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Teaching Sustainable Creative Technologies
Chelsea Thompto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05320 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05320

Teaching Sustainable Creative Technologies
Artists and especially new media artists contribute to public perceptions and adoption of new technologies through their own use of emerging media technologies such as augmented and virtual reality, generative image systems, and high-resolution displays in the production of their work. In this way, art and media production can be understood as part of the larger issue of unsustainable computational consumption. As such, it is critical for artists to develop, share, and promote new and more sust…

Say It, See It: A Systematic Evaluation on Speech-Based 3D Content Generation Methods in Augmented Reality
Yanming Xiu, Joshua Chilukuri, Shunav Sen, Maria Gorlatova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12498

Say It, See It: A Systematic Evaluation on Speech-Based 3D Content Generation Methods in Augmented Reality
As augmented reality (AR) applications increasingly require 3D content, generative pipelines driven by natural input such as speech offer an alternative to manual asset creation. In this work, we design a modular, edge-assisted architecture that supports both direct text-to-3D and text-image-to-3D pathways, enabling interchangeable integration of state-of-the-art components and systematic comparison of their performance in AR settings. Using this architecture, we implement and evaluate four rep…