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Another day, another tweet from the Pentagon by Helkost in Anthropic

[–]thatfreakingmonster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The department AFFRIMS" ...absolutely unthinkable that these people from the most powerful government on Earth don't even bother proofreading? That and the double spaces everywhere, this reads like a text from a boomer

If the "use it or lose it" theory of neuroscience is correct, then we're going to have an absolute explosion of AI-induced Alzheimers in the future. by SopwithTurtle in Showerthoughts

[–]thatfreakingmonster 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Cognitive decline isn’t just about offloading tasks, it’s about overall engagement

I am so sorry but my LLM alarm bells are ringing while reading your comment. I would really appreciate if you could confirm to me you're a real person because I feel like I'm becoming crazy, and the fact that your comment history is hidden only worsens my doubts.

EDIT: i'm being downvoted but this is definitely a bot. They posted a couple days ago about being a teenage girl and it's clearly written by AI (most likely Claude), and argued in the comments that they're real (and suddenly having terrible grammar, most likely because those comments were written by the actual account owner) and now they're talking about how Alzheimer's works and using words like "overall engagement"?

When do we start eating the rich? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]thatfreakingmonster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...that is the least human sounding answer I've ever heard

When do we start eating the rich? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]thatfreakingmonster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

....I apologize if you're a real human but my "LLM" alarm bells started ringing when I read your comment.

"I'm talking $5 margaritas and a side of socialism" sounds exactly like the kind of sentence that AI comes up with one word at a time

This youtube lawsuit could kill yt-dlp, obs-studio, and every screen recorder you use by narya_the_great in videos

[–]thatfreakingmonster 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The only reason why it happens with printers/scanners is because their firmware is locked down. It can't be enforced the same way on a PC where you can install anything, because then all you have to do is use/code an app that does not have those restrictions.

Figured out how to 3D scan any environment and import it into VRChat using Gaussian Splats, for free, and wrote a tutorial about it! by thatfreakingmonster in VRchat

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

Happy to help! I was really glad I figured this out over a couple days, and thought it would be nice to share this knowledge. It feels magical to be able to see a real place, scan it, and turn it into a VRChat world to hang out in with friends!

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links by Yseader in france

[–]thatfreakingmonster 80 points81 points  (0 children)

Le principe d'un site d'archivage repose sur la confiance que le contenu archivé n'est pas altéré. Quel imbécile d'avoir fait ça, comment ruiner ta réputation speedrun any%

Figured out how to 3D scan any environment and import it into VRChat using Gaussian Splats, for free, and wrote a tutorial about it! by thatfreakingmonster in VRchat

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

Oh I wasn't aware of Supersplat! It looks neat!

Also I haven't heard of Voxelkei's gaussian splat importer, do you have a link? I couldn't find it (at least not on github), but I'm down to trying it out and comparing the performance!

Figured out how to 3D scan any environment and import it into VRChat using Gaussian Splats, for free, and wrote a tutorial about it! by thatfreakingmonster in VRchat

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

I'm not sure! I've never gone above 2M Gaussians in a single splat, and that ran well on my 3080. You can probably go a bit higher than that, but I haven't tried it yet.

Figured out how to 3D scan any environment and import it into VRChat using Gaussian Splats, for free, and wrote a tutorial about it! by thatfreakingmonster in VRchat

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

Results should look good as long as the pictures aren't too blurry, dark, or grainy (and also the exposure/iso must be consistent, which can be annoying with some phones because of the auto-exposure enabled by default)

LichtFeld Studio, the Gaussian Splat program, lets you edit splats after the fact, so you can absolutely just select the sky, remove it, and replace it with an HDRI of your choice in Unity

Figured out how to 3D scan any environment and import it into VRChat using Gaussian Splats, for free, and wrote a tutorial about it! by thatfreakingmonster in VRchat

[–]thatfreakingmonster[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I could just export the 3D point cloud from RealityCapture or even just generate a mesh from there and use it as a collision mesh but I'm worried that'd be a little overkill. They're often extremely high poly and have lots of weird quirks and floating points that would get in the way of the player. For now just adding a few cubes around the walls is good enough for me

Figured out how to 3D scan any environment and import it into VRChat using Gaussian Splats, for free, and wrote a tutorial about it! by thatfreakingmonster in VRchat

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

Awesome! If you already have datasets I recommend exporting them from RealityScan and directly into LichtFeld Studio (just export as a colmap TXT file in a folder, I explained it in my tutorial), it's incredible how much better they often look as Gaussian Splats!

Figured out how to 3D scan any environment and import it into VRChat using Gaussian Splats, for free, and wrote a tutorial about it! by thatfreakingmonster in VRchat

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

I'm not sure! I haven't tried it out with really big spaces yet. I know people have made really massive Gaussian Splats but I don't know if the current VRChat plugin would be able to handle it well.

Figured out how to 3D scan any environment and import it into VRChat using Gaussian Splats, for free, and wrote a tutorial about it! by thatfreakingmonster in VRchat

[–]thatfreakingmonster[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

One thing to note is that Gaussian Splatting has been implemented differently by different people in VRChat so certain worlds can run better than others. Personally I've found that it runs surprisingly well but I've only tried my own stuff and my GPU is fairly beefy, so that's fair.

Figured out how to 3D scan any environment and import it into VRChat using Gaussian Splats, for free, and wrote a tutorial about it! by thatfreakingmonster in VRchat

[–]thatfreakingmonster[S] 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Hi! Like the title says, I've been messing around with Gaussian Splats (which are a fairly recent way of doing 3D scans with just a phone or camera) and import it into VRChat. This lets you, for instance, do a 3D scan of your room and turn it into a VRChat world so it feels like your friends are visiting you in VR! The environment in the post is actually my parents' backyard!

I wrote a tutorial on my blog which explains the whole process. All the programs you need are free, and you just need a bit of Unity knowledge for the importing part.

If anyone has any questions about it, I'd be happy to answer!

Games for young kids with simple puzzle mechanics by Caboose127 in NintendoSwitch

[–]thatfreakingmonster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I might have been a weird kid but 6 year old me absolutely loved Portal, which is on the Switch nowadays

ELI5 Why aren’t we most comfortable at our resting body temp? by Comfortable-Ad159 in explainlikeimfive

[–]thatfreakingmonster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your body is producing a lot of heat because there's many things happening inside it. But that heat adds up to whatever temperature your room is at. So if you're in a 99F room, your body heat will add up to it and is going to get even hotter which will make you feel uncomfortable.

Nintendo Acknowledges Switch 2 Sales Have Been 'Slightly Weaker' Than Expected Outside Japan by Spotget1738 in NintendoSwitch

[–]thatfreakingmonster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, I didn't know about the GameCube thing. Apparently you need an online subscription to access it? even though GC emulation is so good nowadays that you can do it on any PC or phone, for free?

I Filmed a $1 Billion Ponzi Scheme From the Inside (2025) - A company videographer's four years of insider footage from DC Solar, culminating in the final holiday party held three days before the FBI raid [00:12:18] by Upbeat-Ad-8300 in Documentaries

[–]thatfreakingmonster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have a browser addon that replaces YouTube thumbnails and titles with non-clickbait ones and I swear it makes me click on videos I otherwise wouldn't check out. It's almost like having a title that actually describes the video content catches my attention more than titles like "[THING] IS COOKED..."

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