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DJI Osmo Nano review: High-quality video in a truly tiny action cam
DJI might be an innovative company, but it has been playing catch-up to rival Insta360 in the action cam world. A perfect example of that is its latest product, the Osmo Nano ($299). It follows a path Insta360 paved with its tiny Go Ultra and Go 3S, which let you separate the cam from the…
NVIDIA AI Open-Sources ViPE (Video Pose Engine): A Powerful and Versatile 3D Video Annotation Tool for Spatial AI
How do you create 3D datasets to train AI for Robotics without expensive traditional approaches? A team of researchers from NVIDIA released “ViPE: Video Pose Engine for 3D Geometric Perception” bringing a key improvement for Spatial AI. It addresses the central, agonizing bottleneck that has constrained the field of 3D computer vision for years. ViPE…
Video Games Weekly: It’s weird that esports is segregated by gender
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (Or, I dunno, Thursday), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who’s covered the industry for more than 13 years….
Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company’s first ever video game
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” Can a quote from Shakespeare’s Macbeth become a hacker’s motto? This question haunted the Cannes Film Festival in May, and now, the Venice International Film Festival, two major launchpads for the first-ever video game produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Lili is a neo-noir rendition of Macbeth set…
Can a video game make the loneliness epidemic feel good?
For Tiny Bull Studios, one thing always remained the same throughout the years of development and various prototypes for The Lonesome Guild: It was always a game about loneliness. “All the thematics of the game, all the game play has been built around this contrast between loneliness and teamwork,” producer Luca Cafasso told Polygon over…
The 10 Best Video Game Prequels – IGN
In the world of movies, prequels have a somewhat mixed reputation. There’s the ones that enrich their existing worlds and stories, like X-Men: First Class. There’s the ones that ruin the mystery, like the heinous Hannibal Rising. And then there’s the ones no one can actually agree on, like the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Over…
Kioxia Unveils 245.76TB SSD That Can Store 3 Years of 4K Video on a Single Drive! A New Standard for AI & Cloud Giants
Overview The world of data storage has just been changed and revolutionized. Kioxia, a global leader in memory solutions, has officially unveiled the Kioxia 245.76TB SSD. It represents a significant step forward, expanding the capabilities of enterprise-grade storage. This massive drive is part of the revolutionary and groundbreaking Kioxia LC9 Series SSD. It is not…
Video Games Weekly: Censorship, shrinkage and a Subnautica scandal
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who’s covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the…
Video Games Weekly: Who put all these videos in my games?
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who’s covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the…
NVIDIA AI Released DiffusionRenderer: An AI Model for Editable, Photorealistic 3D Scenes from a Single Video
AI-powered video generation is improving at a breathtaking pace. In a short time, we’ve gone from blurry, incoherent clips to generated videos with stunning realism. Yet, for all this progress, a critical capability has been missing: control and Edits While generating a beautiful video is one thing, the ability to professionally and realistically edit it—to…