This tool to animate #GaussianSplatting is ONLY one of the 10 cool things I found last week. The rest is here 👉 xraispotlight.substack.com/p/rig-and-sk...

Hideo Kojima's next game will be in Augmented Reality and powered by Niantic's geolocalization system.

On which device do you think it's going to be?

After the announcement of the Meta Horizon Engine, I had to update my list of apps to experience #GaussianSplatting in #VR.

You can get the list by subscribing to my newsletter (link on top of my profile) and it is packed with apps, tools and tech demos to view 3DGS also on a #MetaQuest.

This is @meshcapade.com  and I had the chance to interview the founder, Naureen Mahmood right here 👉 https://open.substack.com/pub/xraispotlight/p/this-ai-tool-is-the-perfect-companion

The level of polish and the number of functionalities in this #mixedreality app for #Quest caught me off guard. It takes courage to invest in such a niche experience and pour so much love into it. 

It's called Nailit!, it's free, and you should 100% try it.

FastVLM from Apple enables real-time captioning, so I decided to "hook it up" to my #MetaQuest and test it in #Virtualreality and #Mixedreality.

Full set-up in the thread 🧵

VR Chat adds support for Gaussian Splatting, but there are several better options I have collected in this list 👇

This tool lets you compare the output of various models to generate 3DGS.
Link in the thread

I finally had the chance to play around with Hunyuan3D 2.1 and the image-to-3D is very accurate. The meshes are still in polygons and when it comes to textures there are better models out there in my opinion.

What is, at the moment, your favourite 3D model/tool out there?

Did you know that Horizon World also supports #MixedReality ?!?!

This might be the easiest way to deploy a bitesize MR social experience that does not take full advantage of the scene understanding BUT solely relies on gameplay around a table or centred anchor for all players.

The new avatars on Apple #VisionPro are undoubtedly the biggest addition.

Co-presence is one of the aspects no one has nailed yet, and this is the biggest leap in that direction.

Here is how you can play Tetris with your eyes using the neural interface created by Wisear that fits in your…. ears 👂

I have interviewed the founder and he shared a release date and price point that genuinely shocked me 👉 https://xraispotlight.substack.com/p/this-neural-interface-fits-in-your

This ball tracking demo, built by Christoph Spinger, takes advantage of the Quest camera API and is so far the most impressive implementation I have seen.

Tracking moving objects is extremely challenging and despite the 20ms delay, I can totally see some new use cases and gameplay emerging.

Did you know Google #veo3 can also generate gameplay video?
What could be the implications?

👍 Game developers will be able to create animatics at lightning speed.

👎 We will see gameplay commentaries of games that don't exist

🤔 The days of fully AI-generated games feel very close

AirVis is the latest addition to my list of apps that allow you to experience #GaussianSplatting on Apple #VisionPro.

The list now includes 14 tools that offer a wide variety of functionalities.

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