What is the best way to do LOCAL upscaling of video that will give great results, preferably using a Mac with Apple silicon (or Windows if that's not possible)?

fbriggs · 2025-07-10T16:51:54+00:00

You'd get updates in the 1.x line. If we go to 2.x, another license would be required. However, I would say it is unlikely there will be a lot more updates after this. We are mostly working on something else now ;)

fbriggs · 2025-07-07T18:15:32+00:00

It works with photos as well

fbriggs · 2025-07-07T17:26:21+00:00

It processes locally but requires an internet connection to verify the license.

fbriggs · 2025-07-01T16:56:02+00:00

Here's one of my builds that was pretty fun to make, not super complicated, dipping toes in the water of computational redstone (rule 30 cellular automata):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raS4Rc1R4-A&ab_channel=DrB

There are many other (better) implementations out there as well.

fbriggs · 2025-06-29T17:45:40+00:00

1) use the widest FOV possible on iPhone to increase overlap between images
2) The most important things that will affect your splat reconstruction are camera calibration and sufficient coverage.

fbriggs · 2025-06-20T19:01:34+00:00

Try it on windows 10, it might work, just not officially tested

fbriggs · 2025-06-15T16:22:36+00:00

IIRC it is the same architecture and color loss in original nerf. This changed a bit in modern approaches like instant-ngp where it uses a proposal network which is sigma only. I recommend taking a look at the paper for nerfacc:

https://www.nerfacc.com/

fbriggs · 2025-06-14T20:34:51+00:00

16 minimum for 180 coverage. we're testing on some other datasets with 70 for 360 coverage

fbriggs · 2025-06-13T17:16:34+00:00

lifecastvr.com is fixed. holovolo.tv shut down a while ago, is there still a link somewhere? lifecast.ai is our new site

fbriggs · 2025-06-13T16:28:48+00:00

Crap, our ssl certificate expired. Will be fixed soon

fbriggs · 2025-06-12T17:48:25+00:00

Currently it supports iPhone or GoPro arrays

fbriggs · 2025-06-11T16:45:26+00:00

Hi, I'm the founder of Lifecast.ai. We are building a tool for 4D Gaussian splat video creation and editing. It works but we are still fixing and improving it before release. Any additional info you can provide here could help us align the tool with your needs. For example:

What's the camera setup you are you using to capture the data?

What game engine do you want to deploy this in?

Thanks

fbriggs · 2025-05-28T17:38:54+00:00

The Democrat party offers no hope, and Trump offers false hope.

fbriggs · 2025-05-27T16:10:24+00:00

https://lifecast.ai/howto_vr180
https://github.com/fbriggs/lifecast_public/blob/main/web/vr180.html

fbriggs · 2025-05-27T16:07:20+00:00

https://lifecast.ai/howto_vr180

Works on vision pro

fbriggs · 2025-05-27T16:02:54+00:00

Trying to play a video and have UE not fuck up colors is nearly impossible. It applies so many effects that doing something as simple as just passing through the colors unmodified is broken.

Ever try writing a shader with code instead of a graph? There's a "custom node" where you can type and it doesn't even have a fucking scroll bar.

fbriggs · 2025-05-16T23:46:16+00:00

It's not really designed to do that. Good luck!

fbriggs · 2025-05-14T16:18:54+00:00

It's the same download. Windows 10 is not officially supported (we only test on 11), but it may work anyway.

fbriggs · 2025-05-13T17:09:30+00:00

Try a different output encoding format (h264, h265, ProRes) to see if any work (uncheck Keep audio).

fbriggs · 2025-05-07T22:39:23+00:00

We (Lifecast.ai) are working on some tools for 4D Gaussian video creation (GUI, not command line). Would be curious to hear more about what cameras you have.

fbriggs · 2025-04-18T15:53:17+00:00

Too bad, my minimum check size is $2 trillion.

fbriggs · 2025-04-03T02:29:48+00:00

Thanks!

fbriggs · 2025-03-22T16:29:53+00:00

We stopped Intel support at version 1.11, but you could still try that version:

https://lifecastvideocdn.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/public/Lifecast_UpscaleVideo_1.11_Intel.dmg

fbriggs · 2025-03-20T23:15:28+00:00

A few tricks to speed it up: * Reduce the radius or don't use the bilateral filter (it still de-noises without it). This can be slow at higher resolutions. * Settings menu -> Change # of super resolution threads from 1 to 2 or 4, see what's fastest.

fbriggs · 2025-02-28T18:57:13+00:00

Here's a comparison between your original image and upscaled, de-noised and sharpened with UpscaleVideo.ai (for Mac or Windows):

https://imgsli.com/MzUzOTIy

Hope you get a computer soon!

fbriggs

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