newslounge.co · Jan 09, 2024

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Welcome back to another exciting edition of our Tuesday Updates from your friends at newslounge! 😃

on Today’s menu:

• Xreal's Latest AR Glasses

• The Art of Prompting

• The fastest graphics card for AI

• The future of art and much more

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NEWS

Xreal's Latest AR Glasses: A Potential Challenger to Apple Vision Pro

Xreal, a leading Chinese augmented reality company previously known as Nreal, has launched its latest innovation: the Xreal Air 2 Ultra AR glasses. Targeted at developers, these glasses are set to compete with major players like Meta's Quest 3 and Apple's Vision Pro in the burgeoning AR market.
The Xreal Air 2 Ultra offers advanced six degrees of freedom (6DOF) tracking. This feature immerses users in a dynamic AR experience, enhanced by two integrated environmental sensors for precise real-time location and hand-tracking.
Despite packing more technology, the new model weighs just 80 grams, slightly more than the 72-gram Air 2.

🚨Apple is planning to launch the Vision Pro, which costs $3,499, around February. They're promising that developers can create spatially immersive experiences alongside projected flat screens.
On the other hand, Meta released the Quest 3 last October, priced at $499. It's a mix of virtual reality and mixed reality, so you can play things like digital tabletop games.

CASE STUDY

The Art of Prompting

Crafting effective prompts is essential for successfully using generative art tools. It involves finding the right mix of inputs to guide the tool's output. Although poorly constructed prompts can occasionally produce surprising and pleasing results, a well-crafted prompt offers greater control and efficiency in the creative process. Mastering prompt writing is key to consistently achieving the intended results.

💡There are several innovative prompt techniques highlighted for creating unique AI-generated images:

Style Fusion: This involves combining different artistic styles in your prompts, like "Michelangelo meets anime" or "Rococo goes steampunk." It's about experimenting with how various styles can merge to create unique imagery.

Lighting Effects: Using specific lighting terms like "dramatic," "volumetric," "cinematic," or "studio lighting" can greatly enhance the quality of the images. A special mention is made of "chiaroscuro," which emphasizes deep shadows and contrast.

Detailed Descriptions: Using terms like "insanely detailed" or "hyperdetailed" can enhance the intricacy of the images. Detail in the texture is also important, and if it's challenging to describe, using a picture of the texture can help.

ComfyUI prompt weighting:

This wasn’t apparent to me when I started playing with comfyui but it’s super important.
The importance of parts of the prompt can be up or down-weighted by enclosing the specified part of the prompt in brackets using the following syntax: (prompt:weight). E.g. if we have a prompt flowers inside a blue vase and we want the diffusion model to empathize the flowers we could try reformulating our prompt into: (flowers:1.2) inside a blue vase.

SNIPPETS

💲 Bitcoin ETF: January 10th is the deadline for the U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC) to make its decision on a handful of applications.

🚨 Open AI is now confronted with another lawsuit from writers. Two non-fiction authors allege that their work was used without permission to train the company's AI models.

🤖 Figure 01 learned to make coffee after watching humans for 10 hours.

🌘 First US moon lander since Apollo prepares to blast off on Monday.

💡 Samsung just revealed the world's first transparent MicroLED screen at CES 2024.

AROUND THE WORLD OF AI

Which graphics card offers the fastest AI performance?

AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, and Midjourney are changing the game in deep learning. They're turning what used to be complex theories into everyday reality. You don't need a supercomputer for this; a personal PC with a good graphics card does the trick.
This article looks at how well different graphics cards from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel handle AI tasks using Stable Diffusion.
They've tested 45 GPUs to see which one comes out on top. Let's dive in and see what these GPUs can really do with AI workloads.

🚀spoiler: “RTX 4090” is a powerhouse. and “RTX 3090 ti” is the third on the list.

▶watch: GeForce RTX 40 SUPER series GPUs unveiled by NVIDIA at CES 2024.

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