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Vectary, a design platform for 3D and AR, raises $7.3M from EQT and BlueYard

TechCrunch

Vectary , a design platform for 3D and augmented reality (AR), has raised a $7.3 Vectary makes high-quality 3D design more accessible for consumers, garnering over one million creators worldwide, and has more than a thousand digital agencies and creative studios as users. Google wakes up from its VR daydream. million Series A.

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Y Combinator-backed Poly uses AI to generate art assets

TechCrunch

One of the more interesting ventures to emerge from the space recently is Poly, which lets designers create video game and other virtual assets, including textures for 3D models, using only text prompts. Poly’s first tool in its planned web-based suite generates 3D textures with physically-based rendering maps.

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Thinking of hibernating through the metaverse winter?

CIO

Some examples are interacting in marketplaces to purchase virtual goods or services, playing games, exploring museums or gardens, touching or seeing 3D versions of objects, hiking, attending conferences or musical events, painting, and composing music. Alternate identities : Personas or representations of users in digital form.

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AI creative platform D-ID, the tech behind those viral videos of animated family photos, raises $25M

TechCrunch

Deep Nostalgia and LiveStory, both collaborations with MyHeritage, helped put D-ID’s name on the map, as the resulting animations went viral across social media platforms like TikTok, thanks to users sharing their emotional reactions to seeing their loved ones again in this new format. We’re excited for what the future holds.”

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Is the metaverse inching closer to reality?

Capgemini

What the metaverse represents for the world today is essentially the evolution of the internet to a 3D immersive platform. Many of us will be overly familiar with the 2D environment of a video call, where some people prefer to stay off-camera and social cues can be limited by technical issues. Distance negatively impacts collaboration.

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Radar trends to watch: August 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OpenAI’s GPT-2 natural language generation has now been trained to generate images , a significant step forward in the creation of realistic fake video. Spacial perception for robotics : Identifying objects is easy, but building a model of a 3D scene is difficult, and an essential problem for general-purpose robotics. Programming.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

After 2 months in an underground shelter they have also used their technology to register evidence of war crimes and provide the ability to immerse oneself into Ukraine to experience it, it’s now developing applications for psychological trauma treatment, VR medical trainin, combat surveillance systems and making the de-mining process safer.