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a16z-backed Rooms.xyz lets you build interactive, 3D rooms and simple games in your browser

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A team of ex-Googlers is today launching a new digital creativity platform, Rooms.xyz , into beta testing. ” Image Credits: Rooms.xyz The idea for Rooms was inspired by a combination of factors, explains co-founder Jason Toff — namely, that 3D model creation today was far too difficult.

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Gravity Sketch draws $33M for a platform to design, collaborate on and produce 3D objects

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Now, a company called Gravity Sketch has taken that concept into 3D, leveraging tools like virtual reality headsets to let designers and others dive into and better visualize a product’s design as it’s being made; and the London-based startup is today announcing $33 million in funding to take its own business to the next dimension. .

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Virtual dressing room startup Revery.ai applying computer vision to the fashion industry

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students Kedan Li, Jeffrey Zhang and Min Jin Chong, is creating what they consider to be the first tool using existing catalog images to process at a scale of over a million garments weekly, something previous versions of virtual dressing rooms had difficulty doing, Li told TechCrunch. co-founders Jeffrey Zhang, Min Jin Chong and Kedan Li.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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Similarly, clothing brand Under Armour recently produced an ad that used AI-generated 3D models of the British boxer Anthony Joshua, based on videos they took of him in the past. Helping software developers write and test code Similarly in tech, companies are currently open about some of their use cases, but protective of others.

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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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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). Although Nvidia’s first chips were used to enhance 3D gaming, the manufacturing industry is also interested in 3D simulations, and its pockets are deeper.

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Sneaker fit startup Neatsy.ai gets $1M seed after B2B pivot

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Neasty’s approach relies on 3D scanning technology found in the iPhone X or later (aka, the TruthDepth camera for FaceID) — so (currently) it only works for a subset of iOS users. Neatsy wants to reduce sneaker returns with 3D foot scans. But it’s eyeing expanding its fit recommendations with the seed funding.

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