This week we have articles from Christine Vallaure and Simon Yuen. News comes from The Enterprise Knowledge Graph Foundation (EKGF), BA Insight, MediaValet and FFW, Kyndryl and Microsoft, and Lucid.
Opinion / Analysis
An era of digital humans
The process to create a digital human is extremely labor-intensive and manual. NVIDIA is researching tools and developing ways to accelerate and simplify digital human creation — and we believe AI and simulation is the key to doing this.
Simon Yuen leads NVIDIA’s Digital Human efforts and explains what they are doing to make digital humans more realistic and useful for a wide range of applications. There are also a couple of fascinating short videos.
https://medium.com/@nvidiaomniverse/an-era-of-digital-humans-bfa10d41e289
Why designers should move from px to rem — and how to do that in Figma
If you are anything like me, you happily used Pixel (px) in Sketch and Figma during the past years without thinking much about it. It is the unit they gave me. Surely it is correct, and if not, the development team can fix that, no? Plus, there are a lot of people saying my design should be pixel perfect, right?
Christine Vallaure points out that designing only with pixels conflicts with accessibility requirements, and then provides a deep dive on why, and what can be done about it. She is writing for other designers, and developers, but the article will be illuminating for anyone interested in web design and/or accessibility.
More reading…
- So simple it doesn’t even look like AR at first, but effective… Walmart’s augmented reality app is perfectly low-key via Debugger
- Not at all simple. Impressive… Light Field Lab’s new naked-eye holograms via Charlie Fink. Demos at https://www.lightfieldlab.com
- Mining all those PDFs, including for entities… Natural language processing, Adobe PDF Extract, and deep PDF intelligence, via Adobe Tech Blog
- Great idea. Normalizing datasets and UI… Hugging Face Introduces ‘Datasets’: A Lightweight Community Library For Natural Language Processing (NLP) via Martech Post
Content technology news
Enterprise Knowledge Graph Foundation (EKGF) releases draft maturity model
The open source EKG/MM is a collaboration of experts and practitioners designed to promote best practices across the knowledge graph community.
https://gilbane.com/2021/11/enterprise-knowledge-graph-foundation-ekgf-releases-draft-maturity-model/
BA Insight for Amazon OpenSearch Service and BA Insight for Amazon Kendra now in AWS Marketplace
Offerings provide customers the ability to easily subscribe to the BA Insight technology stack directly through their existing AWS accounts.
https://gilbane.com/2021/11/ba-insight-for-amazon-opensearch-service-and-ba-insight-for-amazon-kendra-now-in-aws-marketplace/
MediaValet partners with FFW
FFW customers will be able to aggregate, secure, organize and access their digital assets as their organizations grow.
https://gilbane.com/2021/11/mediavalet-partners-with-ffw/
Kyndryl and Microsoft establish global strategic partnership
To accelerate digital transformation across industries built on the Microsoft Cloud to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption, modernize applications and processes.
https://gilbane.com/2021/11/kyndryl-and-microsoft-establish-global-strategic-partnership/
Lucid updates Lucidspark integration with Teams
The new integration feature allows users to collaborate and interact with a Lucidspark board directly within a Teams meeting, sharing it to the meeting stage.
https://gilbane.com/2021/11/lucid-updates-lucidspark-integration-with-teams/
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