Intel Shuts Down Its AR/VR Volumetric Capture Stage

Intel has pulled the plug on one of its most ambitious AR/VR projects to date: The company quietly shut down Intel Studios, a 10,000-square-foot volumetric capture stage in Los Angeles, last month. The facility had been heralded as the world’s largest capture stage of its kind, and was used to record music videos for Reggie Watts and K-pop band NCT 127,…

Nvidia’s AI Recreates ‘Pac-Man’ For 40th Anniversary

Nvidia recently taught its AI system to recreate the game Pac-Man just by watching it being played. Hypebeast reports: No coding or pre-rendered images were used for the software to base the recreation on. The AI model was simply fed visual data of the game being played alongside controller inputs. From there, the AI recreated what it saw frame by frame,…