The Sphere in Los Vegas has captured the world’s attention. Inspired by it, DrZzs & GrZzs made a replica in their backyard. Their 8-foot diameter mini-sphere has 20,028 RGB LED pixels and is driven by a Kulp 32 controller and xLights software.
world_of_engineering_75 shares this experience of 5D theatre. It has real fire effects that make you feel like the theater’s on fire. There’s very little information about where this highly dangerous attraction is located – but it is supposedly somewhere in China.
While somewhat cool – it’s realistic enough to be terrifying as fire often flashes over like this right before almost certain death for anyone in the room.
Fascinating Horror is a YouTube channel that tells the true stories behind real life disasters. It’s not a channel for the faint of heart as he covers some of history’s greatest disasters that often resulted in tremendous, and often terrifying, loss of life. If you ever wanted to know why OSHA exists, concert and sporting arena designs and safety crews are present, fire regulations, occupancy limits, building codes, and other government controls are in place at any place where people gather – this channel will show you why they say “Safety regulations are written in blood”
Alex Le Guillou made a clip for the documentary film “THE GIANTS, the story of Bob Brown and the forest. The project started in 2021 when he had the chance to illustrate the trees of Tasmania using Lidar data captured from the ground and by drone.
Welcome to the “Galactic Menagerie,” a whimsical and visually stunning fan-made AI generated fake trailer that reimagines the classic Star Wars universe through the eccentric lens of Wes Anderson. This mashup brings together iconic Star Wars characters with Anderson’s trademark symmetrical compositions, pastel color palettes, and quirky humor.
If you prefer, you can try out an earlier generated AI re-imagining of the cult movie Alien as a Wes Anderson film.
Or, you can take an AI generated film making course to make your own.
Hidreley Diao let curiosity get the best of him and he ask AI to render many animated household names in flesh and blood. He used Photoshop, FaceApp, Gradiente and Remini to create somewhat realistic images of well-known cartoon characters.
Here’s what AI came up with for The Simpsons. He also has given the AI treatment to some historical figures.
Humane technology has been showing off it’s little AI powered wearable devices – this time at the Paris Fashion show. They paired up with Coperni fashion and pinned the devices to their models.
What these devices do is – well – nobody really knows. Officially they are a “screenless, standalone device and software platform built from the ground up for AI. The intelligent clothing-based wearable uses a range of sensors that enable natural and intuitive compute interactions and is designed to weave seamlessly into users’ day-to-day lives.” It appears to be powered by a Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1 processor and have ‘AI-powered optical recognition and a laser-projected display’.
There is some speculation they are a little like the Google Clip, but the AI Pin claims to be completely standalone and not tethered to other devices (like the iWatch, etc)
Right now there is almost no information about what they do or if they even turn on. There’s a lot of speculation that right now they are in ‘hype’ mode to collect investors. But with no actual working prototypes nor information about them – many are wondering if this is a case of the emperor has no clothes.
Still, it is an interesting thought experiment. If you did have one of these devices – what WOULD you want in a wearable little device like this? There doesn’t appear to be any screen; so how would it fit in the economy that has cell phones, digitally connected watches, and possibly screenless wearable devices?
Update 11/2023:
There’s a little more information here on Time’s ‘Best Inventions of 2023‘; though they do disclose that 2 TIME co-chairs were investors – so maybe a little bit of thumbs on the scale there.
The Future of filmmaking is here – and it’s done by a single person using AI tools. I’ve already posted about AI videos before, and included a number of trailer-like ones on the Curious Refuge channel or these humorous fake commercials from Turbodong2000.
Now Caleb Ward, who is the force behind Curious Refuge, is offering $749 AI Filmmaking classes.
The first 3 courses are completely sold out with waitlists to even apply for the November courses. For that price, you get:
Besides Caleb’s work, here’s some sample student work:
Here’s one that plays more like an ad – with voice matching:
Kid Klava wanted to sing a song he wrote, but realized his chops really weren’t up for the task. So why not get John Lennon sing it – with Paul on backing vocals? He claims it was surprisingly easy and it only took a few minutes to generate. If you’d like to have a go yourself, there are dozens of great YouTube tutorials.
Captain Disillusion shows you the various modern video techniques that create the popular videos of very busy and populated locations that appear utterly devoid of people.
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