Comics
Long time Batman writer says the woke will not go away.
Film and TV
Will there be another woman Doctor Who? Then the very next article says Jodie Whittaker nearly destroyed the show.
Walt Disney Animation studios has a new union for Production designers. All 80 of them.
Caped crusader moves to Amazon after HBO Max canceled everything.
Disney is considering letting other streaming services get things like Family Guy for a price. Bob Iger wants a more curated service for Disney+.
Theme Parks
Disney Imagineering going through restructuring.
Chuck E Cheese still uses floppy disks to control animatronics. I laugh because so much of entertainment is like this.
There's an Alligator Loki Plushie at Universal parks. A comic area has a reference to a TV show that isn't licensed to the parks.
Former Greatness
GM offers to buy out the stocks of any employee leaving the company.
Remote work is winning. The office is disappearing.
Cars
AI designed insane cars that would be fun to cruise in. Not actually drive, just cruise.
Concept cars
Propaganda
House GOP lead inquiry into inquiry on January 6th committee.
Elon Musk plans company town in Texas
Twitter is dying… it has to be!
Governor DeSantis' wants a Florida only military.
China brokers deal and eases tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Tech
Nvidia redo their gpu die
Fake solar panels being sold in Florida.
This could also be in VR and AI, but covers how architecture firms are trying to play catch up with all the new tech. They have difficulties even getting VR right, and often only see things like Unreal as ways to display their artistic masterpiece.
Videogames
Epic now allows indie submitted games.
Games inspired by Silent Hill.
Modders have made Wii Online channels work again. This includes the ability to order a pizza.
Super Metroid has been ported to PC.
VR
Samsung XR may be like Quest Pro
AI
AI will never be human and it's art is terrible, says art critic no one has heard of.
Things you don't need to do thanks to AI.
https://archive.ph/EZngp#selection-1593.102-1593.107
Epic boss doesn't like AI string art.
Google is scrambling to catch up with AI, but not knowing how to do it.
ChatGPT clones to arrive soon. Analysts demand everything slow down because they can't control it.
AI: NeRF to Unreal Engine
NeRF stands for Neural Radience Field, and is the latest in AI and Photogrammetry. It can make videos and effects from just a few photos of an area.
Companies are trying to get Neural Radience Fields to port to the Unreal Engine. This company is showing off what they can do, but have not released anything to be used.
There is also Volinga, which is what everyone recommends, but isn’t letting me into the stupid Beta.
https://docs.nerf.studio/en/latest/extensions/unreal_engine.html
I want to do this for a project that involves concept art made from Blender, Unreal, and AI imaging programs to create a 3D project I can export. It looks like I can sort of do it because InstaNerf allows for Export in OBJ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55XKtYOIB7Y
I will need to use Google Collab to do it, because my computer just isn’t ready for it all.
Once its done though, I have a scene that I can say the exact real-world size and shape of any object I make. A cool project if a bit daunting.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7039790869352206336/
That's your prerogative.
I swear spell check wanted to spell that as perogies.