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Mice VR Headsets Revolutionise Brain Activity Studies and Behavioural Research
Mice are now being equipped with specially designed virtual reality headsets, allowing researchers to study brain activity in immersive environments. Developed using affordable components, the "MouseGoggles" enable scientists to observe the mice's neural responses as they interact with virtual environments. The study opens new doors for understandi...
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What Are ‘Digital Signatures’ That Were Accessed by WazirX Hackers?
Digital signatures are virtual signing algorithms based on mathematics. Like human signatures, these digital signatures also prove the authenticity of any command linked to crypto transactions or smart contracts.
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Microsoft Unveils VASA-1, an Image-to-Video AI Model That Generates Eerily Realistic Results
Microsoft has introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate hyperrealistic videos of talking human faces. Dubbed VASA-1, the AI image-to-video model can generate videos from just one photo and a speech audio clip. The company says the created videos will have synchronised lip movements to match the audio as well as facial ex...
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Microsoft Shuts Industrial Metaverse Project Airsim to Focus on AI, Lays Off Team Members
Microsoft has reportedly shut down its Airsim and Bonsai projects, both of which were part of its industrial metaverse development division. The members that were part of these respective teams were asked to join a virtual meeting earlier this week, where the software giant disclosed that they were being laid off. The software giant is looking to k...
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IIT-Madras Launches Mobile App That Captures "Moving Models Of Memory"
The application will take users on a virtual tours of some of the famous places and monuments and capture associated memory generated by looking at them.
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Existing Telecom Infrastructure Insufficient to Sustain the Metaverse, Huawei Official Says
The current web ecosystem is still not ready to support the metaverse technology. For metaverse to work out as a fully functional virtual universe, it needs to be supported by high-speed Internet and as per Purohit, only 25 percent of the global population will have access to 5G by 2025.
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Beyond PUBG: Krafton Dreams of Ascending the World Stage
Krafton is best known as the publisher and developer behind PUBG Mobile and Battlegrounds Mobile India, and rightly so. But the South Korean video game company has grand ambitions — be it as a global game publisher (from The Callisto Protocol to an upcoming big-budget title), in the metaverse (with its virtual human Ana), and even in India (where...
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Four-Legged Robot Dog With Virtual Spinal Cord Learns to Walk in One Hour
In a bid to study how humans learn to walk from stumbling, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Germany built a four-legged robot dog. They equipped the robot dog with an artificial spinal cord and observed that it learned to walk in just an hour.
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Two Indian Student Groups Win NASA 2022 Human Exploration Rover Challenge
Announced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration during a virtual awards ceremony on April 29, the challenge involved as many as 91 teams, including 58 colleges and 33 high schools.
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Japan To Deploy VR-Controlled Giant Robot For Repairs On Railway Tracks
What's incredibly unique about this robot is that the human who is controlling it, is doing so through VR goggles. While holding on to a pair of handles, the operator is able to move the robot's arms and hands, thereby performing repairs remotely.
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Metaverse - Internet's New Frontier Explained In 10 Points
One man is responsible for you often hearing or reading about metaverse in 2021 novelist Neal Stephenson. Stephenson coined the word metaverse in his 1992 dystopian novel 'Snow Crash' to describe a 3-dimensional virtual world where humans interact as 'avatars'. For the uninitiated, 'avatars' are the graphical representations of real-life humans. F...
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Korean Social Media Influencer 'Rozy' Created Using AI Stands to Earn Over Rs. 6 Crores With 100 Sponsorships This Year
Studio X of South Korea has created 'Rozy', a 22-year-old AI social media influencer, who stands to make over KRW 854,007 (roughly Rs. 6.29 crores) by the end of this year for its creators.
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Education Minister Shares India's E-Learning Intitiatives With G20 Member States
Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank', on June 27, virtually participated in G20 Extraordinary Virtual Education Minister's Meeting and shared India's initiatives on Digital Education in the time of corona.
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"Political Vulturism": Tejashwi Yadav On Amit Shah's Virtual Rally
A day before Amit Shah's virtual rally, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday said campaigning amid the coronavirus crisis in the country is nothing but "political vulturism", and alleged that BJP was only interested in electoral victory even at the cost of human lives.
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"People's Will," PM Modi Tells Chief Ministers On Easing Lockdown Curbs
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a virtual meet with Chief Ministers today, said while his government's efforts were for everyone to stay where they are in the fight against the spread of coronavirus, certain decisions had to be changed because it was "human nature" to want to go home.
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Mice VR Headsets Revolutionise Brain Activity Studies and Behavioural Research
Mice are now being equipped with specially designed virtual reality headsets, allowing researchers to study brain activity in immersive environments. Developed using affordable components, the "MouseGoggles" enable scientists to observe the mice's neural responses as they interact with virtual environments. The study opens new doors for understandi...
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What Are ‘Digital Signatures’ That Were Accessed by WazirX Hackers?
Digital signatures are virtual signing algorithms based on mathematics. Like human signatures, these digital signatures also prove the authenticity of any command linked to crypto transactions or smart contracts.
-
Microsoft Unveils VASA-1, an Image-to-Video AI Model That Generates Eerily Realistic Results
Microsoft has introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate hyperrealistic videos of talking human faces. Dubbed VASA-1, the AI image-to-video model can generate videos from just one photo and a speech audio clip. The company says the created videos will have synchronised lip movements to match the audio as well as facial ex...
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Microsoft Shuts Industrial Metaverse Project Airsim to Focus on AI, Lays Off Team Members
Microsoft has reportedly shut down its Airsim and Bonsai projects, both of which were part of its industrial metaverse development division. The members that were part of these respective teams were asked to join a virtual meeting earlier this week, where the software giant disclosed that they were being laid off. The software giant is looking to k...
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IIT-Madras Launches Mobile App That Captures "Moving Models Of Memory"
The application will take users on a virtual tours of some of the famous places and monuments and capture associated memory generated by looking at them.
-
Existing Telecom Infrastructure Insufficient to Sustain the Metaverse, Huawei Official Says
The current web ecosystem is still not ready to support the metaverse technology. For metaverse to work out as a fully functional virtual universe, it needs to be supported by high-speed Internet and as per Purohit, only 25 percent of the global population will have access to 5G by 2025.
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Beyond PUBG: Krafton Dreams of Ascending the World Stage
Krafton is best known as the publisher and developer behind PUBG Mobile and Battlegrounds Mobile India, and rightly so. But the South Korean video game company has grand ambitions — be it as a global game publisher (from The Callisto Protocol to an upcoming big-budget title), in the metaverse (with its virtual human Ana), and even in India (where...
-
Four-Legged Robot Dog With Virtual Spinal Cord Learns to Walk in One Hour
In a bid to study how humans learn to walk from stumbling, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Germany built a four-legged robot dog. They equipped the robot dog with an artificial spinal cord and observed that it learned to walk in just an hour.
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Two Indian Student Groups Win NASA 2022 Human Exploration Rover Challenge
Announced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration during a virtual awards ceremony on April 29, the challenge involved as many as 91 teams, including 58 colleges and 33 high schools.
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Japan To Deploy VR-Controlled Giant Robot For Repairs On Railway Tracks
What's incredibly unique about this robot is that the human who is controlling it, is doing so through VR goggles. While holding on to a pair of handles, the operator is able to move the robot's arms and hands, thereby performing repairs remotely.
-
Metaverse - Internet's New Frontier Explained In 10 Points
One man is responsible for you often hearing or reading about metaverse in 2021 novelist Neal Stephenson. Stephenson coined the word metaverse in his 1992 dystopian novel 'Snow Crash' to describe a 3-dimensional virtual world where humans interact as 'avatars'. For the uninitiated, 'avatars' are the graphical representations of real-life humans. F...
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Korean Social Media Influencer 'Rozy' Created Using AI Stands to Earn Over Rs. 6 Crores With 100 Sponsorships This Year
Studio X of South Korea has created 'Rozy', a 22-year-old AI social media influencer, who stands to make over KRW 854,007 (roughly Rs. 6.29 crores) by the end of this year for its creators.
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Education Minister Shares India's E-Learning Intitiatives With G20 Member States
Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank', on June 27, virtually participated in G20 Extraordinary Virtual Education Minister's Meeting and shared India's initiatives on Digital Education in the time of corona.
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"Political Vulturism": Tejashwi Yadav On Amit Shah's Virtual Rally
A day before Amit Shah's virtual rally, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday said campaigning amid the coronavirus crisis in the country is nothing but "political vulturism", and alleged that BJP was only interested in electoral victory even at the cost of human lives.
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"People's Will," PM Modi Tells Chief Ministers On Easing Lockdown Curbs
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a virtual meet with Chief Ministers today, said while his government's efforts were for everyone to stay where they are in the fight against the spread of coronavirus, certain decisions had to be changed because it was "human nature" to want to go home.
