Aaron Hilton

Mixed Reality core tech dev, uplifting the human spirit with great tech and UX design. @steampunkvr @monocle_3d

[Aaron Hilton @otri]

@thsottiaux Expand Shell Terms: When Codex is running commands, the fact I can't expand the tiny terminal window is unnecessarily frustrating. I need to inspect outputs, and often I need to look at various agent run shell scripts, especially when it fires up concurrent runs.

[Aaron Hilton @otri]

@willeastcott @slimbuck7 Awesome scan!!!

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@albn @plbiojout In other words, frontier models are going to quickly hit a cost wall, $1000/mo will break even in 6 months with your own hardware. Data centers will become irrelevant for the inference usage.

[Aaron Hilton @otri]

@albn @plbiojout 💯this👆 you're not a slave to work, enjoy your 10x throughput and then rest. I could see $100 plan making sense with current frontier models. However friends are achieving similar levels with offline small models and clever instrumentation of the logits before tokenization.

[Aaron Hilton @otri]

@WangZhao_0849 YEAH! This is great, I'm excited to try this out. I plan to pair generated models with Looking Glass holographic displays.
Can you explain how we might use sparse aligned multi-view with Pixal3D? You mention it in your research paper, but the code is limited to single view.

[Aaron Hilton @otri]

🎉 PSA Looking Glass Go is on sale for $99 USD!
Wowza.. go get 'em! These are fantastic little personal holographic displays.
https://t.co/0ELaOkRTlE

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@pham_blnh @rerundotio That's freak'n brilliant, love it. 🤖🦾❤️

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@durreadan01 Believe it or not, this auto shape correcting thing was a marquee feature of Newton message pad, waaaay back in the day. I had one. It was nice.

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@elonmusk You must be bored doing formalities in China, but you're a champion of all humanity. You just gotta do it man. USA and China need to play nice together.

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@DuckbillStudio Understandable. Well that is amazing!! 🤩

[Aaron Hilton @otri]

@XRarchitect That'd be awesome. Yes please!

[Aaron Hilton @otri]

@OncelTuzel @kwangmoo_yi @Apple That's super! Excited to try it out with our Monocle 3D pipeline.

[Aaron Hilton @otri]

@MattNiessner @SpAItial_AI Awesome work! 🤠👍

[mrdoob @mrdoob]

@googleearth 👀 https://t.co/uABiSC09lv

[Google Earth @googleearth]

Today, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Shapefile and 3D model import support on Google Earth. Plus, we’ve also added elevation profiles to the measure tool just for… good measure! https://t.co/vpIJA3HCv4

You’ve made it clear. You want to be able to bring more of your data and models to Google Earth’s real-world canvas. We're excited to take the next step in delivering on that promise with these new features:

🔶 Shapefiles (SHP): Render industry-standard geospatial data as performant, cloud-native layers.
💡 3D Models (GLB): Place custom architectural mock-ups, massings, and more in a visually rich context.
🗻 Elevation Profiles: View detailed terrain data in the measure tool you already know and love.

These new features are live now on Google Earth!

[Aaron Hilton @otri]

@om_patel5 @jezell This kind of support nonsense is why I've ditched Anthropic. Same experience, hit a bug, chewed up my API credits unexpectedly, found the source of the problem was their bug. Confirmed, but no refund at all. Just a thank you, but tough luck. Like really now, WTF.

[MrNeRF @janusch_patas]

Heads up: there are some changes coming to LichtFeld Studio.

LichtFeld is growing quite a lot, but contributions are not. In fact, besides the two corporate contributors and one bronze sponsor, there is less than $100 on average contributed per month. There were 10,000 downloads in the last 30 days, and nobody contributed anything financially back to the project. Not a single dollar. I cannot support my living on that basis.

Given the amount of work I am putting into this project, and it is a lot, often easily 60 hours a week, to provide a state-of-the-art, self-contained 3D reconstruction suite that is used by businesses around the world, this situation is no longer sustainable. The idea was to grow it together, but at the moment it is mainly being used without enough support in return.

If every user had contributed only $10, the continuation of the project would have been secured. I have asked for that quite often. I like sharing my knowledge, but I cannot sustain it under these circumstances.

Going forward, there will not be any free binaries provided anymore. I created a portal at https://t.co/mdGITFOGVQ which will give access to daily binaries after registration and donation. This will hopefully help finance the development and maybe even allow me to pay someone in addition.

If you cannot afford it, you can still put in the work and build it from source. There are no restrictions.

I am aware that people like to work around something like this, and they certainly will. But in the end, that simply means that my work on this project will be discontinued at some point.

Btw, after payment an invoice will be automatically issued!

[Aaron Hilton @otri]

@janusch_patas @pablovelagomez1 Great idea, and you can expect a donation from me! Let's keep this momentum going! 🚀