China just dropped an open source model that turns... any phone into a 3D scanner you point it at a room and walk through it the whole space builds itself into a 3D point cloud in real time as the camera moves, no LiDAR and no depth sensor anywhere it held a full 13 minute walkthrough at 25,000 frames without the map drifting or collapsing > ~20 fps on a single GPU > works indoors and outdoors from plain footage > the scan normally needs a $50,000 rig and a technician > Apache 2.0 and runs fully offline on your machine repo in the replyshow more

Someone just built a desktop app that that generates... 3D models from images and runs 100% locally. It's called Modly. It runs entirely on your GPU, no cloud, no API bills. Just drop an image and get a 3D mesh. 100% Open Source.show more

SOMEONE BUILT A WAY TO SEND FILES BETWEEN TWO... PHONES WITH NO WIFI, NO BLUETOOTH AND NO NETWORK AT ALL it works with just a screen flashing qr codes at a camera one device plays an endless stream of animated qr codes, the other one points its camera at the screen and rebuilds the file out of the light no pairing, no app, no shared network, nothing but the camera > its pulling about 129 kb/s, a full 2mb image transfers in seconds > theres no back channel, the receiver can never ask for a missed frame, so it uses fountain codes, every frame is a scrambled mix of the file rather than one piece of it > that means the receiver just collects any frames it can catch in any order, and once it has enough it can reconstruct the whole file > dropping frames costs you a little time but never breaks the transfer > you can point the camera at a stream thats already running and it just locks on mid flight he was building a cached mp3 player because he was sick of ads and bad streaming quality. he wanted a way to send tracks phone to phone without both phones being on the same network, and realized flashing qr codes could carry the data he built the whole working prototype in one night with claude code its open source and already at 375 starsshow more

This week is already so hot. 🔥 Massive release... from Decart : Lucy 2.0 a World Editing Model running at 1080p, 30FPS in realtime. This is truly exciting, the era of real-time generative reality is here. We are moving from watching AI video to living inside AI video. A breakthrough model capable of transforming the visual world in real-time. Moving beyond offline rendering, Lucy 2.0 delivers high-fidelity 1080p video generation with near-zero latency. Lucy 2.0 literally "redraws" the entire world pixel-by-pixel, while you are watching it. e.g. If you want to be an anime character, it doesn't just put a mask on you. It turns your skin into anime skin, your hair into anime hair, and the lighting in your room into anime lighting. Lucy 2.0 is also trained to stop the generated video from slowly falling apart over time, so the same stream can run much longer without faces and details drifting. So why is this a "Massive Deal"? Traditional AI video-generation model takes a prompt, you wait 10–20 minutes, and the computer "bakes" a video for you. You couldn't touch it or change it while it was happening. But Lucy 2.0 works like a mirror. It happens in real-time (30 frames per second). There is no waiting. You move your hand, the AI character moves its hand instantly. The craziest part isn't the visuals; it's the physics. Usually, AI hallucinations are glitchy—hands merge into faces, walls melt. Lucy 2.0 understands how the world works without being told. It knows that if you take off a helmet, there is hair underneath. It knows that if you splash water, droplets fly. It learned "physics" just by watching millions of videos. The physical behavior you see emerges from learned visual dynamics, not from engineered geometry or explicit physics engines. Their official technical report explicitly states that the model does not use traditional 3D engines, depth maps, or wireframes. It is a "pure diffusion model."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

NVIDIA finally released Neuralangelo's source code! The model can... turn videos from any device into detailed 3D structures, fully replicating buildings, sculptures, or other real aworld objects or spaces virtually. Here's how it works: A model utilizes a 2D video with multiple angles of an object or scene. I selects frames from different viewpoints to understand depth, size, and shape. The AI creates an initial 3D representation, similar to a sculptor shaping a subject. The render is optimized to enhance details, like a sculptor refining texture. The outcome is a 3D object or scene suitable for virtual reality, digital twins, or robotics.show more

Introducing: OpenGranola 🔥 I built an open source meeting... copilot for macOS. It transcribes both sides of your call on-device, searches your own notes in real time, and hands you talking points right when the conversation needs them. No audio leaves your Mac. Point it at a folder of markdown files, pick any LLM through OpenRouter (Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, Llama), and it just works. It's invisible to screen share too — nobody knows you have it. The whole thing is open source. Link belowshow more

As announced in partnership with NVIDIA at CES, we’re... excited to introduce Stable Point Aware 3D (SPAR3D), setting a new standard in 3D generation. Ideal for running on NVIDIA RTX AI PCs, SPAR3D enables real-time editing and complete structure generation of 3D objects from a single image in under a second. You can download the weights on Hugging Face and code on GitHub, or access the model through the Stability AI API. Learn more here: (1/3)show more

This guy built a visual scanner that reads 468... points on his face and 42 points on his hands from a regular webcam and turns them into a cloud of thousands of particles right between his palms. Inside, MediaPipe and TouchDesigner are linked: the first captures hands and face from the webcam with high accuracy, the second turns those coordinates into a live plane and feeds it into a POP system that instantly generates a swarm of particles in the shape of a head. No studio, no render farmer, no VR headset. Just a laptop, a webcam, and 1 TouchDesigner session. And traditional VJ studios keep teams of 5 people on a setup with lighting, custom hardware, and commercial plugins, while his expenses are only a TouchDesigner subscription and a regular USB camera. One laptop runs MediaPipe and TouchDesigner simultaneously, holds the camera stream at 60 FPS without drops, and in parallel processes 468 face points + 21 points on each hand. The camera captures frame after frame, MediaPipe in real time sends TouchDesigner the finger coordinates and face geometry, and the POP operator inside the engine translates those numbers into thousands of particle points with colors from bright pink to gold. This setup immediately defines the role of the tool and the limits of its autonomy. It knows where the fingertips are at every moment of the frame. It knows how to read the face geometry at any angle to the camera. It knows how to draw a swarm of particles between them with the right color and contour. → MediaPipe pulls 468 points from the face and 21 points from each hand, 60 times per second → TouchDesigner receives those coordinates, builds a virtual rectangle between the fingertips, and feeds it into the POP system → POP generates thousands of particle points in the shape of a head, coloring them in a gradient from bright pink to gold → The HUD layer adds green corners and a blue neon frame, styling the image like an AR interface → All layers assemble into 1 real-time frame that projects back onto the video in the camera window → The final image is recorded to a file or broadcast to a projector for a live installation And only when the guy spreads his hands wider does the plane between the palms stretch; brings them together, it narrows. Otherwise the system runs on its own. And when he moves from his home room to a concert hall, the same laptop with the same webcam launches the same TouchDesigner session in just 5 minutes, without reconfiguration, without a new team, and without a single line of new code. In his work setup there is no studio of his own and no team for assembly. On the desk sits a laptop with a webcam, on top run MediaPipe and TouchDesigner with POP operators, and the same setup through a USB camera moves to any concert without a new configuration. Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the cleanest Creative Coding setup on 1 laptop: 0 render farms, 0 studio lighting, and between them 3 libraries, thousands of particle points, and 1 webcam.show more

Outline any shape and Drafted turns it into a... real house plan. 🏠 It's a new way to explore the different layouts and room configurations that are possible within your space. Here's how it works 👇show more

NVIDIA open-sourced a 600M model that transcribes 40 languages... in real-time at 80ms latency and it costs $0. that's faster than you can blink. across mandarin, arabic, hindi, portuguese, tagalog, whatever,from a SINGLE checkpoint. → 17x more concurrent streams than buffered ASR on the same H100. → punctuation + capitalization built-in. no post-processing. → runs on your own GPU. no API bill 100% Open Source.show more

From flat image to animated 3D models in Spaces... → Generate 3D models from an image or a prompt → Retexture, remesh, convert and UV unwrap on the canvas → Auto-rig your characters and apply animations → Snapshot any model into your image or video workflow Now on Magnificshow more

#AI doesn't run on algorithms alone. It runs on... data. Your phone translates a menu with one camera point. Your car reacts to a hazard before you do. Your email suggests the perfect reply at a tap. Memory and storage make it happen. 👉 #IntelligenceAcceleratedshow more

THIS GUY VIBE CODED A FREE TOOL THAT TURNS... UGLY BARCODES INTO BEAUTIFUL SVG ONES THAT STILL SCAN you paste in a barcode, and it turns it into a styled, artistic SVG that still scans perfectly the tool makes it look good AND keeps it scannable free, no account needed, AND they export as SVGs if you've ever looked at a barcode on your product packaging and thought "this is ugly" you might want to look into thisshow more

CATCH A DESIGN PROBLEM ON AN EMPTY LOT, IT'S... FREE. CATCH IT AFTER FRAMING, IT'S A CHANGE ORDER. This is a phone camera on an empty yard, AR-mapping the actual house frame onto real ground, full scale, before anything gets built. WITHOUT AR WALKTHROUGH: Design issue caught during or after framing. Cost impact: 5-40% of project budget, per construction cost-overrun research. On a $450,000 build, even the low end of that range is $22,500 in avoidable overruns. WITH AR WALKTHROUGH: Design issue caught on the empty lot. Cost impact: a five-minute walk and an edit to the plan, before anything's actually built. That gap is the entire pitch. Not a fancier rendering, a cheaper mistake. This clip shows a house before it exists. The article below covers the flip side, scanning a space that already exists and turning it into something anyone can walk through from a phone, no headset needed.show more

Huawei's new 3D lock screen wallpaper is actually pretty... interesting. Unlike iPhone's Spatial Photo, which creates a fixed stereoscopic depth effect from a photo, this lets you scan an object 360°, generate a full 3D Gaussian Splatting asset, and use that as your lock screen. Tilt the phone and you're moving through a reconstructed 3D scene, not a fixed stereo image. The part worth paying attention to: 3D capture moving out of creative pipelines and into everyday phone personalization. That's a different kind of adoption curve.show more

SOMEONE JUST VIBECODED A PROGRAM THAT DOWNLOADS ANY WEBSITE... ON THE INTERNET every $35,000 agency site is now yours to rip clean for $0 fully open source, save it before it's gone you paste one url and it does the rest: → crawls the entire site → grabs every file: html, css, js, images, even the fonts → rewrites every link to run fully offline → packs it all into a downloadable zip runs entirely in the browser, nothing to install or sign up for point it at any site you admire and the whole front-end is yours: → clone it → archive it before it dies → crack open exactly how it was built the thing agencies gatekeep for five figures is now a 10-second download bookmark this oneshow more

I'll always root for a team that open-sources its... best work, and Robbyant just did it properly. Robbyant, Ant Group's embodied-AI company, released LingBot-Vision, a vision foundation model for robots, and the part I love is the data. They trained it on 161M images, filtered down from 2B raw ones and mostly pulled straight from the open web, with no human labels, no edge detectors, no depth sensors anywhere in the loop. It learns the exact edges of objects from raw pixels. That's roughly a tenth of the data DINOv3 saw, and under a third of the training. And it shows in the results. On depth, working out how far away things are, the 1B model edges out a 7B on NYU-Depth. It also powers LingBot-Depth 2.0, which reads the surfaces cameras usually choke on, glass and mirrors, and halves indoor depth error. LingBot-Vision is fully open. Weights from the 1.1B flagship down to a tiny 21M version, code, and the paper. This is the timeline I want more of. Robbyantshow more

NVIDIA DROPPED A MOTION DIFFUSION MODEL FOR HUMANOID ROBOTS... trained on 700 hours of mocap data kimodo generates high-quality 3D human and robot motions from text prompts you control it with: → full-body pose keyframes → end-effector positions/rotations → 2D paths and waypoints works on human skeletons and unitree G1 robot plug the outputs directly into mujoco or retarget to other robots using GMR has a web-based interactive demo with a timeline editor. runs locally needs ~17GB VRAM to run inference open source under apache 2.0show more

New vibecode project: 3D world generation on your phone... ✨ Take a photo of a room or space, and transform it into a new style. Then generate a world you can explore. Made in Cursor using two new APIs - Flux.2 Klein (BlackForestLabsAI - Unofficial) and Marble (World Labs). How it works 👇show more