“Translate this IKEA assembly manual into a 3D narrated instructional video” with Opus 5.5. Overnight, Opus just became the most actually useful video model, via code.

Thanks @AnishDAC for the idea!

GENIUS

Turns the wrench the wrong way for some reason.

useful if it also flags which cam lock you grabbed by mistake, that's where these builds actually go wrong

The line telling you which cam lock NOT to use is my favorite part. The paper manual never tells you that, you find out at step 9 😂

crazy! even the text to speech is by opus or is it another provider?

The real benchmark is whether I finish with the right number of leftover screws. A side-by-side check against each manual step would make this much more useful than a polished demo.

out of curiousity, what is the cost for the tokens this took as a % of the product price?

IKEA spent decades making manuals with no words so they'd work in every country. Opus basically did the same thing lmao.

Try re-running this exact example 2 months from now

IKEA manuals were the original wordless UI. The real test is whether fewer people end up with a spare bolt.

IKEA should offer this by default honestly. It would cost them nothing

ヒートマップ解析で見える「視線の動き」も大事だけど 最先端の3Dナレーション技術は「動線設計」という概念に通じるよね 使う脳の領域が違うだけで理解度が劇的に変わる仕組みがあるんだ ヒートマップって単なる数字じゃなくてユーザーのストーリーを読む手掛かりなんだと思う

Too bad this took a few hundred million tokens

You could sell this to manufacturing companies!

now combine that with Meta glasses.

The future of visualisation storytelling

Finally! Video via code you can actually rerun.

Tbf this is A) like the simplest steps possible, B) is annoyingly slow (personal preference i guess), and C) it MUST be correct for more complicated instructions - is it??

Had this idea 3-4 years back to solve it using computer vision models back then. thought of packaging it as an app and sell it ikea. Lol

@SwedishPM Ulf, please pass this info onto @IKEA and instruct them to start doing it for all the products.

ikea manuals were the last wordless ui. opus just added the narrator

I am still at a loss to find out that people have trouble with ikea installation and setup. Just boggles my mind people are this retarded.

IKEA bench

Code-prompted assembly steps enforce spatial consistency frame-to-frame without drift between instructions. Breaks when camera needs to move mid-step.

I think "via code" is the real story here. A video model redraws every frame and can drop a screw between shots. A program that renders the scene keeps the part count exact, and you fix step 7 by editing one line. PostScript made the same bet in 1984, shipping the page as a program for the printer to draw.

Now overlay in AR/VR

Share the code 👀

Nice! Actual useful work being done!😜everyone hates reading assembly manuals, they should do this from the start. How many gigawatts we gonna need for everyoe to translate🥵

Lego time?

In some time I probably might need YouTube only for topics to learn, then spin my own videos and podcasts for myself

At this point after seeing so many opus 5.5 videos from you, I am really excited to see how much @MenloVentures would would skyrocket from anthropic's ipo :)

The educational video format is great for millennials, but I doubt this format would work for Gen Z or Gen Alpha.