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Midjourney Office hours: They're working on a 3d system that will allow you to move into Midjourney images. Not polygons, not NeRF, not Gaussians. But a new NeRF-like format, with a team lead by someone who played an important part in the rollout of NeRF technology. Sorry polygons, but... show more

Martin Nebelong

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Hussein Dembel Sowvor 1 Jahr

that Alex Evans? He is working at midjourney!

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Martin Nebelongvor 1 Jahr

Oh yes I know! He's been there a few years. Very exciting stuff.

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Robert Scoblevor 1 Jahr

Or as Unity’s @3duaun says: “real time hallucinated reality.” I shorten it to “Holodeck.” :-)

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Joe ⭕ Dot ⭕ Averagevor 1 Jahr

I don't know enough about game development, but are the Polygons JUST for rendering visuals? I always thought of the polygon as the base wireframe that did collision detection and things like that, so the logic of the game could work. If they are sort of using 2d images to make 3d predictions, it sounds like it would look amazing for video, but can you build a game off that if there isn't an a real 3d model underneath?

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Simeon Tolenecvor 1 Jahr

I'm sorry but the success of Elden Ring and Black Myth Wukong have already proven what gamers want in a game. Wukong is full of photoscanned polygons rendered in full detail by UE5 Nanite. The future is already here and it's not NeRF.

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Martin Nebelongvor 1 Jahr

"the success of Mario and Sonic have already proven what gamers want in a game and it's not 3D".. 😉 The future is difficult to predict, but polygons are not the pinnacle of immersive 3d. Gameplay and storytelling will continue to be key though, no matter what.

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Plinyvor 1 Jahr

Polygons will be around for as long time. They are useful for semantically segmenting the scene and providing temporal stability and for art directing. They just won't be rendered to the screen.

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dinko_pavicicvor 1 Jahr

You still need polygonal entites for collisions, shadow catching, scene segmentation for fast rendering rejections and so on.

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Stefano Riveravor 1 Jahr

For real, who needs polygons. I tried a simple (very optimized) gaussian spat on the Quest 3, and well, it literally tricked my brain in feeling smell and touch.

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illusion diffusionvor 1 Jahr

Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis - 1/6 people comes to mind

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Jon Rahm on the LIV format: “Yeah, obviously there’s been a bit of a change. There was a lot more about LIV Golf that was attractive to me, right. Yeah, maybe the format was a set back in the past, but at the same time there’s a lot of positives to it as well. And one of the things that a lot of players kept mentioning is you don’t have a wave weather difference, where you can simply get unlucky and you’re out of contention for that tournament. It’s part of the game, I get it, but it’s something you don’t have to deal with anymore. So that part is a very nice aspect. The team is what really made it for me. Being able to be part of a team, represent a team, play for my teammates, with my teammates and against my teammates, is something that to me that has always been very, very special. When you get a victory to share, it’s always better to have a team to share it with. So it’s what was the most attractive part and when we started discussions it gets to a point where even though I’m ambitious, I’m not greedy. So there’s a give and take and the format is something that I can easily overlook, and I’m pretty sure I can learn to enjoy it, I’ll just have to get used to it, but I’m pretty sure I’ll learn to enjoy it. To be honest, the more I started thinking about it, the more I started thinking about my college days that were 3 day tournaments, 54 holes, and everybody warmed up together for the most part. So it shouldn’t be an environment I’m unfamiliar with.” This is from the LIV podcast called “Fairway to Heaven”. Full link:

Jon Rahm on the LIV format: “Yeah, obviously there’s been a bit of a change. There was a lot more about LIV Golf that was attractive to me, right. Yeah, maybe the format was a set back in the past, but at the same time there’s a lot of positives to it as well. And one of the things that a lot of players kept mentioning is you don’t have a wave weather difference, where you can simply get unlucky and you’re out of contention for that tournament. It’s part of the game, I get it, but it’s something you don’t have to deal with anymore. So that part is a very nice aspect. The team is what really made it for me. Being able to be part of a team, represent a team, play for my teammates, with my teammates and against my teammates, is something that to me that has always been very, very special. When you get a victory to share, it’s always better to have a team to share it with. So it’s what was the most attractive part and when we started discussions it gets to a point where even though I’m ambitious, I’m not greedy. So there’s a give and take and the format is something that I can easily overlook, and I’m pretty sure I can learn to enjoy it, I’ll just have to get used to it, but I’m pretty sure I’ll learn to enjoy it. To be honest, the more I started thinking about it, the more I started thinking about my college days that were 3 day tournaments, 54 holes, and everybody warmed up together for the most part. So it shouldn’t be an environment I’m unfamiliar with.” This is from the LIV podcast called “Fairway to Heaven”. Full link:

Flushing It

562,904 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

Trump on the racist Obama post: A staffer posted, I knew, it was all about, if you take a look at it and see the whole thing, it was a small section at the end…I liked the beginning, I saw it and passed it on, but probably nobody reviewed the end of it. Somebody slipped and missed a very small part. I didn't do it, by the way, it was done by someone else. This was a retruth. It was not done by us.

Trump on the racist Obama post: A staffer posted, I knew, it was all about, if you take a look at it and see the whole thing, it was a small section at the end…I liked the beginning, I saw it and passed it on, but probably nobody reviewed the end of it. Somebody slipped and missed a very small part. I didn't do it, by the way, it was done by someone else. This was a retruth. It was not done by us.

Republicans against Trump

1,641,334 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

"Courage is far shorter in supply than genius." - Peter Thiel "One of the challenges in writing a book about entrepreneurship or teaching a class on this is that there is sort of no formula. And I think science always starts with a number two. It starts with experiments you can repeat, things you can do over and over again. But there's sort of a sense in which every moment in the history of business, every moment in the history of technology happens only once. The next Mark Zuckerberg will not be starting a social networking company. The next Larry Page will not start a search engine. The next Bill Gates will not be starting an operating system. And so if you are trying to copy these people, you're in some sense not learning from them. And so I think one of the really big challenges in teaching or writing about entrepreneurship is what can you say about being an entrepreneur at all when the key thing is always to do something new, different, that's not precisely been done before. And so the point of departure I start with in Zero to One is a somewhat indirect approach by asking a series of contrarian questions. The business question is, what great company is nobody starting? The more intellectual version of this question is, tell me something true that very few people agree with you on. And this is a fantastic interview question. It turns out to be quite a hard question, even when people can read on the internet that you ask of everybody who comes in the door, it still is a hard question. It's one of those unusual questions where if you know it's on the test, it's still hard. And it's hard not just because we sort of think that new things require brilliance or something like that, but because it's socially difficult. If I ask you that question, if you tell me something like the education system is screwed up or our political system doesn't work very well, those are true answers, but they're not actually good answers because all of us already know them to be true. The good answers are ones that are somehow uncomfortable that the person interviewing you does not actually want to hear. And I think we live in this world where courage is in far shorter supply than genius. And so it is sort of this, it is in a sense this problem of political correctness properly understood, is this very deep, very, very broad sort of a problem."

"Courage is far shorter in supply than genius." - Peter Thiel "One of the challenges in writing a book about entrepreneurship or teaching a class on this is that there is sort of no formula. And I think science always starts with a number two. It starts with experiments you can repeat, things you can do over and over again. But there's sort of a sense in which every moment in the history of business, every moment in the history of technology happens only once. The next Mark Zuckerberg will not be starting a social networking company. The next Larry Page will not start a search engine. The next Bill Gates will not be starting an operating system. And so if you are trying to copy these people, you're in some sense not learning from them. And so I think one of the really big challenges in teaching or writing about entrepreneurship is what can you say about being an entrepreneur at all when the key thing is always to do something new, different, that's not precisely been done before. And so the point of departure I start with in Zero to One is a somewhat indirect approach by asking a series of contrarian questions. The business question is, what great company is nobody starting? The more intellectual version of this question is, tell me something true that very few people agree with you on. And this is a fantastic interview question. It turns out to be quite a hard question, even when people can read on the internet that you ask of everybody who comes in the door, it still is a hard question. It's one of those unusual questions where if you know it's on the test, it's still hard. And it's hard not just because we sort of think that new things require brilliance or something like that, but because it's socially difficult. If I ask you that question, if you tell me something like the education system is screwed up or our political system doesn't work very well, those are true answers, but they're not actually good answers because all of us already know them to be true. The good answers are ones that are somehow uncomfortable that the person interviewing you does not actually want to hear. And I think we live in this world where courage is in far shorter supply than genius. And so it is sort of this, it is in a sense this problem of political correctness properly understood, is this very deep, very, very broad sort of a problem."

Founder Mode

12,339 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

A new cinematic AI piece. "Panopticon - Survivorship" This is my sixth piece in my Midjourney + Magnific.ai + Runway series. I've been on a bit of a creative streak for the past week and loving this new process. I almost gave up on this one, but then finally found a narrative through line. It looks at those who survive a disaster, but it is a contemplation of those who did not survive. We not only zoom in on those who are trying to get to safety, but we zoom in looking for those who may not have survived. We also zoom into elements that may help identify people. It also looks at who is hardest hit by a disaster and it is often people of color and I hope the piece elicits a question of why this is the case and an examination of the dark history it may uncover.

A new cinematic AI piece. "Panopticon - Survivorship" This is my sixth piece in my Midjourney + Magnific.ai + Runway series. I've been on a bit of a creative streak for the past week and loving this new process. I almost gave up on this one, but then finally found a narrative through line. It looks at those who survive a disaster, but it is a contemplation of those who did not survive. We not only zoom in on those who are trying to get to safety, but we zoom in looking for those who may not have survived. We also zoom into elements that may help identify people. It also looks at who is hardest hit by a disaster and it is often people of color and I hope the piece elicits a question of why this is the case and an examination of the dark history it may uncover.

Chikai

33,485 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren