Tokyo-based startup Telexistence this week announced it will deploy NVIDIA AI-powered robots to restock shelves at hundreds of FamilyMart convenience stores in Japan. There are 56,000 convenience stores in Japan — the third-highest density worldwide. Around 16,000 of them are run by FamilyMart. Telexistence aims to save time for these stores by offloading repetitive tasks Read article >

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Asked about the future of design, Donald Greenberg holds up a model of a human aorta. “After my son became an intravascular heart surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, he hired one of my students to use CAT scans and create digital 3D models of an aortic aneurysm,” said the computer graphics pioneer in a video Read article >

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NVIDIA today announced NeuralVDB, which brings the power of AI to OpenVDB, the industry-standard library for simulating and rendering sparse volumetric data, such as water, fire, smoke and clouds. Building on the past decade’s development of OpenVDB, the introduction at SIGGRAPH of NeuralVDB is a game-changer for professionals working in areas like scientific computing and Read article >

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The creation of 3D objects for building scenes for games, virtual worlds including the metaverse, product design or visual effects is traditionally a meticulous process, where skilled artists balance detail and photorealism against deadlines and budget pressures. It takes a long time to make something that looks and acts as it would in the physical Read article >

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For cutting-edge visual effects and virtual production, creative teams and studios benefit from digital sets and environments that can be updated in real time. A crucial element in any virtual production environment is a sky dome, often used to provide realistic lighting for virtual environments and in-camera visual effects. Legendary studio Industrial Light & Magic Read article >

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