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Toolbox Time: Movement tracking, cloud editing, VR and more 🧰

🌐 VRing in NeRFs, Plai Labs New Text to Video

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Joey Daoud
November 09, 2023

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Today in VP Land:

🕺 Movement tracking updates
😶‍🌫️ New cloud editing tools
🥽 Moving through NeRFs in VR

Let’s explore

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STUDIO A

Movers and Trackers

A roundup of a few updates and new tools for motion tracking.

Source: Deci

Deci released YOLO-NAS Pose, four new open-source models for object detection and tracking.

“This new, state-of-the-art foundation model advances the field with its unparalleled capabilities and is ideal for use cases that require high precision and real time AI-powered insights…with YOLO-NAS Pose you can get up to 50.8% faster performance with comparable accuracy,” says Deci CEO Yonatan Geifman.

Source: OptiTrack

3D tracking system builder OptiTrack just announced three new motion capture cameras: the Prime 120, Prime 120W, and Slim 120. They have higher resolution and greater field of view than OptiTrack’s previous cameras. The new features enable larger tracking areas, like sports fields or large VP volumes.

Move AI just launched Move One, a new iPhone app that can do motion capture with a single iPhone. It can shoot in both portrait or landscape mode and also has hand and finger tracking.

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SECOND UNIT

Post Tools

Source: Alteon

Alteon released a handy update making workflows between iPad and desktop editing on Final Cut much more seamless.

When media files are uploaded to Alteon, they are natively transcoded into H.265 MP4 proxy files. Editors on iPad can download those proxies for offline editing using Final Cut Pro for iPad, giving creators the ability to edit more footage from different devices. When the project is ready for online conform, the editor can hand off the project to Final Cut Pro on their desktop, which has access to the original raw files. From there, all media is relinked and proxy content is discarded for further collaboration in Alteon, or can be exported for distribution.

In other FCP news, the desktop version now has a scrolling timeline and the iPad app added new voiceover capabilities.

Source: Ozone

Ozone, a new cloud-based, AI video editor, raised $7.1 million in seed funding and is launching an open beta soon.

Source: Plai Labs

Plai Labs launched its own AI text-to-video tool for generating 3D animated videos called PlaiDay.

VIDEO VILLAGE

VR-NeRF brings high-fidelity walkable spaces to real-time virtual reality. Our “Eyeful Tower” multi-camera rig captures spaces with high image resolution and dynamic range that approach the limits of the human visual system.

Look at the reflections shifting depending on the headset’s viewing angle. Read more about VR-NeRF here.

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🌐 Around the Web

🎞 Apple Vision Pro 3D movies reportedly will be made available in the App Store

🔀 AJA ColorBox collaborates with Astora Digital to build HDR and virtual production workflows in China

🎬 HP Z8 Fury G5 takes ZeroSpace's virtual production studio to another level

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🤖 Samsung debuts Gauss, a generative AI model designed for smartphones that produce text, codes, and images

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November 11 and 12
Motion Capture & ICVFX Virtual Production Masterclass - Final Pixel
The Yard @ NYU Tandon, New York
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November 15
University of South Florida Open House Session with Zero Density
Tampa, Florida
This one-day event will give you an up-close look at how USF stands out in educational content creation and provides hands-on experience with virtual production for education and media communication purposes.

November 16
Introduction to Virtual Production - disguise Training
Film Academy Baden-Württemberg GmbH, Germany
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November 29
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