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ConocoPhillips enlists 3D printing for supply efficiencies on Alaska’s North Slope

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Carlo had an inkling that 3D printing could really change the game.” Mathur, who held tech chief roles at Staples and Biogen before coming to ConocoPhillips in 2021, is referring to Carlo De Bernardi, a principal engineer at ConocoPhillips responsible for scaling the company’s adoption of 3D printing.

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Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, a 3D-model sharing platform

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Sketchfab has been building a platform to upload, download, view, share, sell and buy 3D assets. Essentially, it is the leading repository for 3D files on the web. That’s why creators either design their own 2D and 3D assets, outsource this process or buy assets directly. Epic Games isn’t disclosing the terms of the deal.

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Nfinite bags $100M to give e-commerce 3D flare

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The company, headquartered in France, has developed a SaaS-based visual e-merchandising platform with tools for creating 3D images for e-commerce. The impact is better imagery to drive more metrics of the product, meaning more conversion and less rate of return, and saving money for customers.

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Daily Crunch: New Point-E AI allows users to generate 3D objects from detailed text prompts

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Making 3D out of text : That’s OpenAI’s new thing as it releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models. And not just any models, Kyle writes — it “generates point clouds, or discrete sets of data points in space that represent a 3D shape — hence the cheeky abbreviation.”. Banish vanity metrics from your startup’s pitch deck.

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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

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The platform uses ball-tracking cameras and 3D radar systems to generate live on-court match data, which is fed into Azure and combined with live score data to reveal insights into serving patterns, returns, and player movements around the court. The ITF partnered with Microsoft in 2021 to power its match insights platform for the BJK Cup.

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SAP aims for more digital and resilient supply chains

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For example, the 3D Product Viewer functions of the SAP Enterprise Product Development solution are now integrated to make all processes, from design and production to service and maintenance, more resilient. Around its digital manufacturing, SAP has also expanded other solutions with additional functions.

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Ensemble raises $100M debut fund to bet on startup teams — but not in the way you think

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” Because the algorithm focuses on teams and not on metrics that may be more or less relevant to specific sectors, it allows Ensemble to be industry agnostic. West said one example of that would be the firm’s investment in 3D home printing startup ICON Technologies.