Sadly the controls are not mobile friendly and I ended up spinning wildly.
Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
? Is over-the-air TV broadcast not encrypted and compressed to oblivion in the US? Cause it definitely is here, and you're expected to pay for a decoder card, except for a small handful of channels.
It's not encrypted, no. And the picture quality is very good. Not 4K, but good quality 720 or 1080, depending on the channel.
Most every OTA channel here in Spain (at least in Valencia) is 1080i, with a few being 720i, but there's two 4K test channels, one SDR and one HDR. Not sure of the bitrate, but the SDR one looks stunning on my TV (which "supports" HDR but looks horrible in HDR mode). They usually just play loops of B roll of various Spanish things, festivals, random clips of theatre productions and things like that. It's pretty neat!
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#153As a child of the 90s, I see this as one of those rare, genuine examples of the “museum in cyberspace” imagined by the futurists of the day. Thank you for keeping the dream alive!
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of that. On opening it, my mind went immediately to the 3D virtual tours in Encarta.
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#154The Metaverse Standards Forum has had some activity around gaussian splats recently, for example debating whether it's too early to standardise.
There's a town hall on 5th March with speakers from Niantic and Cesium: https://metaverse-standards.org/event/gaussian-splats-town-h....
The previous splats town hall, and other related talks, are on the videos page (there was another gaussian splat talk a couple of days ago from Adobe). https://metaverse-standards.org/presentations-videos/
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#155Sadly the controls are not mobile friendly and I ended up spinning wildly.
Works fine on iOS safari, two finger drag to move
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#156I wasn't expecting to be able to see through the lattice structure. Amazing amount of detail.
Naively, it seems to me that the many needle-like artifacts further away from the tower could be filtered out?
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#157This is great but please implement mouse look! It makes it way more immersive and is the lingua franca of FPS interactions.
You can free look with the right mouse button
Right, or with multitouch gestures on trackpad but I want true mouse look. Better. Pleeease!
You can gate it with pointer capture API but please do it!!!!
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#158The help text mentions a "little cube" that would enable AR mode, but I can see no cube.
Touch controls are very weird and don't rotate the view as expected.
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#159As a child of the 90s, I see this as one of those rare, genuine examples of the “museum in cyberspace” imagined by the futurists of the day. Thank you for keeping the dream alive!
Indeed, you might be interested in the Artificial Museum project, which has managed to realize that ol' cyberpsace dream all over the place:
For example, check the Vienna map .. so many interesting locations!
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#160it so nearly runs on a Quest 3. The next gen of mobile XR chipsets (or maybe even the current gen with less thermal throttling) are going to be able to handle these kinds of scenes with a bit more optimization.