Oct 20
The renowned book fair is grappling with legislation across the country by conservatives that have banned students from reading about topics surrounding race and gender.
Oct 20
After years of capturing the massive world of Jupiter, the Juno spacecraft has recently turned its attention to its Jovian moons. During a close flyby of Jupiter’s spookiest moon, Juno imaged the charred surface of a volcanic world caught in a haunting gravitational tug.
Oct 20
Threads was a unicorn in the vacuum left behind by a Musk-infested Twitter turned X. But as the excitement for the sterile and lifeless platform inevitably waned for users, Meta’s newest trick to give the illusion of Threads’ growth is to just jam its posts into Facebook feeds.
Oct 20
Writer-director Matthew Vaughn is well known for turning giving franchises a good kick in the ass. He did that with a movie literally called Kick-Ass, but also by rebooting the X-Men franchise with First Class, and updating the spy franchise with Kingsman. In between, Vaughn has been attached to, or at least…
Oct 20
Robotics combined with AI is going to tremendously change how manufacturing, quality control, and a lot of other tasks are done. A foundational piece of the puzzle is environment sensing, often done via multiple cameras, typically one per type of light: RGB, Infrared, Thermal etc…
Multiple cameras are typically set as an array with different camera types next to each other, similar to what you see in certain phones but bigger. This configuration leads to images from each camera being captured with slightly different views and introduces parallax. As a result, combining the information from all the cameras into one view via software can be difficult.
At CEATEC, JVCKenwood takes an entirely different approach with its Advanced Sensor Fusion Camera System (PDF PR). It has developed a way to use a single lens connected to multiple sensors. This works by optically funneling different light spectra entering one lens to different sensors.
As a result, the capture is parallax-free, and very little or no processing is required to re-align data captured from different sensors. The accuracy of the combined depth+color data is increased, and that’s ideal for autonomous robotics use cases as machines might have to perform extremely precise actions where every percentage of gained accuracy can turn into additional productivity for the robot’s lifetime.
We expect to see this camera being used for industrial applications where the needs and benefits are already clearly understood. It will be interesting to see if this kind of technology would make its way into the consumer market someday.
JVCKENWOOD Advanced Sensor Fusion Camera System
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Oct 20
At CEATEC 2023, I tested JVCKENWOOD’s EXOFIELD “Boléro” demo. I’ll explain EXOFIELD in more detail below, but at a high level, it’s an accurate spatial sound rendering technology.
The Bolero demo consists of visualizing a virtual concert and enjoying the spatial audio quality. The virtual concert consisted of volumetric scans of 16 members of the New Japan Philharmonic. All members were placed to surround the listener in the demo. The scans were very detailed, and you could see people’s expressions.
As one or several musicians play Bolero, you can precisely pinpoint where they are. Upon getting closer to them, the sound was properly rendered, and it felt very accurate. I wish we could walk around with the headphones, but the tradeshow floor space was a bit tight. However, if you move your head towards a sound source, you can already feel a difference.
To view the virtual scene, JVCKENWOOD had Canon MREAL X1 Display with a handles accessory, allowing a quicker setup than a normal over-the-head apparatus. They could have shown a movie, but using 3D graphics made things much more interactive and unique to everyone who tried.
EXOFIELD is a technology focused on out-of-head localization sound field processing, aiming for precise spatial sound rendering. This type of sound field processing is commonly utilized in Virtual Reality and gaming applications, where the positional accuracy of sound is crucial, going beyond a general sense of “spatial perception.”
In contrast, basic spatial perception typically employs in-head localization and is prevalent in most devices due to its lower requirements for computational power and hardware. The two technologies should not be confused.
Typically, people would use EXOFIELD for home entertainment purposes, which I think is the primary and most obvious use case. That’s particularly true if you live in an apartment where it is challenging to enjoy powerful surround sound speakers without your neighbors complaining.
Developed by JVC, EXOFIELD incorporates advanced sound technologies often found in high-end home theater systems and premium consumer electronics. For optimal audio performance, EXOFIELD requires a straightforward, one-time setup that customizes settings for individual users.
JVC EXOFIELD is a well-known technology for audio enthusiasts, and this demo is a great way to let attendees experience the sound it produces. That’s really the only way to fully experience the best audio technologies because it’s tough to describe and quantify, especially since this is customized to each user via the initial setup.
JVCKENWOOD EXOFIELD Bolero Spatial Sound Demo
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Oct 20
Kim Kardashian Says She Was ‘Scared’ To Tell Kanye West She Hired A Male Nanny
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Oct 20
Writer-director Matthew Vaughn is well known for turning giving franchises a good kick in the ass. He did that with a movie literally called Kick-Ass, but also by rebooting the X-Men franchise with First Class, and updating the spy franchise with Kingsman. In between, Vaughn has been attached to, or at least…
Oct 20
For years, Marc Andreessen has had so much money he’s barely known what to do with himself. After striking it rich with the founding of Netscape during the ‘90s, he built himself into a mega-investor in a pantheon of Silicon Valley success stories, becoming a kingmaker in the upper echelons of tech. Now, after years…
Oct 20
In June 2022, a radio telescope in Western Australia detected a fleeting radio signal from a galaxy over 10 billion light-years from Earth. Now, a team of astronomers that studied the blast have confirmed it’s the most distant of its kind yet seen.
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