitive or private information to your custom chatbot. ...
WESTERN SHORT MOVIE / Midjourney V6 + Runway Gen-2. Midjourney released their V6 beta yesterday so i figured out I could test it by making a short film exclusively with images I could generate over there. Since everybody is making Scifi and fantasy AI, I went with my favorite genre: western.
In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court reached a monumental decision holding that Andy Warhol’s painting of Prince infringed the copyright of the photograph it was based on. In 2024, keep an eye on how lower courts interpret and apply the 2023 Supreme Court decision, and expect that the fair use defense may be pared back significantly. With this, we may see significant impacts on cases involving the right of publicity that traditionally employed the “transformative” defense, which may be reversed, with the defense transitioning to question the actual new use of the image. ...
This year saw several different takes on live broadcasts catered to younger audiences and Millennial/Gen-Z nostalgia with the NHL’s Big City Greens Classic and ESPN’s Toy Story Funday Football. Other digital content innovations saw enhancements for how we watch games with the augmented reality in the ManningCast, as well as a team up between NFL+ and Genius Sports.
... It was a powerful experience—somewhere between the old-school pleasures of a planetarium and the immediacy of virtual reality (more thrilling without the headset!)—and nonetheless disorienting. ...
... it overnight became one of the biggest venues in the world for video art. (Exosphere, the name for Sphere’s exterior screen, is the perfect canvas for images of eyeballs or globes, but otherwise not as powerful.) ...
... only Brambilla and Devlin’s work were stylistically distinct enough to read as artworks. Brambilla stitched together over a thousand movie clips referencing Elvis and Vegas to create one of his characteristic scrolling video tapestries, the Bosch-like delirium of imagery being his recognisable signature at this point. And Devlin created an awe-inspiring digital tapestry featuring 26 hand-drawn examples of fantastic-looking but real species in Nevada on the verge of extinction, which grew from her Come Home Againinstallation in the gardens of the Tate Modern. The other artworks were largely subsumed by the concert theatrics, Sphere being a great leveller of video art in much the way the internet is with photography. Who cares about authorship when a flood of stunning images is washing over you?...
The unexpected appearance of this night-time Vegas scene was probably the most powerful example of Sphere technology in action. Suddenly the band seemed to be playing in front of the real, blinking city skyline complete with its colour-shifting Ferris Wheel instead of in front a screen picturing such things. Out of some stubborn journalistic habit I asked who created that piece, and it turned out to be a team at George Lucas’s visual effects company Industrial Light and Magic. And there it was, the category that best describes Sphere’s leading video art and special effects alike, the condition that so much digital imagery today aspires to: magic.
