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Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco

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Re: Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco

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Post by itishappy »

cloudfudge wrote: post #167

This brings a meta quest 3s to its knees. It's almost so bad you can't quit it, and the video lags 15 seconds, which is very disorienting to be immersed in (it can make you fall down). Shame, since it looks gorgeous.

Weird. Runs totally fine on Intel integrated graphics. 15-20 fps, but starts instantly and is responsive.

Re: Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco

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Post by PaulHoule »

poutrathor wrote: post #169
cloudfudge wrote: post #167

This brings a meta quest 3s to its knees. It's almost so bad you can't quit it, and the video lags 15 seconds, which is very disorienting to be immersed in (it can make you fall down). Shame, since it looks gorgeous.

what part is the culprit : the meta quest or the 3D implementation from the website ? On a classis laptop, it behaves well

The quest is underpowered (it's basically a midrange Android phone you wear.) More efficient coding or a simpler model would help. Inside the Scaniverse does something similar with a high framerate but the models are simple and don't look very good.

I had to power cycle mine to get out, but boy was the view great despite the motion sickness.

Re: Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco

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Post by slater »

what wrote: post #119
slater wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not because their budgets are being slashed every year?

Why wouldn’t you slash the budgets when enrollment is decreasing? And when you expect a 15% decrease in enrollment over the next 10 years?

Chicken, egg?

Re: Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco

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Post by accrual »

This is very cool. I feel like the technique used (gaussian splatting) gives it a more realistic appearance from certain viewpoints. It almost felt like my monitor turned into a window in the sky looking out over the city for a moment. The illusion falls apart once once drifts too far from the nominal viewing area, but until then, it looks even better than something like Google Earth which renders actual polygons for everything.

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Post by franky47 »

FinnKuhn wrote: post #164

I can also recommend "Tunnel Vision: An Unauthorized BART Ride", which was made by the same author and is a really great documentary film. It's free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Jrp6it9Ss

"Good morning, and welcome to the Black Mesa transit system" is the first thing that popped in my head when the train started moving.

Re: Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco

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Post by sm_park »

Samin100 wrote: post #20

Wow! I'd love to read a more in-depth blog post describing how to create one of these myself, and maybe even contribute my own splats to a collaborative library for iconic landmarks. I could see interactive splats being added to Wikipedia for popular locations.

There is an app you can try https://scaniverse.com/. it splats using your phone's gpu.
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