I was recently invited (mid December 2021) to talk to Marc Petit (Epic Games) and Patrick Cozzi (Cesium) on their podcast about the Open Metaverse. This was the 9th episode and following a bunch of really nice talks before me this was an honor and I had fun doing it. You find it here:
https://cesium.com/open-metaverse-podcast/3d-commerce-in-the-metaverse/
In one of its first deliverables, the Working Group has published a sneak peek at the upcoming guidelines by releasing a high-level summary of the topics that will be covered—including file formats, coordinate systems, geometry, materials, textures, lighting and publishing targets. This summary has been published in Markdown on GitHub under the CC BY 4.0 license. Khronos is inviting feedback, suggestions and contributions from the industry to help guide and improve the full guidelines..
IKEA (INGKA Group) acquired Geomagical Labs, a leading US-based development company of 3D and visual AI solutions for interactive home furnishing inspiration, based in Silicon Valley, California.
IKEA Communications AB is now a member of the Khronos Board of Directors.
Khronos does royalty-free open standards for 3D graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Parallel Computing, Neural Networks, and Vision Processing.
IKEA joins the Promoter members: AMD, Apple, Arm, Epic Games, Google, Huawei, Imagination Technologies, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony, Valve and Verisilicon.
We now have 3 new position open to work with cutting edge Deep Learning (AI) in the field of Visual data science at IKEA Digital lab. Building future solutions needed to support Spatial Computing experiences that is the Lab’s focus.
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