Spatial Sports, GTA VI, Google Gemini, ChatGPT for Interior Design and more, This week inside my head.
It's been an another full week on the internet, AI news, Tabletop sports viewing, GTA leaked trailer, play Minecraft outside in augmented reality, loads to cover.
👋 Hello! I’m Linus, and welcome to this 🔓 open edition 🔓 of my weekly newsletter. Each week, I delve into all things AI, answering your questions, writing op-eds, and creating AI tutorials.
Ushering a new era for the sports industry
Introducing a new real-time data layer from Rizzle, named exar.live, which enables streaming vast amounts of match data in real time. This data can then be used to render the game on a tabletop in an augmented reality (spatial computing) environment.
These types of experiences would have required millions of dollars and take several weeks to complete.
I’m not a huge sports person, but I can really see this being the future for so many arena type sports, both classic and e-sports. Imagine spectating any game like this 😱
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GTA VI Trailer was leaked, then released.
We will have to wait until 2025 to get our hands on GTA VI. However the first official trailer was leaked. And then Rockstar released it on YouTube.
I must say that everything about the trailer was impressive. Yet, 2025 is a long way out. Given how rapidly AI-driven upscalers and enhancers are improving, I wouldn't be surprised if the graphics end up being even more impressive.
All we need is Nvidia DLSS with some creativity applied. So lets see where we are 18 months from now.
Here are a few enhanced screen grabs from the trailer.
AI tools I’m all over this week.
Taplio — Use AI to build your personal brand on LinkedIn in just 10 minutes a day. ⭐️ Highly recommended, as it helped me grow to over 17k followers in just a few months.
tldraw — Sketch anything and AI will turn it into a working website in seconds
Magnific.ai — Enhance any image for greater quality and details.
Leonardo LiveCanvas — Real-time AI design tool
Pika.art — Text to Video with greater controls, in-painting and much more.
Google released their new foundational Multi modal LLM – Gemini.
Googles release video of Gemini was… Impressive, but turns out relatively tempered with or lets just say, creatively edited. Despite that, I won't delve deeper into it here as it has already been extensively covered. If you are keen, Matt Wolfe has a good summary on it here.
If we focus on the important things, its a new foundational model from Google more specifically teams at DeepMind and all over the company.
The Gemini Ultra performance is on par or better than GPT4-turbo. But the jury is still out on real-world applications. OpenAI just have to much stuff out in the wild, and Google is not there yet.
Use ChatGPT to help you with Interior Design.
There are many services that allow you to utilise GenAI to create interior images based on your own photos. Pieter Levels have one, interiorai.com
However I wanted to take things one step further, and actually get an interior design consultant, so I turned my gaze to ChatGPT.
I gave it a short half page brief, and uploaded a floor plan of our apartment and started chatting. It's a challenging task, as we are essentially four people living in a 35 sqm (350 sqf) space.
The output was quite impressive, what we had pondered on over countless of hours of inspiration and planning, and consulting with others was basically exactly the recommendations I got from ChatGPT after 15min of conversation. So now we could start from there and get to even better solutions. Read the full thing here.
Partnerships and X (formerly Twitter)
I’ve continued to enjoy good reach on X. This have resulted on some great outcomes for some of the partnerships I’ve done. Managed to generate more than 5000 signups for one partner 🤯 on one X thread alone. Total in the past 28 days I’ve generated more than 157k link clicks on X alone.
There are a few slots left for 2023, but really looking forward to build some long term relationships with a select few brands/products during 2024.
If you are interested feel free to reach out, looking forward to talk.
I’ve updated my partnership portal – passionfroot.me/linus
YouTube and Studio
I'm thrilled to announce that we now have 1.5k followers on YouTube. The rough edit of Studio Build Season 1, Episode 1, is complete and set for release this week. So make sure you are subscribed and click the little notification bell too 🙏🏼 🫢.
Here are some images from this weeks progress. Read full thread here
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