First Newsletter from NeRFs
With the first three months of the year complete, it’s time for a check-in on all the exciting NeRF-news (no, that’s not a new paper…at least not yet)
NeRF Stories
It's been a meteoric launch to 2023 for NeRFs. We've seen incredible, new papers published, content be produced, and excitement for the future is building.
Luma AI raised $20M for their Series A from Amplify Partners. This sets an amazing precedent for the coming NeRF companies and “NeRFpreneurs”
Speaking of those, “NeRFpreneur” James Perlman opened the public alpha for his NeRF platform in Blender, TurboNeRF. He’s also streaming his progress if you’d like to follow along.
NeRFs can now be edited! Through NeRFshop, we get an early look at the future of NeRF editing.
Product Managers and CEOs should be paying very close attention to the progress that NeRF is creating. There are several use cases to enhance customer experience coming as Linkedin user: Alberto Yanez Montesdeoca mocks up a potential future of live ticketing through NeRFs.
In what’s been by far the best performing post of this year, Lighfield Botanist, Katrin Schmidt explores the history of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), Holograms, and Light Fields.
Creative use cases for NeRFs
NVIDIA’s GTC featured 6 talks on NeRFs, significantly higher than any event prior and as more and more. Here’s the link to the talks in case you missed them!
Short Films: “Given Again” by Jake Oleson
Music Videos: “Let You Know” by Omar Jones
My Favorite NeRFs of the week
If you think your industry could benefit from the adoption of NeRFs, drop me a line and I’d be happy to connect! Please share this with anyone that you think might find it interesting and let’s push the technology forwards!
General AI News
Midjourney launches a print magazine.
This gives me Away Coffee Table book vibes and I am totally here for it. I can see myself picking up a copy and perusing through the creations; it’s a great way to incentivize and reward the community, while pushing evangelism forwards.