The process of creating cosplay from scratch is incredibly intimidating to me, but Emily White found a new love for it post-lockdown: 'It can take anywhere from a mo…

Emily White, a cosplayer based in the UK, is a prime example of this creative flair, building each and every one of her ...

How a simple animal folds itself with origami-like precision

Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...
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Reusable Avatars Could Be Coming to Netflix Games, Following New Deal

Netflix plans to use Ready Player Me's technology to allow Netflix subscribers to carry their personalized personas and ...

Turn Any Photo into a 3D Model with SAM 3D : From One Snapshot to Shareable Mesh

Turn photos into 3D with Meta's SAM 3D, using SAM 2 masks and Gaussian splatting, so you can build assets quickly for ...

Netflix Buys Ready Player Me, an Avatar-Creation Developer, to Let Users Make Their Own Gaming Personas

Netflix will soon let customers make their own customized gaming avatars through the acquisition of Ready Player Me, an avatar-creation platform.
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Creating realistic 3D scenes from everyday online photos

A new approach is making it easier to visualize lifelike 3D environments from everyday photos already shared online, opening ...

3D printed skulls make mounting antlers less of a bloody mess

These 3D-printed skulls are made with PLA (Polylactic acid) filament. Shawn Sanchez and Dan Smith. Get the Popular Science ...

Apple builds single AI model that can see, create and edit images

Apple researchers presented UniGen 1.5, a system that can handle image understanding, generation, and editing within a single ...

Team shatters 3D nanofabrication limits with meta-optics

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) engineers and scientists, in collaboration with Stanford University, have ...

Apple releases open source SHARP AI model that turns single photo into 3D scene in under 1 second

Apple (AAPL) has released a new open-source AI model called SHARP which can turn a single 2-dimensional image into a ...
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New Segment Anything Models Make it Easier to Detect Objects and Create 3D Reconstructions

We’re introducing SAM 3 and SAM 3D, the newest additions to our Segment Anything Collection, which advance AI understanding of the visual world. SAM 3 enables detection and tracking of objects in ...