I bought some at 100k mc, now it's 500k mc, $pnut
it actually has a nice story,
hippo(moodeng) is at 200m,
why don't we have a squirrel memecoin?👀👀🔜
If it works, send to 10m 🔥🔥🤝
I’ve been obsessed with the most exciting software tech today that’s not AI: Gaussian splats.
It’s the next generation of videos where you can move around in the scene. And the whole thing renders in realtime on your iPhone.
I went into a pretty deep rabbit hole on it.. so here’s some history.
The initial idea was: can we take pictures from different angles and reconstruct a 3D scene?
Fun fact: one of the seminal papers in the field (“Photo Tourism”) was written by a professor I taught graphics for in college, Noah Snavely!
Problem: objects look different at diff angles, because of light etc
Then we had NeRFs which could figure out lighting. Problem: extremely slow.
Gaussian splatting represented a 3D scene with diffuse blobs (gaussians) that encoded structure and appearance. Now, you could take camera shots or drone shots and make a splat in <5s.
Problem: a) still needed many images b) splats were static and didn’t have video in them c) unseen parts of video or holes are just black or missing
Still need many images? Apple’s ML SHARP can take one image and give you a splat!
Can't have video? Companies like 4DV ai who made the video below build special capture techniques which allow dynamic scenes to be put in a splat
Parts of the video just black? Generative models (a subset of world models) can fill in the missing parts not captured by camera.
What does that leave us with?
The future entertainment format whether it's in VR on a Vision Pro or interacting with immersive video are going to use splats. There's still open problrms:
a) how do we create splats more efficiently
b) how do we store and stream them more efficiently
c) how do we make them visually more realistic (lighting d) instead of being a flying camera, can we move like a video game character in the space and interact with objects
Splats are closely related world models and virtual reality. Cool projects like Seoul World Model take street view images and let you fly through any part of the city. It's only a matter of time before the entire world gets a 3D representation we can move through baked straight into Google Maps. Or you can play control a video game character watching a live sports game.