💣🔥#Unity acquires Ziva Dynamics 💣🔥

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Real-time digital humans
✅A mix of #ML & biomechanics
✅Complex anatomical simulation
✅30 terabytes of 4D data
✅72,000 trained shapes

More: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/visionarynet_unity-metaverse-ml-activity-6891413170834030592-Rr9p

🥸 Clothed avatars for #metaverse 🥸

👉Telepresence, AR/VR, anthropometry, and virtual try-on.

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Differential loss of explicit mesh
✅Details via neural rendering
✅Explicit mesh updating
✅Consistency loss for quality++
✅Hi-Fi surfaces by S.S. optimization

More: https://bit.ly/3ohAN6d

♊ DITTO: Digital Twins from Interaction ♊

👉Digitizing objects for #metaverse through interactive perception

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅DIgital Twin of arTiculated Objects
✅Geometry & kinematic articulation
✅Articulation & 3D via perception
✅Source code under MIT License

More:https://bit.ly/3LMazCV

🥽 #metaverse in 1991 🥽

👉Q: is #VR the technology that developed least in the last 30 years? 🤔

Discussion: https://bit.ly/3txWF07

🙌 #Oculus' new Hand Tracking 🙌

👉Hands are able to move as naturally and intuitively in the #metaverse as do in real life

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Hands2.0 powered by CV & ML
✅Tracking hand-over-hand interactions
✅Crossing hands, clapping, high-fives
✅Accurate thumbs-up gesture

More: https://bit.ly/3JXPvY2

🐶 Bringing pets in #metaverse 🐶

👉ARTEMIS: pipeline for generating articulated neural pets for virtual worlds

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅ARTiculated, appEarance, Mo-synthesIS
✅Motion control, animation & rendering
✅Neural-generated (NGI) animal engine
✅SOTA animal mocap + neural control

More: https://bit.ly/3LZSLDU

🪔 AvatarCLIP: Text-Driven Avatar 🪔

👉Zero-shot text-driven for #3D avatar in #metaverse

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅First text-driven synthesis
✅Shape, texture, and motion
✅Animation-ready, HQ texture/geometry
✅Zero-shot text-guided ref-based motion
✅Code and model under MIT license

More: https://bit.ly/3LjTWgB

🔥 KeypointNeRF: code is out! 🔥

👉KeypointNeRF by #Meta: "NeRF"-avatars

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Generalizable NeRF for virtual avatar
✅Sparse 3D keypoints for SOTA avatar
✅Novel unseen subjects from 2/3 views
✅"iPhone" captures for #metaverse

More: https://bit.ly/3pyl17e

🔥 Dressing Avatars by #META 🔥

👉Novel deep photorealistic appearance method for physically-simulated clothing in #metaverse

😎Review https://bit.ly/3yRBW9Y
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2206.15470.pdf

💥TAVA for photo-realistic Avatars💥

👉#META unveils a novel approach for Template-free Animatable Volumetric Avatars. #Metaverse ready.

😎Review https://bit.ly/3DPDEvm
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2206.08929.pdf
😎Project www.liruilong.cn/projects/tava/
😎Code github.com/facebookresearch/tava