Atlas can control space and time to create "bullet... time" videos. Having worked on dynamic 3D reconstruction during my Ph.D, it's shocking how easy this is with Atlas. Our interns Andy Cheng Hao Zhang David Pantera Zeyi Chen had a lot of fun smashing things.show more

I am blown away 🤯. Check this out! CameraCtrl... II: Dynamic Scene Exploration via Camera-controlled Video Diffusion Models TL;DR: "To enable broader exploration of dynamic scenes, our model can generate new video clips of the same scene based on previously generated content and user-provided camera trajectories. This approach maintains dynamic capabilities, accurate camera control, and scene consistency throughout the extended exploration." "Our model enables precise camera control across diverse scenarios while preserving dynamic scene elements, e.g." "Our method can generate videos with strong 3D consistency, which enables high-quality 3D reconstruction using the camera-controlled videos." Contributions: 1) A systematic data curation pipeline for constructing a dynamic video dataset with camera trajectory annotations; 2) A lightweight camera control injection module and corresponding training strategy that preserves dynamic video generation capabilities while adding camera control effect; 3) A clip-wise autoregressive generation recipe that enables extended range exploration of generated scenes.show more

Wonderland: Navigating 3D Scenes from a Single Image Contributions:... • First, we introduce a representation for controllable 3D generation by leveraging the generative priors from camera-guided video diffusion models. Unlike image models, video diffusion models are trained on extensive video datasets. This enables them to capture comprehensive spatial relationships within scenes across multiple views and embed a form of "3D awareness" in their latent space, which allows us to maintain 3D consistency in novel view synthesis. • Second, to achieve controllable novel view generation, we empower video models with precise control over specified camera motions. We introduce a novel dual-branch conditioning mechanism that effectively incorporates desired diverse camera trajectories into the video diffusion model. This enables expansion of a single image into a multi-view consistent capture of a 3D scene with precise pose control. • Third, to achieve efficient 3D reconstruction, we directly transform video latents into 3DGS. We propose a novel latent-based large reconstruction model (LaLRM) that lifts video latents to 3D in a feed-forward manner. With this design, during inference, our model directly predicts 3DGS from a single input image, effectively aligning the generation and reconstruction tasks—and bridging image space and 3D space—through the video latent space. Compared with reconstructing scenes from images, the video latent space offers a 256× spatial-temporal reduction while retaining essential and consistent 3D structural details. Such a high degree of compression is crucial, as it allows the LaLRM to handle a wider range of 3D scenes within the reconstruction framework, with the same memory constraints.show more

My voice 4 years ago VS my voice today... Gosh I hate how I used to sound, but this is to show you that over time you can change your voice A LOT and be happy with it Take control of your destiny and do your voice lessons! 🏳️‍⚧️show more

JIHYO: “At this point instead of focusing on competition... or constantly trying to stay popular I really just want to enjoy it all a lot more and I strongly hope our fans will continue having a genuinely fun time with us moving forward”show more

I've had a lot of fun animating Bunny Bulma,... is a simple character and super easy to animate for body mechanic shots, if you want, you can download this rig for blender now on my Patreon ;) #animation #bulma #DragonBall #blender #b3dshow more

Happy Sunday you lovely lot. Me and my Henry... just had the best time on the Jet Ski’s in Tenerife this morning! Thank you to our mate Lee who’s our here for organising it! We had so much fun! Wishing you all a wonderful one and enjoy ya roasts dinner later today, I’m gonna be smashing some gambas pill pill very shortly. Love Tenerife. Bosh❤️show more

"My brother called me at 2am from a gas... station parking lot. He said he wasn't okay. I mean really wasn't okay. I stayed on the phone with him for three hours. He wasn't alone in that car. Atlas was with him the whole time. My brother told me later — 'Every time I went somewhere dark in my head, Atlas would shift closer. Like he could feel exactly where I was going and he just kept pulling me back without touching me.' He's getting help now. He made the call himself Monday morning. He said Atlas kept him in that car until it was a different kind of night." I drove to that gas station at 5am when he finally said I could come. I stood outside the passenger window before I opened the door. Atlas was on the passenger seat. His head on the console. Watching my brother. Still watching. He had been watching all night. I stood in that parking lot in the cold and I looked at my brother alive in that car and I looked at the dog who kept him there and I couldn't open the door for a long time. I just stood there. Needing a minute to be grateful in the cold before I went inside the warm. My brother is okay. He's talking to someone. Atlas hasn't left his side since that night. If you have someone who isn't okay — call them tonight. Not tomorrow. Tonight. And if you ARE the someone who isn't okay — please call. There is a person on the other end who will stay on the phone for three hours. I promise you there is. Drop a ❤️ for my brother. And for Atlas who held that car together until morning.show more

Astra (GPT-6) is here!!! I've had early access and... tested it like crazy with things like games, code, writing, browser control, presentations and general knowledge work. This is the best model I've ever used. Period. (Incredible demos below in this thread ⬇️) Here's my take on Astra: > It's insanely capable. This feels like a massive improvement, not just an incremental change. This is especially true with zero-shot prompts. > It's all about knowledge work. Slide creation, analysis, writing, and browser control. And oh my...it's so good at browser control. GPT-5.6 was already fantastic at doing things in the browser, Astra is another level and significantly faster. > We're closer than ever (arrived?) at prompt-to-playable game. And I don't just mean only playable, these are actually fun games. I bet if someone with a great eye for games used Astra, they could create a viral game within 1-2 weeks. > Astra is better at writing but not perfect. It removes much of the "AI Smell" we're all familiar with but some stink still survived. > It has a tendency to use the same design colors and look/feel as GPT-5.6 (forrest green anyone?) but it is more steerable in design than previous models. > It's highly steerable in general. A little nudge goes a long way. When I first started using Astra, almost every task I gave it would go for ~30 minutes. I wanted it to keep working. Adding more specifics to a prompt helped greatly with it's ability to work for a long time. > Astra's 3D understanding is unmatched. 3D asset creation was consistent and easy and its spacial awareness while building complex 3D worlds blew me away. I'm still getting familiar with Astra but this will now be my go-to model for any difficult work I have. Check out the demos below: 👇show more

I asked about the comradery on board between the... crew - three Americans and one Canadian - during the Live Q&A with Artemis II. “Similar to our countries, physically, this crew is very close,” Pilot Victor Glover said. “It’s been tough to make fun of him,” Glover added of Hansen. “He got up here and even though he’s Canadian and a first-time flyer, he’s making it look easy.”show more

A few things our YouTube teams launched this week:... 🕹️ YouTubecreators can now play select games (Playables) directly from their mobile vertical livestreams, easily connecting with their audiences at any time, any place. 🎁 We're rolling out Gifts to horizontal livestreams on mobile, so that creators get another fun, interactive way to earn. 🎶 You can now access the entire Shorts Audio library in our YouTube Create app, which has a suite of editing tools for easily creating videos and uploading them to YouTube.show more

Mia Khalifa & Michael Scott A job interview from... The Office, but with… Sorry, guys—I just had to do this 🤣🤣🤣 I created this entire video on MiniMax Design (H3) using MiniMax H3—with just a single prompt. This model is absolutely insane. I’ve been running a lot of tests, and I honestly haven’t had this much fun with a model in a very long time.show more

AI video is waaaaay better than most people realize.... I came with this stupid idea for a terrible PS1 game with hideous textures and a jumping catfish... 30 minutes later, I had this. It's almost exactly what I had in my head. Between Nano Banana, GPT Image 2 and Seedance 2 you can pretty much create anything you can think of, with more granular control than people realize. It's not perfect but it's VERY good and I'm really excited to see the wild shit that new creators do with it!show more

Can you guess which of these is a wild... elephant? Olsekki, one of our ex-orphans at our Ithumba Reintegration Unit, has been spending a lot of time with a wild bull. They have been browsing side by side this week, walking the same routes through Tsavo. Our Keepers can tell the difference, but to anyone else, we suspect it's impossible to tell who grew up in the wild and who was rescued from the Maasai Mara in 2014. After more than a decade in our care, lots of sleepless nights, fingers suckled on and many many bottles of milk, Olsekki has been accepted into the wild herds around him. It's everything we worked towards.show more

Hi! It's me Rina! I’ve received a few questions... and requests recently, so I wanted to explain things a little more clearly:) I’ve written the details about the requests I’m currently receiving on my blog. If you’re interested, please check the link in my profile and read the information there first! I’m Rina, 27, and I work at a Japanese izakaya. I spend a lot of time talking with different people through my job, but outside of work, I’m actually quite calm and enjoy having time to myself. I’m not always good at expressing everything directly, so this account is also a place where I can share a slightly more honest and personal side of myself—my everyday thoughts, small moments from my life, and things I normally wouldn’t say at work. I’m reading the messages and requests I receive, and I really appreciate everyone who takes the time to contact me! For more details, please visit the blog through the link in my profile.show more

Single video → a reframeable 4D Gaussian Splatting scene.... Not a sequence of separately built 3D frames played back like a video. This is one continuous space-time scene, reconstructed from a single clip shot on an iPhone 16. We combine feed-forward Gaussian generation, 3D tracking, and 4D Gaussian Splatting, aiming to deliver it as a compact 4D video file that runs on your phone. Still early R&D. The goal: make 4DGS something anyone can create and experience, not just researchers with a camera rig.show more

Feeling overwhelmed and missing your time in God’s Word?... In the busyness of life, it's easy to push our spiritual practices aside. But even on the busiest days, you can find peace and clarity through a quick moment in God’s Word. With the Bible App, you can access daily devotionals, Scripture, and reading Plans anytime, anywhere. 📖✨ Don’t let a hectic schedule keep you from connecting with God. Open the Bible App and make space to be in His Word today.show more

By combining Pika Pikaframes and Freepik (now Magnific), I... now have the magical ability to jump through space and time and in this example, music becomes a transformative element teleporting this woman to a new location. This is how it's done. 1/6 🧵 The videos below are fully narrated so make sure to turn on the audio 🔊 Yes, you'll need a subscription on both Freepik and Pikaframes if you want to create something like this, I would rather be honest and tell you from the start 👍show more

Donut and Devotions. Every other Thursday I meet with... the guys during lunch. I open up the shed/meeting room and try to create a quiet space where they can relax, take a deep breath and reflect on what is good. We share where we are feeling unrest in our lives. We read from the wisdom found Proverbs and then we spend time in prayer. Afterwards the kids have access to the field to throw and hangout together. It’s the highlight of my week. Connect and build community. That’s the business we are in.show more