#E1I43: Dialing Up the Digital
Connect to AI's pioneering signals, Bandwidth Buffs! On this World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, we're tapping into the latest transmissions of technological progress. First up, OpenAI partners with Reddit to enhance ChatGPT with community content, helping AI better comprehend the information society's discourse. But our feed doesn't disconnect there! We're also streaming CAT3D — a system that transforms 2D photos into immersive 3D virtual worlds in mere minutes. Get ready to experience AI's frontier of interconnected information and interactive experiences!
?? CAT3D: Creating Captivating 3D Content ??
Imagine you've just snapped a breathtaking photo of a majestic cathedral, a buzzing city street, or a cozy interior. As you marvel at the scene, a fantastical thought crosses your mind — what if you could plunge into the picture and explore every nook and cranny, from any angle you please?
That captivating concept is now within reach with CAT3D, a cutting-edge AI system developed by Google DeepMind and Google Research . This technological marvel can stitch ordinary images, even single snapshots, into intricate 3D worlds you can wander through and admire in real time. Let's peek under the hood and grasp how CAT3D conjures up these entrancing virtual realities.
??? Consistency Conundrum: The key to CAT3D's 3D wizardry is generating lots of consistent views of the scene from different angles. This is tricky - small inconsistencies between views can throw off 3D reconstruction. CAT3D solves this with a special "Multi-View Latent Diffusion Model" trained on sets of images of the same scene from multiple viewpoints. Given one or more input images and target viewpoints, it can spit out new views that match up.
Those consistently generated views then get fed into a 3D reconstruction process to build a fully explorable 3D model. The end result lets you fly around the scene rendered in real-time from any angle. CAT3D can create convincing 3D scenes from as little as a single photo, or even from text using image generation as an intermediate step! The whole process takes just a minute or two.
??? Vivid Vistas at Your Fingertips: By making 3D content creation fast, easy, and accessible, CAT3D throws open the doors to thrilling new applications. Vacation snaps could become explorable memories, concept sketches could transform into 3D design prototypes, storybook illustrations could leap off the page in AR/VR, and video game worlds could emerge from a handful of concept art. As CAT3D evolves, our photos may routinely teleport us into dazzling virtual dimensions to play in and explore.
?? Researchers: Ruiqi Gao , Aleksander Ho?ynski, Philipp H. , Arthur Brussee , Ricardo Martin Brualla , Pratul Srinivasan , Jonathan Barron, and Ben Poole
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? What's the craziest place you'd love to explore in 3D from the comfort of your own home? Let me know in the comments. ??
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Our celestial transmissions reached stratospheric velocities today, did they not Bandwidth Buffs? These uplinks and virtual realm expansions shine like beacons illuminating the interconnected future's horizons. Attune your receivers to these pioneering milestones over the weekend, allowing their cosmic reverberations to expand your consciousness's scope. When Monday's high-bandwidth downloads commence, be prepared for your mind's frontiers to be propelled even further by AI's breathtaking new vistas.