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Experiment with ARKit

Artists Can Büyükberber and Marpi explore iOS ARKit for potential AR Art projects:

Weekend AR Experiment in collaboration with Marpi, an invisible exhibition blurring the lines between what’s real and what is not. Recorded in real-time at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA. Running realtime from a custom app, using iPad or iPhone with the new IOS ARKit and Unity.

PewDiePie, YouTube’s biggest star, is leaning into his new, far-right following

When Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg, YouTube’s most lucrative, popular superstar, uploaded a video featuring a banner with the words “Death to all Jews,” along with a man dressed as Jesus saying, “Hitler did absolutely nothing wrong,” he insisted it was jokes made in bad taste. 

After losing his partnership with Disney, Kjellberg apologized, saying he was just poking fun at the “modern world.”

But attempts to distance himself from his message didn’t deter the so-called “alt-right” from accepting him as one of their own, nor did Kjellberg’s insistence that he wanted nothing to do with them.

Kjellberg may not support them, but in the few short months since his anti-Semitism scandal, far-right celebrities have become Kjellberg’s favorite new bedfellows. Read more (7/26/17)

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence - 2001 Steven Spielberg

Thanks Graylock

Augmented reality sandbox - move the land around and it shows off the topography and sea/water level.

Creating Face-Based AR Experiences

Apple have just published an example for developers on how to use their front facing camera on the iPhone X for AR apps:

This sample app presents a simple interface allowing you to choose between four augmented reality (AR) visualizations on devices with a TrueDepth front-facing camera (see iOS Device Compatibility Reference).

The camera view alone, without any AR content.

The face mesh provided by ARKit, with automatic estimation of the real-world directional lighting environment.

Virtual 3D content that appears to attach to (and be obscured by parts of) the user’s real face.

A simple robot character whose facial expression is animated to match that of the user.

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An intro video can be found here

AYA-BAMBI - slic + style2paint

Another experiment from LuluXXX exploring Machine Learning visual outputs, combining black and white image colourization, slic superpixels image segmentation and style2paint manga colourization on footage of Aya-Bambi dancing:

mixing slic superpixels and style2paint. starts with version2 than version4 plus a little breakdown at the end and all 4 versions of the algorithm. music : Spettro from NadjaLind mix - https://soundcloud.com/nadjalind/nadja-lind-pres-new-lucidflow-and-sofa-sessions-meowsic-mix original footage : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2YhzBjiYUg 

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Bitcoin mining

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Run a Bitcoin Core 0.14.1 FullNode and support SegWit!

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Augmented Reality’s A-ha Moment

ARKit proof-of-concept demo from Trixi Studios applies an Augmented Reality portal with a ‘Take On Me’ music video drawing filter effect through an iOS device camera:

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10 Minutes of Imaginary Japanese Anime Face

Video from Yingtao Tian presents anime characters generated using GAN Neural Networks:

You can create your own using the webtoy MakeGirlsMoe here