adding this to my "how the world works": financial journalism is a thing because most people "couldn’t read a balance sheet if their life depended on it". From @patio11's insightful newsletter.
Reflecting on how much it cost me for not taking the time to understand the numbers.
There is nothing in our universe that we respond to the way we respond to another human face. But to date, the potential of digital humans remains largely unrealized. Digital human avatars will remain limited unless these models can cross the uncanny valley at scale AND be interactive and interoperable.
AvatarOS is creating the next evolution of avatars - Real Digital Humans
Comment below if your interesting in learning more about our process for capturing true to life performances in volumetric 4D and transforming them into interactive avatars that embody the motion mannerisms and nuance that make an individual unique.
If there’s interest, I will follow up with a longer post on our process and how our method is not limited to one-to-one replications of real life humans, but can transfer motion and deformation to any avatar and even generate completely new ones!
#digitalhuman #digitalhumans #avatar #metaverse #spatialcomputing #ar #vr
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Destruction of Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant is an environmental catastrophe.
Today is the peak of water flooding from Kakhovska reservoir. In 2 to 4 days it will cease to exist.
These are some of the aftereffects of this terrorist act on environment. We will know more when the water subsides.
🔹️Nyzhnodniprovskyy natural park was destroyed.
🔹️80,000 hectares of land from Nova Kakhovka to Dniprovsko-Buhskyi Lyman were destroyed.
🔹️ The entire biocenosis (thickets, floodplain, aquatic vegetation) downstream of the Dnieper was flooded.
🔹️ In the natural areas of Kherson and Mykolaiv regions (Park "Beloberezhye Svyatoslav", 352 km² of land), the population of hundreds of species of animals and plants will be lost.
🔹️ 70 species of animals and 30 types of plants from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species are in danger.
🔹️ Sea pollution: dozens of tons of toxic sludge (including 450 tons of machine oil that got into Dnipro river). Thousands of tons of fish will die. The consequences will be felt by the western Black Sea coast (Ukrainian Odesa, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey).
🔹️If the reservoir is completely drained, toxic deposits will be exposed (heavy metals, oil products, pesticides, radionuclides). Wind will carry this toxic dust into the air, mainly in the direction of Crimea.
🔹️About 1,5 million hectares of land will not be suitable for crops/farming in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions due to irrigation problems.
🔹️The North-Crimean canal drying out will lead to problems with drinking water in Crimea and will be critical for agriculture on the peninsula.
🔹️Water from Dnipro river might become toxic at some point due to explosives used and toxic elements and garbage getting into water. It's dangerous to approach the river because of sporadic mine detonation.
Russia launched ecocide in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion - destroying forests and wild animals, digging trenches in the forest near Chornobyl, mass deaths of dolphins, burned out Kinburn Spit, relocation and murder of animals from zoos and natural parks, polluting vast territories with ammunition and mines, and now the destroyed Kakhovka reservoir.
Russia is an environmental terrorist.
📷: libkos
Check out XGen to Unreal, a useful script for exporting custom hair grooms from XGen to Unreal Engine, developed by @marizatorska in collaboration with Roman Zhuk.
Learn more and purchase the script: https://t.co/kWPnpLfyUu
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She Hulk reportedly spent $73 Million on three episodes. If you know anything about studio pipelines and the exponential complexity involved with creating high end avatars your likely not surprised (well maybe a little). Yet I can do this with my Iphone.
@ashthorp1 I also see while artists are opposing it, they can use this tools with more professional approach and excel in it. Or wasting time dragging this unstoppable train backwards.
@ashthorp1 It's always painful to change. Leave the years of torturous learning behind to be able to visualize ur ideas in minutes, not hours and days. If you love art because of the process, there are always be funs and ways yo monetize ur skill.
For metaverse(s) to exist we are reinventing content creation. Excited to see the progress with nvidia's text-to-3d technique https://t.co/UtOTLEHulX
#metaverse#AI
8 years ago I started learning CG, to visualize my ideas and today with Generative AI I'm taking my time to comprehend this power with no limits... this changes everything https://t.co/lPC4Rz7Nl3
Many in Ukraine are angered by Russian anti-mobilisation protests. They feel that Russians stayed silent while Putin’s army committed genocide against Ukrainians but now suddenly find the courage to protest