3D scanning/VR—formerly @nianticspatial, @puzzlingplaces, @uploadvr. Perpetuel typos. Opinions my own
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Today, I did some aerial photogrammetry from a plane!
Due to the cabin being tight and my cam’s viewfinder disp. not rotating, i had to get clever. Using the HDMI input on my @FatsharkRC FPV goggles, I had a clean feed of my camera, which worked super well!
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Aw snap!!! Someone on Reddit put 3DGS on an old iPod Nano. This blows my mind. Just a couple years ago this required high end GPU.
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Zindan / Dara, Mardin
photogrammetry, 2026
Located northwest of the ancient agora, the Church Cistern is one of Dara’s largest surviving cisterns, with a capacity of 2,000 m³ and a height of approximately 15 meters.
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Cutting floaters off of Gaussian Splats like this is unironically a really meditative experience!
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Fable 5.2 implemented MCP for Gracia Studio and then used it to perform a very tedious ill-posed task of removing background from our 4D asset
Bitter lesson has arrived for all professional software
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Frame Control is now in public beta on TestFlight! If you have a Steam Frame headset, give it a try and let me know how it goes.
Join the beta: testflight.apple.com/join/9x…
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1M triangles ➡️ just 2 with Octahedral Impostors! 🤯
12 draw calls down to 1
Bake color, shading & depth from multiple angles into ONE texture atlas.
Runs in @threejs & Needle Engine
needle.click/mesh-baker
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Announcing SplatXR, our #UIST2026 paper and open source Unity toolkit for building interactive XR experiences with 3D Gaussian splats! 🥽
SplatXR brings splat rendering, physics, effects, and interaction to standalone AR/VR headsets like Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro.
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using my Steam Frame to create a Gaussian splat was NOT on my bingo card
this is truly awesome! @arcturusvision, with its steam frame add-on camera has a fork of Spirula Studio that lets you train a high quality splat of any space, for FREE, on windows/macOS/linux!
you scan bu recording a video with the Arcturus Vision Camera app, then transfer it to your PC (they have a utility for it, to do it via USB or over wifi), then train with their fork of Spirula Studio on your computer
more info here arcturus.vision/apps#sync
I got an early look at this recently and loved it
It reminded me of 2016/2017, an era where 3d artists and shader wizards were DEEP in vr, building insane installation pieces experimenting with hyper-dimensional, tangible, multi sensory mixed reality experiences
I truly miss the creativity of that era.
It got drowned out by funding drying up, PC VR fizzling out, and vr gaming becoming the main thing
If you’re curious to explore some of those creations, I highly recommend @MuseumOR on Steam
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you know how parents say "I forget how SMALL my kids were..."
im convinced that if you have kids (and are a nerd), you should buy a Steam Frame w/ Arcturus cam or an Apple Vision Pro to record spatial videos of them
watching them in a 3D spatial video is truly the only way you can re-experience how smol they were!
it's truly so, SO cute
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the fact that this was written … last year … breaks my brain
There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
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Do you have a MacBook Pro? With an SD Card slot?
Your slot now has an API. Write to a file, blink the lights.
Or let your agent use it to get your attention.
More into sidepulse.io/pro
LED Animation Format: github.com/inteliwear/sidepu…
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The K-pop industry is moving quickly with 4DGS. Shot and processed by @4DV_ai