# 2025.08.12 Weekly Meeting

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2025-08-12-weekly-meeting/44051>\
**Category:** Weekly meetings\
**Created:** [August 11, 2025, 8:13pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2025-08-12-weekly-meeting/44051 "2025-08-11T20:13:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sam\_Horvath](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/sam_horvath/32/3092_2.png) [@Sam\_Horvath](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Sam_Horvath)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 8:13pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2025-08-12-weekly-meeting/44051/1 "2025-08-11T20:13:44Z")

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Tomorrow, we will be having our next weekly hangout at **10:00 AM ET until 11:00 AM ET.** a

Anyone is welcome to join at this link: [https://bit.ly/slicer-googlemeet-hosted-by-kitware](https://bit.ly/slicer-googlemeet-hosted-by-kitware)

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> **Weekly Meeting**
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> **Starts:** August 12, 2025, 10:00am (America/New\_York)

**Agenda:**

Please post to this thread to put a topic on the agenda! We will try to prioritize agenda items during the meeting.

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Thanks  
Sam and J-Christophe

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**Author:** ![jcfr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jcfr/32/17825_2.png) [@jcfr](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jcfr)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2025-08-12-weekly-meeting/44051/2 "2025-08-19T13:18:47Z")

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### Meeting Notes

#### SlicerWarp Experiments

@pieper presented an early integration of [NVIDIA Warp](https://github.com/NVIDIA/warp) into 3D Slicer. Warp is a Python/CUDA-based simulation framework that supports CPU and GPU execution and integrates efficiently with PyTorch. Notable features include:

- All simulations are differentiable by default.
- Integration with Slicer is performed using NumPy arrays.
- Warp is being refactored into a standalone library called [Newton Physics](https://newton-physics.github.io/newton/guide/overview.html), which will continue using Warp under the hood.

**Licensing**  
Warp was recently relicensed under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, making it more compatible with open-source projects like Slicer.

**Complement to SOFA**  
The group discussed how `SlicerWarp` could serve as a lightweight and performant alternative or complement to SOFA, particularly since many of the integration patterns with Slicer are similar.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/6/a/6abf58970f1d257a30334ed2faf749f947cf6572.jpeg)

#### Whisper & Slicer Integration Experiment

Prototype by @mau_igna_06:

A live demo was shown that enables voice-based interaction with Slicer through a web browser. The system:

- Uses a WebAssembly (WASM)-compiled version of [whisper.cpp](https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/tree/master/examples/command.wasm) for speech-to-text processing.
- Runs entirely in the browser and sends parsed voice commands to Slicer using the existing **WebServer** module.

This proof-of-concept highlights a promising direction for making Slicer more accessible via natural language interfaces.