This Week in Tech 111

This week we explore:

This is something even we feel. The acceleration is accelerating and it’s hard to know what’s important and relevant to keep up with. Even while writing this newsletter we are struggling to take note of every announcement and development in order to translate what it means for our readers.

These are the key takeaways from this great read on how to stay ahead:

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Will everyone be able to create their own high quality cartoons and anime this year? SeeDance 2.0 is making it look like it will be possible for us to go from imagination to real episode with generative AI. Check out all the examples floating around the Internet.

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An engineer on X has demonstrated the workflow he created to capture his surrounds and use World Labs’ API to turn it into a fully navigable digital world in minutes. While the metaverse might have soured on the public, the technologies that will help us blur the lines between physical and digital reality are quickly coming together.

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Standards are everything in technology. Providing a path for gaussian splats to be a part of glTF would accelerate the creation and adoption of 3D content. When standards are put into place, the community can rally behind them and make significant progress with shared tooling and support.

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In 15 minutes this video breaks down the latest developments in next-gen sports technology and how it might make its way to your eyeballs this decade.

0:00 Immersion Gap
0:48 Computer Vision & Hawk-Eye
1:42 Player Tracking & Wearables
2:08 AI Analytics & Real-Time Stats
3:07 VR Sports Viewing & Why It Fails
4:16 Radiance Fields & Gaussian Splatting
5:10 Viewpoint Pro: Virtual Replays
5:59 Arcturus: 4D Gaussian Splatting
7:31 Muybridge: Virtual Camera Systems
9:53 F1 Vision Pro Experience
11:26 XR Sports Alliance
11:47 COSM: The $600 Ticket
13:04 The Future of Sports Broadcasting

Beautiful. Simply beautiful. Jony Ive strikes again using the skills he acquired over his long career crafting intuitive and tactile products. This time his expertise has been applied to an elite driving machine. Ferrari tasked Jony and his company with creating an interior befitting their first all electric car. One might say he did not disappoint.

Check out the article from Engadget or google “Jony Ferrari” to see some videos.

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We love to see advancements like this. Amidst a flurry of cancer treatments making their way to human trials scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have announced a new spray that could be revolutionary for emergency medical treatment.

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With longevity top of mind one of the biggest detractors to our lifespan is cancer, but it seems that might not be the case for long. Over the last week there have been announcements related to blood, lung, breast, pancreatic and colon cancers that have potential treatments in the pipeline.

All of that on top of Russia’s potential cancer vaccine that has been successful in human trials. We remain skeptical of this until there’s verification within our country but nonetheless it’s promising.

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While their ultimate vision is a manned mission to mars the company admits that the moon is a lower hanging fruit in terms of building humans a colony off-planet. They still plan on getting to Mars and starting construction in 5-7 years but their near term vision has its sights set on the moon for its first self growing city in space.

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If you haven’t seen any examples from SeeDance 2.0 I suggest you find them on the Internet. We are running out of time until it will be impossible to tell whether a piece of content was made by humans or AI with the naked eye. Maybe there will be metadata or hidden watermarks to help tools validate it but a human will have a very tough time. This will have an impact on all forms of content from Hollywood to social media but also helps democratize high quality creative production.

We’re really on a biotech kick these days. Most announcements are speculative research with some success but I have a feeling a consumer ready breakthrough is going to shake up our understanding of what diseases and ailments can be treated in the near future. For instance we now have a spray that instantly stops bleeding? Tony Stark aka Iron Man had that in Marvel’s Infinity War. What AI did to coding in 2025 is starting to take hold in science in 2026. The renaissance begins.

As AI continues to pour gasoline on the fire of progress we are going to see things come out that we would’ve expected in years or decades time. Each year of progress has been condensed into a month. Each month has been condensed into a day. Each day into a few minutes and so on and so forth. I don’t think we’re prepared for what’s coming. January was already pretty jam packed with announcements. February is looking to follow suit.

What do you think is coming next?

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