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by fbriggs 2y ago
I am testing it now. My $0.02- it is not worth $200 or even $0 at this point. It is too slow, not very competent at basic tasks. Rip off.
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by fbriggs 2y ago
paywall
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by fbriggs 2y ago
Here's my paper on recursive program synthesis using combinator expressions from 2006: https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Combinators-ASPGP.pdf
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Lifecast.ai [YCW22] Open-Source NeRF Video on WebXR/Vision Pro/Quest(lifecast.ai)
4 points by fbriggs 2y ago|1 comments
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by fbriggs 2y ago
* We made an open source C++ NeRF volumetric video engine for VR. * It trains a NeRF for each frame of video, then compresses it to our format 'ldi3', which enables real-time playback on Quest or Vision Pro in WebXR, Unity or Unre
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by fbriggs 3y ago
pay wall
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by fbriggs 3y ago
Yup
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Volurama by Lifecast (YC W22) – Easy to Use NeRF for Windows and Mac(volurama.com)
3 points by fbriggs 3y ago|3 comments
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by fbriggs 3y ago
* This is a commercial product. It is free to try, but requires a license to render the final results as a video output. * It can output 2D videos where a virtual camera flys along a smooth path, or VR180 and Looking Glass portrait hologram
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Lifecast (YCW22) - Volumetric video with layered depth images and AI-art(fbriggs.medium.com)
3 points by fbriggs 3y ago|0 comments
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by fbriggs 4y ago
"A CYBERPUNK NINJA RIDING AN OSTRICH THROUGH THE STREET OF TOKYO" https://holovolo.tv/v/962583 Today Lifecast unveils text-to-full 3D immersive environments that can be viewed in VR (e.g., Quest 2) or on 2D s
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Stable Diffusion to 3D/WebVR, in the cloud, available now(holovolo.tv)
57 points by fbriggs 4y ago|22 comments
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by fbriggs 5y ago
Artifacts at the edges are due to occlusions. An occlusion is a part of the scene which wasn't visible to the original camera. You see these if you move far from the original camera in VR to look behind something. This is a really hard
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by fbriggs 5y ago
You would need to use a SteamVR-compatble VR web browser (maybe Firefox VR). Then simply visit one our demo pages in the VR browser. For example: https://lifecastvr.com/hubner4.html https://lifecastvr.com/da
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by fbriggs 5y ago
Not yet. We are working on it.
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by fbriggs 5y ago
I have seen a few similar approaches. Basically, have several views with corresponding depth map, then render all of them and blend. As with MPI, the problem is the Quest 2 doesn't have enough GPU power to do the blending (in my tests
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by fbriggs 5y ago
I have tested the player on Chrome/Firefox/Safari on Mac and Chrome on Ubuntu 21. It should be working. LMK if you are encountering an issue. The tool to create the videos right now is only available on Mac and Windows. We have an
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by fbriggs 5y ago
I worked on a lightfield(ish) camera at Facebook, but Lifecast is more focussed on what is practical with current camera hardware. We prefer to make the best possible 6DOF using existing VR180 cameras which people already have. A second cha
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by fbriggs 5y ago
Very impressive results, nice work!
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Launch HN: Lifecast (YC W22) – 3D video for VR
87 points by fbriggs 5y ago|36 comments