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Google previews Project Starline, a next-gen 3D video chat booth

The Verge

Google is working on a next-gen video chat booth that makes the person you’re chatting with appear in front of you in 3D. The system is called “ Project Starline ,” and it’s basically a really, really fancy video chat setup. In a demo video, people using the tech describe seeing people like they were in the same room together.

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Google AI researchers use mannequin challenge YouTube videos to improve depth prediction

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Google AI researchers today said they used 2,000 “mannequin challenge” YouTube videos as a training data set to create an AI model capable of depth prediction from videos in motion. Applications of such an understanding could help developers craft augmented reality experiences in scenes shot with hand-held cameras and 3D video.

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Microsoft is planning 3D metaverse apps for Xbox and gaming

The Verge

Microsoft just announced its Microsoft Teams metaverse for meetings and video calls, but the company also has plans for gaming and entertainment. In some sense, they’re 2D today, and the question is can you now take that to a full 3D world, and we absolutely plan to do so.”. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Image: Microsoft.

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DAM Is A Key Ingredient For Your Digital Experience Delivery

Forrester IT

experiences on their digital channels using assets like video or even 3D renderings, an increasing number have turned to digital asset management (DAM) to better manage the […]. Digital customer experience has become a top-3 growing priority according to our recent COVID-19 Service Provider Pulse Survey.

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Epic Games buys Seattle-area video game development toolmaker RAD

GeekWire

If you’ve played any video game that was made in the last 21 years or so, there’s a good chance the game was using RAD’s Bink tool to encode its video files. Bink has quietly powered an incredible number of games’ video cutscenes over the last 21 years or so. Epic Games Image).

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Acer’s new SpatialLabs tech brings 3D content to laptop screens

The Verge

Acer has announced SpatialLabs, a new 3D technology that will debut on the company’s ConceptD laptops. Plainly, it’s a set of tools that makes 3D work look very realistic and cool without requiring special glasses to see it. You can swap between 3D mode and 2D mode (where you’ll see two images side by side). Image: Acer.

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More on OnLive: New Cloud Solution Delivers Secure Cross-Platform Deployment for Graphics Intensive Applications

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NEW ONLIVE CLOUD SOLUTION DELIVERS SECURE CROSS-PLATFORM DEPLOYMENT FOR GRAPHICS INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS. OnLive CloudLift Enterprise PaaS provides the first seamless solution for businesses with Graphics Intensive Applications. With this post we provide an update we just saw in their press release at: [link].