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Luma raises $4.3M to make 3D models as easy as waving a phone around

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The company has developed a new neural rendering technology that makes it possible to take a small number of photos to generate, shade and render a photo-realistic 3D model of a product. In other words: you can see a 3D image of the product you’re considering in a VR headset. Image Credits: Luma.

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Avataar raises $45 million to improve consumer shopping experience with life-sized 3D product evaluation

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Avataar helps direct-to-consumer brands and e-commerce marketplaces with shaping their consumer journeys with 3D rendition of products. A virtual rendition of a refrigerator allows users to open and close the door, for instance. If you’re seeing 3D on a big large-volume service, it’s likely powered by us,” he said. Avataar.me

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

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From 1,300 applicants, the company picked its first cohort to start building opportunities with the startups. – Tech-enabled, virtual respiratory care provider that makes it easy to take the unknown and unmanageable out of respiratory illness and give control back to the patients suffering from it. CurieAi, Inc. The Metaverse.

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Bring your most productive self to work

CIO

Power If you’re like many people, you use a multitude of applications. HP ZBook laptops are built to support the heaviest workloads, including 3D design, animation and data visualization solutions. Connectivity Chances are you’re conducting to more virtual meetings than ever before.

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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

CIO

Chat applications such as ChatGPT have made strong headway, as have image-generators such as DALL-E 3, capturing the imagination of businesses everywhere. Using Mesos, organizations can share resources more efficiently across multiple applications, and the tool is designed to scale with organizations as their resources grow.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

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Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). One of the first applications for CUDA was in oil and gas exploration, processing the mountains of data from geological surveys.

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Quality Assurance Approach towards Virtual Reality (VR)

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Virtual Reality Virtual Reality (VR) is an immersive media experience replicating either a real or imagined environment and allowing users to interact with the environment. Unlike the conventional user interface of displaying content on a screen, VR immerses a person to interact in a digital 3D environment.

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