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Azad Balabanian

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3D scanning/VR—Product @nianticspatial, formerly @puzzlingplaces, @uploadvr. Perpetuel typos. Opinions my own

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They don’t want you to know that projectors have excellent off axis luminance

They don’t want you to know that projectors have excellent off axis luminance

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Stoked to see Steam frame working in complete darkness! IMO this needs to be a default feature for all XR devices (clip from 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙡𝙡’s SF review)

Stoked to see Steam frame working in complete darkness! IMO this needs to be a default feature for all XR devices (clip from 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙡𝙡’s SF review)

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Solve SF and now, preserved in 3d forever

Solve SF and now, preserved in 3d forever

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had my wife scan me. not bad, not great. likely needs a lot more photos

had my wife scan me. not bad, not great. likely needs a lot more photos

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splat troubleshooting guide: If you ever export a splat from NerfStudio that's transparent, let it train for another 1000 steps what's happening is the alphas get reset every 3k steps, so here when i exported at 12k steps, it was right when the alphas reset, hence the transparency. you can adjust the reset frequency with reset_every: int = 3000 this might've been obvious to some, but I was confused by it last night and found no discussions/explanation about it online. so posting it here to help others

splat troubleshooting guide: If you ever export a splat from NerfStudio that's transparent, let it train for another 1000 steps what's happening is the alphas get reset every 3k steps, so here when i exported at 12k steps, it was right when the alphas reset, hence the transparency. you can adjust the reset frequency with reset_every: int = 3000 this might've been obvious to some, but I was confused by it last night and found no discussions/explanation about it online. so posting it here to help others

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Some personal news! 📣 Recently, I joined Niantic as the product lead to work on MR apps and Gaussian splatting! Today, we’re launching “Into The Scaniverse”—A way of viewing Scaniverse splats in VR (yours and the ones posted to the map) 📸 It’s available as a webxr app via Quest Browser (for Q3 and Q3S), soon to launch in the Meta Horizon store. Honored to be working with quite a lot of brilliant folks at Niantic 🙌 Link to the webxr app 👇

Some personal news! 📣 Recently, I joined Niantic as the product lead to work on MR apps and Gaussian splatting! Today, we’re launching “Into The Scaniverse”—A way of viewing Scaniverse splats in VR (yours and the ones posted to the map) 📸 It’s available as a webxr app via Quest Browser (for Q3 and Q3S), soon to launch in the Meta Horizon store. Honored to be working with quite a lot of brilliant folks at Niantic 🙌 Link to the webxr app 👇

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Found a really cool accessibility setting in visionOS that exposes your eye tracking directly It’s really trippy to see your own saccades, especially when reading lines of texts.

Found a really cool accessibility setting in visionOS that exposes your eye tracking directly It’s really trippy to see your own saccades, especially when reading lines of texts.

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Gaussian splatting is so good at capturing context. For me, it has changed my approach to volumetric photography. For me with photogrammetry, it was very much either object-based, space based, or facade-based, always with the subject’s bounds being very clearly defined during capture But with splats, I can think more frustum-based, composing a scene with a foreground, background, and subject, and shooting it. It gives me back the freedom I had with traditional photography

Gaussian splatting is so good at capturing context. For me, it has changed my approach to volumetric photography. For me with photogrammetry, it was very much either object-based, space based, or facade-based, always with the subject’s bounds being very clearly defined during capture But with splats, I can think more frustum-based, composing a scene with a foreground, background, and subject, and shooting it. It gives me back the freedom I had with traditional photography

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Scan -> viewing in VR in less than 5 minutes It is pretty neat to have a Gaussian Splatting capturing platform (Scaniverse) + cloud storage + VR viewer (Into the Scaniverse) under one Niantic account

Scan -> viewing in VR in less than 5 minutes It is pretty neat to have a Gaussian Splatting capturing platform (Scaniverse) + cloud storage + VR viewer (Into the Scaniverse) under one Niantic account

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Holy shit IT WORKS!! One shotted with GPT6 Astra I now have a fork of UEVR where I can play any UE game within a volumetric window! This actually renders the game in 3D - meaning, two real game cameras, not some depth map bullshit. Everything looks right This is an alternative (and more comfortable IMO) way to play most 2D->VR hacked games as there’s no motion sickness, and no need to redesign the UI and interaction systems Needs a lot more polish before I publish it but OMG IT WORKS!

Holy shit IT WORKS!! One shotted with GPT6 Astra I now have a fork of UEVR where I can play any UE game within a volumetric window! This actually renders the game in 3D - meaning, two real game cameras, not some depth map bullshit. Everything looks right This is an alternative (and more comfortable IMO) way to play most 2D->VR hacked games as there’s no motion sickness, and no need to redesign the UI and interaction systems Needs a lot more polish before I publish it but OMG IT WORKS!

Azad Balabanian

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I had trouble fully unpacking what this paper actually was measuring, what its findings were, and what the implications are for human/primate consiousness so i had Claude read through the paper and this thread, compose a script, and create an explainer video

I had trouble fully unpacking what this paper actually was measuring, what its findings were, and what the implications are for human/primate consiousness so i had Claude read through the paper and this thread, compose a script, and create an explainer video

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Saw the new Spider Man movie today on a SCREENX screening and encountered bothersome projection issues: 1. The extended screens all were delayed by a frame from the main screen. 2. The white balance was SO off for all 4 extended screen projectors. Heavily green tinted 3. 1/4 extended screen projectors was much, much darker than the rest. Overall, I dug the ScreenX format, but these projection issues need to be ironed out. Maybe my theater was the issue (Stonestown Regal San Francisco)

Saw the new Spider Man movie today on a SCREENX screening and encountered bothersome projection issues: 1. The extended screens all were delayed by a frame from the main screen. 2. The white balance was SO off for all 4 extended screen projectors. Heavily green tinted 3. 1/4 extended screen projectors was much, much darker than the rest. Overall, I dug the ScreenX format, but these projection issues need to be ironed out. Maybe my theater was the issue (Stonestown Regal San Francisco)

Azad Balabanian

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dlss5 cutscenes of hogwarts legacy look insane (I turn it off 7 sec in)

dlss5 cutscenes of hogwarts legacy look insane (I turn it off 7 sec in)

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dlss 5 in hogwarts legacy is truly eye opening

dlss 5 in hogwarts legacy is truly eye opening

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Sf Embarcadero is popping tonight

Sf Embarcadero is popping tonight

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dlss 5 just does not understand children

dlss 5 just does not understand children

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why i'm sad about vr (and why there's still hope)

why i'm sad about vr (and why there's still hope)

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For people who don’t get the 2D gaming on virtual monitors in VR use case: HMDs have the potential to be the ultimate monitor for any content. Any aspect ratio, any resolution, any size, it’s all “native” in vr I get to play my game on a massive screen while I have spatial awareness, see my wife, take a sip of coffee, and have depth correct rendering content in my room. If and when I choose to, I can “turn off” my surrounds and go into a virtual environment. It’s MR by default, VR by choice Nobody has really taken this use case all that seriously and optimized the hardware/software around it. Now, it seems like Valve is. Also some context: I’m streaming SW Jedi Fallen Order at 4k 90fps my PC to my Vision Pro, and playing the audio thru my surround sound speakers. It’s the best of ALL worlds

For people who don’t get the 2D gaming on virtual monitors in VR use case: HMDs have the potential to be the ultimate monitor for any content. Any aspect ratio, any resolution, any size, it’s all “native” in vr I get to play my game on a massive screen while I have spatial awareness, see my wife, take a sip of coffee, and have depth correct rendering content in my room. If and when I choose to, I can “turn off” my surrounds and go into a virtual environment. It’s MR by default, VR by choice Nobody has really taken this use case all that seriously and optimized the hardware/software around it. Now, it seems like Valve is. Also some context: I’m streaming SW Jedi Fallen Order at 4k 90fps my PC to my Vision Pro, and playing the audio thru my surround sound speakers. It’s the best of ALL worlds

Azad Balabanian

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a few years ago, I painstaikingly scanned my old 4Runner right before selling it. Today I reprocessed the data as a gaussian splat It was a great little offroader. I'll visit it in VR some day and feel like I'm sitting back in the driver seat.

a few years ago, I painstaikingly scanned my old 4Runner right before selling it. Today I reprocessed the data as a gaussian splat It was a great little offroader. I'll visit it in VR some day and feel like I'm sitting back in the driver seat.

Azad Balabanian

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drone scanned 3 gaussian splats in the South Tyrol in Italy uploaded on #supersplat (link below)

drone scanned 3 gaussian splats in the South Tyrol in Italy uploaded on #supersplat (link below)

Azad Balabanian

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Wait what?? The meta photorealistic vr avatars are… 2D? (Clip from Nathie @ Meta Connect’s video)

Wait what?? The meta photorealistic vr avatars are… 2D? (Clip from Nathie @ Meta Connect’s video)

Azad Balabanian

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the Steam Frame works in pitch black thanks to its IR blasters and IR sensitive SLAM cameras with the default passthrough view, you can see some prettty cool things including: 1. Steam Frame's internals 2. Steam Frame's controller internals 3. Apple Vision Pro's LiDAR pattern 4. iPhone 13 Pro's LiDAR pattern 5. iPhone 13 Pro's FaceID pattern 6. My Asus monitor's proximity sensor

the Steam Frame works in pitch black thanks to its IR blasters and IR sensitive SLAM cameras with the default passthrough view, you can see some prettty cool things including: 1. Steam Frame's internals 2. Steam Frame's controller internals 3. Apple Vision Pro's LiDAR pattern 4. iPhone 13 Pro's LiDAR pattern 5. iPhone 13 Pro's FaceID pattern 6. My Asus monitor's proximity sensor

Azad Balabanian

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this looks insane

this looks insane

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accidentally loaded a 2 splats together (SF + church in Ani) and the result is kinda cool

accidentally loaded a 2 splats together (SF + church in Ani) and the result is kinda cool

Azad Balabanian

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i now have an on-device vibecoding setup to build openXR vr apps on my steam frame! godot even has live editing, so i can make changes to the scene (and i think even code) while the game's running. killer!

i now have an on-device vibecoding setup to build openXR vr apps on my steam frame! godot even has live editing, so i can make changes to the scene (and i think even code) while the game's running. killer!

Azad Balabanian

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Drone scans as Gaussian splats are truly spectacular to look at in VR, especially ones of San Francisco I’m in a complete “holy shit” phase of 3DGS and I’m loving every bit of it

Drone scans as Gaussian splats are truly spectacular to look at in VR, especially ones of San Francisco I’m in a complete “holy shit” phase of 3DGS and I’m loving every bit of it

Azad Balabanian

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my steam frame wireless adapter is almost always unavailable - unless I unplug and replug it in. anyone else? Im on steamOS beta on SF and steamvr beta on PC

my steam frame wireless adapter is almost always unavailable - unless I unplug and replug it in. anyone else? Im on steamOS beta on SF and steamvr beta on PC

Azad Balabanian

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hogarts legacy - dlss5 on a 4090 (i'm turing it on and off)

hogarts legacy - dlss5 on a 4090 (i'm turing it on and off)

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