This Week’s AI & Tech Breakthroughs: Virtual Humans, 6G, and More

This week’s tech roundup highlights ByteDance’s OmniHuman‑1.5 virtual humans with logical reasoning, Apple’s chief robotics researcher joining Meta, Meituan’s LongCat‑Flash model that schedules compute like delivery, the launch of 6G standardization work, Anthropic’s ban on Chinese‑controlled users, OpenAI’s AI‑leadership whitepaper, and other notable AI and hardware advances.

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This Week’s AI & Tech Breakthroughs: Virtual Humans, 6G, and More

DataFunSummit

Jun 25, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

Soul’s AIGC Practices and Explorations: From Industry Trends to Product Integration

This article reviews recent AIGC developments, outlines Soul’s multi‑year experiments with virtual humans, visual generation, large language models, audio synthesis, and product integration, and discusses the strategic balance between using external AI services and building proprietary capabilities.

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Soul’s AIGC Practices and Explorations: From Industry Trends to Product Integration

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Jun 7, 2023 · Game Development

Principles and Techniques for Creating Hyper‑Realistic Virtual Humans

This article explains the misconceptions, dual production pipelines, shape‑and‑color reconstruction, Lookdev and PBR workflows, skin rendering details, inverse PBR with LightStage, and 4D‑driven animation techniques required to achieve photorealistic virtual humans for real‑time applications.

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Principles and Techniques for Creating Hyper‑Realistic Virtual Humans

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May 5, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

Advances in Virtual Humans, Multimodal Technology, and General AI – Insights from OPPO

The article presents OPPO's latest research on virtual human audio‑lip and RGB driving, multimodal learning breakthroughs such as CETNETs and cross‑modal matching, and a reflective discussion on the challenges and future directions of general artificial intelligence, highlighting the interconnections among these three domains.

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Advances in Virtual Humans, Multimodal Technology, and General AI – Insights from OPPO

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May 24, 2022 · Frontend Development

How to Quickly Build 3D Virtual Avatars with Front‑End Techniques

This article explains the end‑to‑end front‑end workflow for creating real‑time 3D virtual avatars using the Oasis engine, covering glTF asset handling, model and texture replacement, bone animation mapping, inverse kinematics, physics integration, AI enhancements, and a low‑code development approach.

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How to Quickly Build 3D Virtual Avatars with Front‑End Techniques