Azad Balabanian ᯅ
@Azadux
AR/VR nerd - Product @nianticspatial, formerly @puzzlingplaces, @uploadvr. Big into stereography / drones / photogrammetry / radiance fields. Perpetual typos
2.5 years after my trip to Turkey, I'm finally starting to publish the scans I did of the ruins of Ani Links to the @Sketchfab models below (downloadable!)👇
I’ve also for the longest time been interested in the medieval Armenian city of Ani (in the district of Kars, Turkey) which has been in ruins since the 1600’s It’s in an incredible landscape with extraordinary examples of Armenian Bagratuni architecture which are at massive risk
i really wish nerfstudio had a simple UI for training remembering/looking up args and pre-writing commands in text docs is just not user friendly
Pleasure meeting you IRL @RadianceFields in sunny, summer San Francisco!
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Cursor quietly changing its rate limits basically solidified my fears of the following: If you’re building a business solely with AI code development, you’re entirely beholden to the whims of the model/AI IDE providers Suddenly your cheap, fixed monthly AI development costs…
if youre not consulting topographic maps to plan commute routes with the least amount of elevation gain... do you even live in SF?
I should put together an article about RAW image processing and the benefits you gain for tricky photogrammetry/3DGS datasets
Here's a more concrete example from our research: 1st photo: 1st iteration w/ shadows and highlights reduced 2nd photo: shadows + highlights + microcontrast increased Shot with a7rii + 15mm Voigtlander + tripod. very sharp images
I tried live translation on my meta ray bans I think this feature is positioned and marketed incorrectly. Here’s why. Live glasses translation is BAD for conversations (ie you’re at a check in desk at a foreign hotel). It’s a one way translation where only YOU can understand…
Meta Celeste(Hypernova) images.
Calling it “vibe coding” to develop a proper app with an agent AI totally undersells the amount of work you need to put into it It requires precise planning, understanding of the underlying systems and algorithms, and many hours of real-time collaboration But it’s absolutely…
“This next Vision Pro is reportedly upgrading the chip from M2 to M5, but will otherwise retain the original specs” 😞
Apple Reportedly Has Numerous XR Headsets & Glasses Coming Between Now & 2028 See more 👉roadtovr.com/apple-report-x…
AI slop hitting ads from major companies. Oof
The perfect beach day just got even more perfect.
Between @kscalelabs for robotics and @comma_ai for self driving cars, the future of this kind of tech is very much in our hands There’s something very appealing about that
Their philosophy is brutal and simple: Open-source everything. Let devs build the apps. Push updates weekly. Ship real hardware. Get robots in the wild. Learn faster than the incumbents. They're not trying to be Tesla. They're trying to be Linux for embodied AI.
Kojima’s only way of storytelling is to tell, not show Everything is written, spelled out, and repeated to you multiple times In this example about Fragile smoking, instead of subtly hinting that she’s doing so because she’s stressed/sad about a plot element, you have a…
Hideo Kojima shared the story of how he sometimes changes a character to match the personality of the person who is playing the role. He gave the example of Fragile, played by Léa Seydoux. Fragile doesn't smoke in the first game, but when he saw another movie she was in, he…
People don’t wanna hear this but Kojima is good at world building but pretty bad at crafting and telling stories
Hideo Kojima shared the story of how he sometimes changes a character to match the personality of the person who is playing the role. He gave the example of Fragile, played by Léa Seydoux. Fragile doesn't smoke in the first game, but when he saw another movie she was in, he…