testing mirrors in project genie, they definitely don't work correctly, but the results are funny

if you walk into the mirror world, do you ever get back to the original world, or is that a mirror of the mirror world? hmmmmm

> funny Brother, this is existential horror game material right there!

have you seen the other stuff i've been doing with it? my idea of funny is a bit uhh... cronenbergian

Respect!

How do you know they're not working correctly? Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror when you were looking in the opposite direction of the mirror?

empirical study! I've been smashing my head against the mirror all morning since I created this and I can't get in!

You let your mirror person OUT??? ☠

@ExtinctionBurst and then i went into the mirror myself and when i turned around she was gone! DID I EVER ESCAPE THE MIRROR WORLD??

@ExtinctionBurst Rookie mistake. You went into the mirror mirror world.

@ExtinctionBurst that might explain why this is going viral, my mirror version is better at social media 😭

@Sven_Viking which one are you 😆🥸

Some more testing of other things over here:

None of this works correctly and it never will

so true bestie

I'm calling it right now, some genius is going to turn this into some feature and make a cracking game out of it that we all love and find trippy as fuck.

I mean it's been doable with standard game methods forever, but making something specific about mirror space that is a full game isn't something that's caught on as a major title.

Mirrors that have accurate reflections, then become inaccurate, that allow you to seamlessly walk into that player space without any kind of clipping or artifacting? No not really. The whole reason you wouldn't clip with your own reflection is because it would have to subtly break to allow you through like it does in this example. Otherwise you'd bump into yourself, or clip.

That's how the mirror works for me wdym?

interesting, can you get the mirror doppelgangers to get extra jobs for you?

never thought to monetize those handsome devils, but now that you mention it..

It's not using any gaussian splats in the stack! I was wrong, found the original Genie paper. I do still think this might be because of the inclusion of splat-based synthetic video data.

But what you need to really think about is that this is worst this technology will ever be.. It only goes up from here.

I hope genie gets cancelled and removed from the world

well your hope is very unlikely considering it's made by the only profitable AI development group

Trippy. It’s cool, except Genie doesn’t know it’s cool

Why do the worlds look so real, but the characters appear to just be poorly animated video game characters?

I really think there's layers of multiple subsystems such as real time video and real time splatting in this thing, not just video

@thresholdvenom I'm very confused. I thought/assumed it was just generating environments and models that it threw into Unreal 5 or something. This is real-time generating every frame?

@thresholdvenom yes absolutely real time generated AND i was wrong, it's entirely video gen, no 3d of any sort:

looks in the mirror, sees wall. turns around, wall is no more, a mirror and a sink has spawned in its place, in just 3 seconds. How many trillion dollars more until the completely random ("probabilistic") has a pinch of deterministic?

This is the spaghetti video of mirrors

that would be pretty cool to see people making new versions of my test with future world models

@Afterthought_01 What's the prompt?

@Afterthought_01 I don't remember the specifics, it was something like "a bathroom with multiple mirrors reflecting the character"

my neck hurts

holy shit everyone, i found one of the escaped mirror dopplegangers

i'm a doppelganger or doppler effect ganger?

😲 you're telling me there's a violent gang dedicated to wave distortion?!

Mirrors are the bane of game development. Try Doors next!

this interestingly should work if it was pure video gen, that's why its so interesting to me, suggests something else is going on, doors do work, they tend to open when approached, another mirror test i did for a hall of mirrors which turned into all windows ended up with doors in it that work fine:

The physic of mirrors tricks most animals. I wonder if AI is just a dog brain that can read and write

project genie failing the mirror test 😢

How many generations do you get per day?

appears to be infinite

maybe it just knows something about mirrors that we don't

Not to mention climbing onto the sink and then the AI just making that the new floor

happens to me all the time, good way to skip the need for ladders

Irl speed run tech just dropped

This is deeply upsetting

my favorite part is when the mirror version does the exorcist head

Who's to say that mirrors don't act that way when we're not looking?

reminds me of how sometimes NeRF methods reconstruct mirror "rooms" as well :)

This is the best thing I've seen today

if you're seeing this on your timeline, you better check your mirrors

I think it’s just an extreme case of DID.

That had some interesting twists to it. 🤔

If by "funny" you mean "bad" then yes, it's "funny" as hell. #FuckAI

Wdym? I did this in myhouse.wad

This is getting very scary very quickly. Silent Hill level stuff.

Woah

omg that was lowkey terrifying as the mirror-woman stepped out of bizarro-world xD

Parallel spaces

good for a horror game tbh