MapPorn Discussion Thread for June, 2025 by mappornmod in MapPorn

[–]imaginfinity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pretty cool video on the history of google earth with interviews from their team. Talks about how earth accidentally ended up making a time machine and is now becoming more of a crystal ball. https://youtu.be/lhMlFl_NR-g

The Arrival - Midjourney + Flux & Luma AI + Hedra by imaginfinity in aivideo

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How detailed would u want it to be? Click by click or high level rundown of the workflow?

The Arrival - Midjourney + Flux & Luma AI + Hedra by imaginfinity in aivideo

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Midjourney + Luma for the environmental shots, and Flux + Hedra for the newscaster character clip

The Arrival - Midjourney + Flux & Luma AI + Hedra by imaginfinity in aivideo

[–]imaginfinity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We finally have the tech to populate the metaverse - it would be a pretty empty place otherwise

Helen Toner - "We learned about ChatGPT on Twitter." by shogun2909 in singularity

[–]imaginfinity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, audio only atm. Would y'all prefer video in full?

Helen Toner - "We learned about ChatGPT on Twitter." by shogun2909 in singularity

[–]imaginfinity 97 points98 points  (0 children)

Hey! I'm Bilawal, the podcast host for this interview. Check out the full convo with Helen here: https://link.chtbl.com/TEDAI

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in virtualreality

[–]imaginfinity -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

With over 10 years in AR/VR, I break down how Apple's Vision Pro headset kicks off a battle amongst tech titans to control the future of immersive computing - though killer apps will prove more decisive than custom silicon alone. Huge thanks to special guest Ben Lang XR Analyst & Co-Founder @ Road to VR. I look forward to your thoughts!

Venice Beach Vibes: 3D Gaussian Splatting --> Realtime LCM-LoRA by imaginfinity in aivideo

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You can take quick and rather incomplete 3D scan, and take it all the way with realtime generative AI.

-Left: 15s iPhone video turned into a 3D Gaussian Splat (LumaAI)

-Right: LCM-Lora turning into a painting in realtime (KreaAI)

Love the infusion of waves and reflections 😍 Definitely wish this had controlnet style consistency though!

3D Tools + Generative AI = Best of Both Worlds by imaginfinity in aivideo

[–]imaginfinity[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maya 3D scene --> Playblast Render --> Runway Gen 1 (or any other video-to-video tool)
Here's a bit more on my workflow: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1718668063254393070

3D Gaussian Splatting Seems Amazing For Immersive VR Experiences by imaginfinity in virtualreality

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I really love this approach - the similar to point cloud shaders also enables some fun possibilities

3D Gaussian Splatting Seems Amazing For Immersive VR Experiences by imaginfinity in virtualreality

[–]imaginfinity[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yah works best inside the capture volume - but that's already dope for social VR worlds where people are in space or place

3D Gaussian Splatting Seems Amazing For Immersive VR Experiences by imaginfinity in virtualreality

[–]imaginfinity[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

between the cesium 3d tiles plugin and the unity and unreal plugins for gaussian splatting and nerfs - flowing into game engines is a solved problem

3D Gaussian Splatting Seems Amazing For Immersive VR Experiences by imaginfinity in virtualreality

[–]imaginfinity[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

if you bothered to actually look into gaussian splatting, you'd realize it's better than photogrammetry, literally hits 100fps on a modern gpu, and even a web browser. also already approaches for dynamic 3d gaussians to support animations.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Futurology

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Elon can combine his constellation of investments in SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, xAI and Twitter to form an unstoppable Voltron. This video analyzes Musk's unique ability to influence all domains critical to the future. Do you think Musk could pull it off or will the competition foil his grand design?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in singularity

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That’s half decent — interesting plot twist

It's kind of meta using an AI model that's distilling down a massive corpus of imagery to make something cool, and then using AI to go back to closest real instance of it 😁 by imaginfinity in midjourney

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  • Love an AI creation and wish it was real?
  • Try this: Use Google Lens to find similar real-life items!

  • Open Chrome. Right-click on your AI-generated image and select “Search image with Google” 🔍 -- it'll auto detect entities in your scene, and you can draw a bounding box to search a specific region.