SceneScript, a novel approach for 3D scene reconstruction
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Re: SceneScript, a novel approach for 3D scene reconstruction
#2I would love to have this as a Blender add-on.
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#3I'm sure the tech is neat. But I get a real sinking feeling from how hard tech giants like "Meta" are trying openly to create dystopia. The "Metaverse" is not aspirational!
> That understanding would let AR glasses tailor content to you and your individual context, like seamlessly blending a digital overlay with your physical space
Horrifying, if it ever takes off in the way that "Meta" wants it to. Take the modern smartphone disease and amplify it a few orders of magnitude.
> While LLMs rely on vast amounts of training data that typically comes from a range of publicly available text sources on the web, no such repository of information yet exists for physical spaces at the scale needed for training an end-to-end model.
Considering the tremendous scale in question, the "yet" is also terrifying. The only way to collect such a dataset would be if some large fraction of people were wearing always-on, network connected cameras. Meta clearly sees this future and wants it; the kind of future where everyone wears a Meta headset, all the time, and has their experience of reality mediated through it - optimized to maximize shareholder value of course, under the watchful eye of The Algorithm. A panopticon AI shoggoth.
Meta is an AI paperclip maximizer, and it is getting uncomfortably close to the "RELEASE THE HYPNODRONES" stage.
Re: SceneScript, a novel approach for 3D scene reconstruction
#4I'm sure the tech is neat. But I get a real sinking feeling from how hard tech giants like "Meta" are trying openly to create dystopia. The "Metaverse" is not aspirational! > That understanding would let AR glasses tailor content to you and your individual context, like seamlessly blending a digital overlay with your physical space Horrifying, if it ever takes off in the way that "Meta" wants it to. Take the modern s…
> A panopticon AI shoggoth
That made my day. I do agree, it is creepy but its what theyre pushing.
Re: SceneScript, a novel approach for 3D scene reconstruction
#5No code. Only for internal research.
Re: SceneScript, a novel approach for 3D scene reconstruction
#6I'm sure the tech is neat. But I get a real sinking feeling from how hard tech giants like "Meta" are trying openly to create dystopia. The "Metaverse" is not aspirational! > That understanding would let AR glasses tailor content to you and your individual context, like seamlessly blending a digital overlay with your physical space Horrifying, if it ever takes off in the way that "Meta" wants it to. Take the modern s…
Re: that "yet". I noticed that after a recent update on my Quest the OS gave me a pop-up about a new feature, that when enabled would allow the device to remember my play boundaries and restore them automatically rather than requiring they be re-entered every time the system gets confused about where I am. I was a little confused why it didn't just turn that on by default, it seemed like a straight upgrade to the current handling and shouldn't require anything but a bit of local storage. Scrolling down in the pop-up I was informed that enabling the feature would authorize Facebook to scan my surroundings and upload a complete map of them to use for whatever purposes they desired. I guess they legally need consent for that, and tying a feature improvement to data collection is still totally allowed somehow. So I imagine that they are building that real-world dataset presently.
Re: SceneScript, a novel approach for 3D scene reconstruction
#7I'm sure the tech is neat. But I get a real sinking feeling from how hard tech giants like "Meta" are trying openly to create dystopia. The "Metaverse" is not aspirational! > That understanding would let AR glasses tailor content to you and your individual context, like seamlessly blending a digital overlay with your physical space Horrifying, if it ever takes off in the way that "Meta" wants it to. Take the modern s…
> The only way to collect such a dataset would be
You must have missed the part where they created a synthetic dataset of 100000 environments, trained the network on that, and released it to the public?
Not saying I’m not worried about their plans too, but that is clearly addressed in the text.
Re: SceneScript, a novel approach for 3D scene reconstruction
#8No code. Only for internal research.
Obviously, this is likely to be part of a future Quest software update. They did release the training dataset though.
Re: SceneScript, a novel approach for 3D scene reconstruction
#9I'm sure the tech is neat. But I get a real sinking feeling from how hard tech giants like "Meta" are trying openly to create dystopia. The "Metaverse" is not aspirational! > That understanding would let AR glasses tailor content to you and your individual context, like seamlessly blending a digital overlay with your physical space Horrifying, if it ever takes off in the way that "Meta" wants it to. Take the modern s…
They still have to solve for:
* How uncomfortable the headsets are to wear for long periods if time
* How useless they are (what are they solution for?)
* How ridiculous they look
* How expensive they are
* How expensive it is to produce content for
After they solve these issues then I will worry about the dystopia we are in. VR headsets may look cool and futuristic in the movies but in reality they are just screens you wear on your head and that's it.
Re: SceneScript, a novel approach for 3D scene reconstruction
#10I'm sure the tech is neat. But I get a real sinking feeling from how hard tech giants like "Meta" are trying openly to create dystopia. The "Metaverse" is not aspirational! > That understanding would let AR glasses tailor content to you and your individual context, like seamlessly blending a digital overlay with your physical space Horrifying, if it ever takes off in the way that "Meta" wants it to. Take the modern s…
They still have to solve for: * How uncomfortable the headsets are to wear for long periods if time * How useless they are (what are they solution for?) * How ridiculous they look * How expensive they are * How expensive it is to produce content for After they solve these issues then I will worry about the dystopia we are in. VR headsets may look cool and futuristic in the movies but in reality they are just screens…
All of these (except maybe the "useless" part) are almost always solved by time (Moore's law)