Stony Brook University researchers have found a way to create your dynamic 3D avatar using video clippings from your phone.

Have you ever wished you had a 3D avatar to talk to your friends in a fantasy world? Or that you could teach your kid to interact with elephants in virtual reality? Or that you had a digital double starring in your reels?

Bringing reality to fantastic worlds like The San-Ti’s planet from the novel, The Three-Body Problem, seems like a far cry. But we’re closer to creating these realities than we were only less than two decades ago, when Google introduced Street View in its Maps.

Gov. Kathy Hochul secured $400 million in public and private funds for Empire AI — a consortium of SUNY, CUNY, and private universities and foundations — to position New York State at the forefront of AI research and innovation.

Albany, NY, April 30, 2024 - On Tuesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul highlighted the New York State’s initiatives to advance artificial intelligence, sharing her vision of making New York the next Silicon Valley.

“This is our Erie Canal moment,” Hochul said, “Whoever dominates the next era of AI, will dominate history, and indeed, the future.”

Professors Niranjan Balasubramanian, from the Institute for AI-Driven discovery and Innovation, and Michalis Polychronakis, from the Department of Computer Science, have each received Amazon Research Awards to further advance their fields of research.

Join Stony Brook University researchers and CubicAcres as they transform vast farms into vertical towers and push the boundaries of human-robot collaboration.

Stretching the end of a road and huddled in a corner sheltered by trees, stand a series of shipping containers, home to the world’s most advanced vertical farms. Inside them, machines buzz to circulate air and water, and artificial lights shine on, bringing life to curtains of plants rising above. The scent of salad leaves is fresh in the air.