The VCS team gets a call about creating visuals for the Las Vegas Sphere—the biggest screen on Earth. Most studios would need months just to plan it. VCS had six weeks. So what did they do? They built an entire pipeline that could preview their work on Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro without ever setting foot in Vegas.
That's BC innovation. We don't just solve problems—we reinvent how problems get solved.
Scene: Picture this: They're testing the visuals in a Whistler
parking lot, Quest headsets on, fine-tuning a show that would
eventually play on a screen the size of four football fields.
Someone walks by with their dog, probably thinking they're crazy.
They're actually making history.
But that's just one story. Let me take you to the SFU Metacreation Lab.
For years, I've been documenting BC through my lens—every corner, every moment, every play of light. Now, we're training small AI models on this archive. But here's the wild part: The AI isn't just recreating photos—it's dreaming in the visual language of BC. It's learning not just what we see, but how we see.
Story Beat: The first time I saw the AI generate an image
that captured that unique Vancouver light—you know, when the
rain's just stopped and everything glows—I realized we weren't
just training an AI. We were teaching it to see beauty the
way we do.
Then there's Suzanne Gildert at Nirvanic AI. While everyone else is debating if AI can think, she's exploring if AI can feel. Her quantum conscious robot dog project went viral, but that's just the surface. She's asking questions that could only come from a place where technology and humanity collide in interesting ways.
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