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Tripolygon, a 3D modeling software developer, lets metaverse creators make their own 3D assets

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There are a number of ways to make money in the metaverse by participating in play-to-earn games, buying virtual real estate, or creating 3D assets on metaverse platforms like Roblox, AltspaceVR and VRChat. Tripolygon was founded in 2018 by Hwang, who previously worked as a senior engineer at Crytek, a German video game developer.

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

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Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. To play catchup, the Beijing-based company added 3D capabilities to its engine last year.

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ConocoPhillips enlists 3D printing for supply efficiencies on Alaska’s North Slope

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Carlo had an inkling that 3D printing could really change the game.” Mathur, who held tech chief roles at Staples and Biogen before coming to ConocoPhillips in 2021, is referring to Carlo De Bernardi, a principal engineer at ConocoPhillips responsible for scaling the company’s adoption of 3D printing.

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Daily Crunch: New Point-E AI allows users to generate 3D objects from detailed text prompts

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Today, Devin ’s guide to gaming headphones is up! Making 3D out of text : That’s OpenAI’s new thing as it releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models. And not just any models, Kyle writes — it “generates point clouds, or discrete sets of data points in space that represent a 3D shape — hence the cheeky abbreviation.”.

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Top 10 AI graduate degree programs

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News & World Report ranks the best AI graduate programs at computer science schools based on surveys sent to academic officials in fall 2022 and early 2023 in chemistry, computer science, earth science, mathematics, and physics. Here are the top 10 programs that made the list that have the best AI graduate programs in the US.

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Gravity Sketch draws $33M for a platform to design, collaborate on and produce 3D objects

TechCrunch

Platforms like Figma have changed the game when it comes to how creatives and other stakeholders in the production and product team conceive and iterate around two-dimensional designs. One issue is that we think in 3D, but skills need to be learned, and most digital drawing is designed to cater to, translating that into a 2D surface.

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The Shape of Things to Come: What’s the Future of Computer Programming?

The Crazy Programmer

What will computer programming look like in the future? Will, there even be programming jobs, and what will they entail? Is there still a point to going into a computer programming career? Computer programming has always been an ever-changing environment. Computer programming has always been an ever-changing environment.