That's wonderful, nice work! Love the ambient audio track.
Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco
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#92How feasible would it be to generate high-quality guassian splats of everywhere, starting with big cities, like Google Maps street view and 3D view?
Then you can make video games and interactive experiences in real-world locations. I doubt the collision handling is there, but you can at least start with something like Microsoft Flight Simulator with low-flying drones.
It would also be great for training AI to generate realistic-looking scenarios. Besides playing and working (ex: VR) in real places, you can in very-realistic liminal spaces. (And it's training on public areas, so less ethical issues.)
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
> One of the most desirable places on earth to live and it's on a small peninsula. Yet it's a sea of single-family homes as far as the eye can see. Ever wondered if it’s desirable BECAUSE it’s not a dense urban jungle?
There are lots of places that are not dense urban jungles and are not desirable, so I'm certain your explanation is insufficient.
You're assuming some linear/symmetric relationship, by trying to relate an inverted sign! The more direct question is, are there dense urban jungles that are desirable? A good way to measure that might be comparing where wealthy people live, with the assumption that desire and price are related, locally. Do they live more inner-city, or do they live more in the suburbs at the outskirts?
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#94Completely unrelated, but aerial views of San Francisco blow my mind with how under-zoned the city is. One of the most desirable places on earth to live and it's on a small peninsula. Yet it's a sea of single-family homes as far as the eye can see. The distance between Sutro Tower and the "Downtown" SF is less than the distance between the Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park. But could you imagine if that space was fill…
> One of the most desirable places on earth to live and it's on a small peninsula. Yet it's a sea of single-family homes as far as the eye can see. Ever wondered if it’s desirable BECAUSE it’s not a dense urban jungle?
Bullshit. It's desirable because it's the tech capital of the planet. Is New York undesirable because it's developed density?
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#95That is so cool! I really wanna do a project like this just for fun to understand it
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Is it cheaper because the infrastructure is going farther Yes, that's exactly it! > or because every individual is getting less and less of an overburdened commons? No, it's not that at all. Why would common services be overburdened? Everyone still gets their water, sewage, electricity, internet, etc., but it's far cheaper to provide per-person. And with the density you get to build public transit, so people aren't…
>Why would common services be overburdened? Water restrictions? Fatbergs? Brownouts? Congestion? Traffic? Breathing room? Not to mention increasing demand on any inelastic local supply will drive up prices. To my initial point, the upscaling of utilities and infrastructure is often magically handwaved alongside the up-zoning demands. There are real negatives to cramming more and more people into one place!
Fatbergs and brownouts point to underinvestment in utilities (budget problems / many historic, undemolishable buildings)
You need to keep less $ invested in infrastructure per person if everyone lives on top of one another in a condo.
If everyone lives in a white picket fence SFH then you have to build miles of extra roads, pipes, cables. Every trip for every bus, truck, and car is a bit further.
There's a lot to be said for both rural and city life but cities can be much cheaper if there's unrestrained development.
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#97Broadcast television is amazing, and I'm so sad it's dying out. OK, maybe we don't need to tune in at 6 to watch the latest episode of "Friends" anymore, but for any kind of live events - news, sport, politics, having high-definition video you can pull right out of the air without having to worry about paying for data, latency, or bandwidth limitations, is amazing. For certain applications the internet can never comp…
? 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.
Are OTA channels subscription based where you are (where)? Or the "decoder card" is just some middleware crap you buy once? Our OTA TV has always been ad-supported, they just moved the same channels to digital though in larger markets there are now quite a few new low-overhead licensed syndicated content options, presumably due to the cheaper cost of air slots.
Re: Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco
#98How feasible would it be to generate high-quality guassian splats of everywhere, starting with big cities, like Google Maps street view and 3D view? Then you can make video games and interactive experiences in real-world locations. I doubt the collision handling is there, but you can at least start with something like Microsoft Flight Simulator with low-flying drones. It would also be great for training AI to generat…
the collision handling part is actually not that hard to back into from the splat data. i think HQ splats of everywhere is something we'll start seeing in the next decade! we haven't quite solved scaling issues, LoD, and streaming for splats but the early work is promising
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#99That looks rad.
One bit of feedback: don't move the camera if someone clicks one of the circles, that is super disorienting. There is also a bug that if a drag to move the camera happens to end on a circle, the popup opens.
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#100It doesn't seem to load on Android Chrome or Firefox. Maybe a hug of death?