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Graphic design
fromAxios
2 days ago

"Digital fantasy"; AI hair, makeup put perfection further out of reach

AI-generated content creates unrealistic beauty standards and challenges for artists in the beauty industry.
#virtual-reality
fromThe Drum
2 months ago
Fundraising

A break from reality: Is VR really going to be the next big thing?

Virtual and augmented reality investment is surging, enabling uses beyond gaming—fundraising immersion, film tie-ins, and personalized retail and commerce experiences.
fromeLearning Industry
2 months ago
Education

The Power Of Virtual Reality In Corporate Training

Virtual Reality training improves skill retention, confidence, scalability, and measurable ROI by immersing employees in realistic, risk-free practice environments.
Growth hacking
fromInfoQ
5 days ago

From VR to Flat Screens: Bridging the Input and Immersion Gap

The future of VR and wearables is focused on natural interaction and immersion, despite current market limitations.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

The Science of Seeing Differently Through Virtual Reality

Virtual reality can immerse individuals in experiences of bias, but it may also reinforce existing prejudices if not carefully designed.
fromThe Independent
3 days ago

Directors defend controversial AI resurrection of Val Kilmer

Coerte Voorhees stated, 'We are 100 per cent confident it's really the right move with this specific film, and we're really, really looking forward to everyone being able to judge it for themselves.'
Film
UX design
fromTechCrunch
3 days ago

Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals | TechCrunch

Claude Design allows users to create visuals easily, targeting those without design backgrounds, and complements existing design tools like Canva.
fromFast Company
3 days ago

How AI and education are shaping the future of aesthetics

Aesthetic inspiration is social and collective, but aesthetic results are deeply personal. What works for one face, skin type, or bone structure won't always work for another.
Healthcare
fromTheregister
5 days ago

The only technology that died more times than VR is AI

Neal Stephenson argues that the metaverse is dead, particularly in light of the failure of Meta's Horizon Worlds, which raises significant concerns about the future of virtual reality.
Wearables
Online learning
fromeLearning Industry
5 days ago

What Is Immersive Learning In Corporate Training? Examples, Benefits, And Strategies

Immersive learning enhances corporate training by providing realistic, interactive experiences that improve engagement and on-the-job performance.
#davinci-resolve
Photography
fromEngadget
6 days ago

Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve 21 takes on Adobe Lightroom with a new Photo page

DaVinci Resolve 21 introduces a new Photo page for photo editing, aiming to compete with Lightroom and Photoshop.
fromThe Verge
6 days ago
Graphic design

DaVinci Resolve adds new photo editing tools to take on Lightroom and Photoshop

Photography
fromEngadget
6 days ago

Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve 21 takes on Adobe Lightroom with a new Photo page

DaVinci Resolve 21 introduces a new Photo page for photo editing, aiming to compete with Lightroom and Photoshop.
fromThe Verge
6 days ago
Graphic design

DaVinci Resolve adds new photo editing tools to take on Lightroom and Photoshop

UX design
fromFast Company
3 days ago

Anthropic launches a design tool to take on all the other design tools

Claude Design enables collaboration with AI for creating visual work, catering to both non-designers and designers for efficient prototyping.
Marketing tech
fromwww.housingwire.com
1 week ago

Collov AI design agent adds virtual staging and 360-degree tours

Collov AI Design Agent streamlines photo editing for real estate, allowing agents to enhance images without outsourcing to third-party editors.
#adobe
Graphic design
fromTechRepublic
4 days ago

Adobe Expands Firefly Into AI-Powered Editing Assistant Across Creative Apps

Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant evolves into a creative agent, managing multi-step tasks across various Adobe applications seamlessly.
Graphic design
fromFast Company
5 days ago

Adobe's new Firefly AI Assistant could forever change the way you use its apps

Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant simplifies creative workflows through a chat interface, making design software more accessible and efficient for all users.
Video games
fromInverse
1 week ago

'Project Hail Mary's' Newest Chapter Is Coming From An Unexpected Source

VR gaming offers immersive experiences that transform the player's environment, exemplified by upcoming titles like Project Hail Mary.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

First trailer released for western starring AI version of Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer was cast in 'As Deep As the Grave' before his death, with an AI voice created from his old recordings and a visual deepfake developed in collaboration with his estate.
Film
Mobile UX
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

You can now turn 2D apps into 3D while using the Galaxy XR headset

Android XR introduces auto-spatialization, transforming 2D content into 3D experiences for Galaxy XR headsets.
#ai
fromZDNET
4 weeks ago
Photography

How to get free AI headshots that don't look fake - with Nano Banana 2

Photography
fromZDNET
4 weeks ago

How to get free AI headshots that don't look fake - with Nano Banana 2

AI can create professional-quality headshots from casual photos without the need for a photographer.
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

Today's Atlantic Trivia: Video Games

Nintendo was founded in 1889, the same year the Eiffel Tower opened in Paris, starting as a manufacturer of Japanese playing cards.
Games
Wearables
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

My dream pair of AR gaming glasses needs to have these nine features

Latest AR glasses from Xreal and Viture enhance gaming experiences with features like 3DoF, but no model is perfect for all users.
Graphic design
fromMedium
1 week ago

Practical Guide for Creating Animated Effects with Claude Code

Use specific, clear prompts for Claude Code to create effective animated effects.
fromEngadget
2 weeks ago

Sony's gaming division just bought an AI startup that turns photos into 3D volumes

Following the acquisition, the Cinemersive Labs team will join SIE's Visual Computing Group (VCG) and contribute to our broader efforts in advancing state of the art visual computing within games. This includes applying machine learning to enhance gameplay visuals, improve rendering techniques, and unlock new levels of visual fidelity for players.
Marketing tech
Philosophy
fromApaonline
3 weeks ago

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Aesthetics and Video Games

Video games possess unique aesthetic value that challenges traditional philosophical frameworks of games and fiction.
Graphic design
fromGeeky Gadgets
1 week ago

Inside Seedance 2.0 : The Next Big Shift in AI Video Generation

Seedance 2.0 enhances AI-driven video production with lifelike avatars, precise sound synchronization, and customizable features for diverse industries.
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

The Sims Creator's Audacious Quest to Turn His (and Your) Mind Into a Video Game

"It was like quicksand," he said. His father came around the corner in time to see his arms poking up above the rim, a cartoon character in need of rescue. "I could easily have died."
Games
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

Is AI's visual understanding mostly a 'mirage'? New research suggests so. | Fortune

Anthropic faces significant cybersecurity risks following multiple sensitive data leaks related to its new AI model, Mythos.
Graphic design
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 week ago

Breathtaking Cinematic Illustrations That Will Make You Rethink Sci-Fi Concept Art

Katerina Belikova is a renowned Ukrainian digital illustrator known for her work in science fiction and dark fantasy, particularly with the Star Wars franchise.
Video games
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Nvidia's AI Yassification Feature Gives "Starfield" Character Grotesque "Giga-Nostril"

Nvidia's DLSS 5 feature has faced backlash for its AI-generated alterations, particularly a humorous visual error involving exaggerated facial features.
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Future Sony PlayStation games will use AI to imagine new frames

ML-based frame generation tech is coming to PlayStation platforms, allowing the console to use AI to imagine new frames between the ones it's rendering, creating smoother perceived image quality while typically introducing some amount of lag.
Video games
UX design
fromMedium
1 month ago

The Physics of Great UX: Making Digital Interfaces Feel Real

Building a motion system in product design enhances user experience by aligning with human cognitive expectations and physical principles.
Marketing tech
fromeLearning Industry
1 month ago

D-ID Launches V4 Expressive Visual Agents For Real-Time AI Interaction

D-ID launches V4 Expressive Visual Agents, ultra-high-fidelity AI avatars enabling real-time LLM conversations and enterprise video content with sub-0.5-second latency and 4K resolution.
fromWIRED
1 month ago

This Digital Picture Frame Wants to Bring People Closer to a Holographic Future

Upload any picture or video, and Musubi uses artificial intelligence to extract the most important part and hover it in space as a 3D image within the frame. That could be a video of a child's first steps or a snapshot of a birthday party. The image will be displayed in 3D form, viewable in all its holographic glory across nearly 170 degrees.
Gadgets
Video games
fromDefector
1 month ago

Nvidia Wants To Yassify Video Games | Defector

Nvidia introduced DLSS 5, a generative AI technology for gaming that uses neural rendering to enhance graphics, though early demonstrations show artificial-looking results similar to AI image generation artifacts.
Artificial intelligence
fromMedium
1 month ago

Designers, your next user won't be human

Every SaaS company will transform into agentic-as-a-service platforms, requiring designers to solve fundamental problems in agent interaction, behavior, and user experience as AI agents become central to enterprise software.
fromEngadget
1 month ago

Looking Glass' Musubi showcases its holographic display in a consumer-friendly package

Looking Glass has been doggedly committed to making holographic displays the next big thing since 2019, and with its new Musubi digital photo frame, it might finally be offering its tech at a price that's hard to deny. Musubi is scheduled to start shipping in June, and unlike the company's previous, more developer-focused kits, the company's new display only costs $149.
Gadgets
Film
fromInverse
1 month ago

Pump Up The Volume! The Rise OF Virtual Production - Hollywood's Most Confusing Miracle

Virtual production technology evolved from 1930s rear projection to modern LED walls, revolutionizing how filmmakers create backgrounds while keeping actors stationary on set.
Video games
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Nvidia Ridiculed for "Sloptracing" Feature That Uses AI to Yassify Video Games in Real Time

Nvidia's DLSS 5 AI upscaling feature received overwhelmingly negative backlash from gamers and developers who criticized it for distorting game art styles rather than enhancing visual clarity.
Vue
fromHackernoon
1 month ago

SkyReels-V4 Fixes the Most Uncanny Part of AI Video: Bad Sound Sync | HackerNoon

SkyReels-V4 integrates video and audio generation into a unified multi-modal model, addressing the historical separation of these capabilities in AI systems.
Graphic design
fromForbes
4 weeks ago

Freepik Magnific Precision Signals AI Video's Post-Production Era

Freepik's Magnific Precision tool enhances video upscaling, focusing on improving existing footage quality for commercial content production.
Artificial intelligence
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Reality Splits: Seeing Different Worlds in Mixed Reality

Mixed reality systems create perceptual conflicts when users see different digital objects in shared spaces, reducing collaboration synchrony and increasing mental effort while eroding confidence in joint decisions.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Stunning Daily Renders Blending Cinema 4D And AI Into Otherworldly Scenes by Will Toulan

Dad Gets Tattoo So His 6-Year-Old Daughter Wouldn't Feel Different 21 Watercolors That Show How The Sun And Shadows Change Cities The Designer Reveals His Suggestions for Redesigning Famous Brands Naive, Super: Lovely Paintings by Angela Smyth Creative Spontaneous Sketches of Faces and Figures by Pawe Ponichtera Logo Artists Reinterpreted 38 Of The Most Recognizable Logos With A Single Unbroken Line Artist Paints While Under The Influence Of 20 Different Drugs The Uncannily Realistic Landscapes Of Carolyn H. Edlund
Arts
Tech industry
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Knee-Deep in the CAD: Doom runs inside a design modeler

Doom runs inside the OpenSCAD CAD modeler using a custom Python engine and OpenSCAD animation mode, achieving playable 10–20 FPS block-color rendering.
#apple-vision-pro
fromFast Company
2 months ago

How Google's new AI could change videogames forever

Project Genie, which is currently only available for Google's AI Ultra subscribers, uses AI to build virtual worlds. That sounds interesting, if not necessarily revolutionary. Videogame developers already model and build virtual worlds all the time. Project Genie's simple concept, though, belies the tech's potential impact. The new system, and the Genie 3 model behind it, have the potential to forever change how videogames are built and played.
Software development
France news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Did you solve it? You won't believe these optical illusions!

Olivier Redon creates optical illusions using perspective manipulation, inverted geometry, and ambiguous visual interpretation to deceive perception.
Miscellaneous
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Ailias Lets You Commission Your Own Personal Talking Man in a Box

Ailias, a UK company, creates conversational 3D hologram avatars of historical and current figures that can be delivered in boxes for events, education, and entertainment purposes.
Education
fromeLearning Industry
2 months ago

Bringing Immersive Technologies Into Workforce Training

Immersive technologies (VR, AR, MR) provide safer, hands-on, data-driven training that accelerates practical skill acquisition and improves manufacturing workforce performance.
#mixed-reality
Apple
fromAresluna
2 months ago

How to shoot a screen using a board of keys - Unsung

Mac screenshot shortcuts originated from older shortcut assignments for floppy-ejecting, producing numbering quirks such as screenshots beginning at ⌘⇧3.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

Lenovo's Yoga Book Concept Makes 3D Models Float Above the Screen - Yanko Design

The upper display renders 3D content without glasses, using Lenovo's PureSight Pro Tandem OLED technology to show depth and spatial volume directly on screen. A spacecraft that's been modeled in three dimensions appears to float, with genuine perceived distance between its front and rear planes, rather than sitting flat behind glass.
Gadgets
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

How Procreate Dreams 2 is making animated storytelling more expressive than ever

Each layered element is independent, all housed within one object on your timeline. Multiple elements can be combined into a Flipbook by using the multi-select function. This allows for users to shift, organise, and retime frames.
Graphic design
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Do you believe in magic?

Through the tiny window of short clips on Instagram and TikTok, Mary's world seems enchanting and vast. Bree's work exudes melancholic emotion and ethereal femininity, painting the surfaces of Mary's world in the vibrating style of stop-motion animation, dappled with sparkling light and computer-generated surfaces so convincing it feels like you could pose the model with your own hands. O'Donnell sat down with us to talk a bit about her process creating textures and her life's work making magic real.
Film
Arts
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

three suspended digital screens translate AI imagery into luminous spatial installation

UNFOLD PLANE's spatial installation translates artificial intelligence concepts into an integrated architectural environment using suspended screens, dynamic lighting, and reflective surfaces that respond to visitor movement.
fromGadgets 360
1 month ago

Apple's AI Pendant Said to Use In-House Visual Intelligence Models

According to the latest edition of Gurman's Power On newsletter, the Cupertino-based tech giant is working on its AI visual models to enable the Visual Intelligence features on the rumoured AI pendant, AI smart glasses, and AirPods model with cameras. This will enable the wearables to provide environment-based answers to users and take context-based actions. Gurman adds that Apple intends to make Visual Intelligence and visual models integral to its upcoming wearables.
Apple
UX design
fromMedium
2 months ago

Spatial vibe coding: prototyping immersive reality with AI

AI-driven vibe coding enables rapid prototyping of spatial XR experiences, producing functional 3D canvases with WebXR, frameworks, and production-ready toolchains.
fromComputerworld
1 month ago

With attention shifting to AI smart glasses, VR faces another reality check

"It's not an overstatement to declare another VR winter," said J.P. Gownder, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester. "I think we might even go as far as to say there's only a handful of successful scenarios where people are using VR." This assessment reflects the industry's struggle to find practical applications beyond niche markets.
Gadgets
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Augmented reality is taking center stage in brand marketing

No app required: browser-based AR as the go-to for brand content Web-based AR, or WebAR, will see a significant increase in adoption in 2023. The simple, compelling promise of WebAR is that it allows consumers to access AR content via their browser, from anywhere in the world, with no app required. Whether you're on Android, iOS, or a future headset, all you'll need is web access to engage with the infinite possible experiences brands can bring to life through this technology.
Marketing tech
UX design
fromComputerWeekly.com
2 months ago

Expanding sensory experiences in virtual environments | Computer Weekly

Comprehensively multisensory XR/IRL environments enable inclusive, immersive interactions by combining multiple sensory interfaces, but face technical, cost, and adoption hurdles.
Gadgets
fromZDNET
2 months ago

These XR glasses gave me a 200-inch screen to work with - and have quickly replaced my monitors

RayNeo Air 3s Pro offers brighter HDR display and better audio at half the price of premium XR glasses, with a snap-on light shade instead of electrochromic dimming.
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
2 months ago

Turn your doodles into video clips in minutes with this new AI tool - here's how

Runway's Motion Sketch creates short videos from doodles layered on images, producing impressive results with careful user guidance and requiring a paid Standard account.
UX design
fromNeil Patel
1 month ago

How to Use AI for Graphic Design

AI accelerates design workflows through integrated tools that enhance ideation and iteration while requiring human judgment for brand strategy and final decisions.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness
1 month ago

Image to Image AI: A Smarter Way to Transform and Enhance Visual Content - Business

Image to Image AI transforms existing photos into enhanced or stylized versions using artificial intelligence, eliminating the need for manual editing skills or complex tools.
Artificial intelligence
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

Google Project Genie lets you create interactive worlds from a photo or prompt

Project Genie is a Google research prototype that generates short, remixable 60-second interactive AI video worlds with limitations, content restrictions, and a high subscription cost.
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Google's Project Genie lets you generate your own interactive worlds

This past summer, Google DeepMind debuted Genie 3. It's what's known as a world world, an AI system capable of generating images and reacting as the user moves through the environment the software is simulating. At the time, DeepMind positioned Genie 3 as a tool for training AI agents. Now, it's making the model available to people outside of Google to try with Project Genie.
Artificial intelligence
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Facebook is offering Meta AI-powered animations for profile photos

Meta has been going all in on AI, whether people want it or not, and now it's bringing more features in that vein to Facebook. The network's latest move is to let people use Meta AI to animate their profile photos. Because what better way to express your individuality than to use a pre-canned AI-generated animation on your own face?
Artificial intelligence
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