Azad Balabanian

3D scanning/recon—Product @nianticspatial, formerly @puzzlingplaces, @uploadvr. Perpetuel typos. Opinions my own

[Azad Balabanian @Azadux]

Today, I did some aerial photogrammetry from a plane!

Due to the cabin being tight and my cam’s viewfinder disp. not rotating, i had to get clever. Using the HDMI input on my @FatsharkRC FPV goggles, I had a clean feed of my camera, which worked super well!

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@gfodor @NimaZeighami Gotta have more SVVR get-togethers

[jt @trev3d]

networked environment scanning & drift correction soon(™)

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@trev3d This is so sooo cool

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@374_Karim @thirdmetax They look like iPhone shots

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I think the snap specs look kinda sleek actually (and 10x better than their last dev kit)

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@Michael_Moroz_ Oh yeah one of those is my splats! Cool

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@SadlyItsBradley @josethevrtech Clever!

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@tomthecarrot @ParthArora1105 Exciting!

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@benz145 100%. I swapped my AVP for a small gaming handheld (AYN Thor) + xreal glasses. Size and portability is everything for traveling

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@DuckbillStudio I don’t understand why people are shooting videos with drones instead of photos (apart from 360 drones). Photos are higher res, higher quality, higher FOV, and have GPS data ingrained in EXIF already

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@pvncher The 1st part is the hard part

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@YeheLiu They work just fine. The only drawback vs printing on paper is that 3d printers can have much looser tolerances than 2D printers. But if you don’t need a crazy level of scale accuracy,‘it’s fine

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@DanyBittel Large scale volumetric/lightfield displays are end game for 6DoF photography :) https://t.co/cOka0gH4Lo

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Ok, this is awesome

The kind folks at @holoxica reached out to me with their 32” 8K Gen2 @LKGGlass to showcase my work and sent me back this video. ooooo boy 😍😍

I can't imagine how amazing this looks in person... so sharp!! GN!

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Viewing @DanyBittel macro splats on an OLED at midnight. Peak

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@gsmattu FYI it’s Magazberd

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@gsmattu Wow it’s gorgeous. Looks like ani without the rest of the city!

[Ben Lang @benz145]

My honest take: I can’t wait to use Steam Frame. But it needed to launch 3 years ago to move the needle on VR beyond hardcore users. The industry is in the midst of a transition to a new class of headset, and Steam Frame already looks dated at launch.

I respect the people at Valve for building the thing they personally want to use. I think that ethos will make Frame beloved by a particular group of people, but that group probably isn’t going to grow substantially beyond where it’s at now.

[Azad Balabanian @Azadux]

@cogentia also here, i focus on on all trees and foliage https://t.co/WVfFNeoQW9

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Some observations regarding the Gaussian splats in apple maps visionOS 27

- the quality is very consistent. No ghosting, no holes, no semi opaque surfaces.
- the off axis views are quite high fidelity. Doesn’t suffer from novel view angles
- i don’t see any reflectivity or spherical harmonics. Probably to save bandwidth cost or training speed

Impressive stuff!

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I believe that Apple Maps in visionOS 27 is a combination of photogrammetry meshes + Gaussian splats.

Here’s proof (🔈 on)

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@cogentia

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@pablovelagomez1 With a mavic mini 4 pro and a patient wife :)

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A year ago, my wife and I were in these hills in South Tyrol

Now I get to revisit it as a Gaussian splat! Just posted it on SuperSplat - https://t.co/WYSGSzpzuD

downloadable with CC4.0-- Go nuts!