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This tool to animate #GaussianSplatting is ONLY one of the 10 cool things I found last week. The rest is here π xraispotlight.substack.com/p/rig-and-sk...
15.11.2025 16:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hideo 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.
Did you miss the interview with Sam Cole, the founder of FitXR ?
Check it out here π https://youtu.be/F42TINCu3l0
We discuss his #XR journey, the role #AI is playing in fitness and how he sees the 2 colliding.
This is @meshcapade.comΒ and I had the chance to interview the founder, Naureen Mahmood right here π https://open.substack.com/pub/xraispotlight/p/this-ai-tool-is-the-perfect-companion
11.09.2025 15:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The 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.Β
It's called Nailit!, it's free, and you should 100% try it.
And here goes the weekend π
I just received the Portal Cam from XGRIDS.
Time for a quick setup and some test runs before doing an in-depth coverage.
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Launch FastVLM (huggingface.co/spaces/apple...) freely available on Hugging Face and set the OBS virtual camera as input
02.09.2025 14:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Start OBS and set up a virtual camera that will capture the casting window. Here is a tutorial on how to do it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj-Z...
To set it up, cast the Meta Quest view on the web or using the Meta Quest Developer Hub (for a wider field of view using the cinematic mode):
horizon.meta.com/casting/
FastVLM, is a Vision language model 85x faster and 3.4x smaller than anything before. It can understand both visual and text, it runs in real time, has the potential to be run on device.
machinelearning.apple.com/research/fas...
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 π§΅
Did you miss last week's conversation with Xiaobi Iris Pan, Lead XR AI Designer at Amazon?
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Every week I go through the coolest stuff you can learn from and test first hand. Here is the list π substack.com/home/post/p-...
19.08.2025 04:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Do you want to learn more about Gaussian Splatting?
This is a great resource. Olli Huttunen is an authority in the space and he shares the best tools and practices to create and optimise 3DGS as well as facts that will change the way you look at splats
xraispotlight.substack.com/p/tools-work...
In this in-depth interview, we take a look behind the scenes of capturing 4D #GaussianSplatting and what it takes to experience corporate training, UFC fights, Runway shows, and more in #VR π youtu.be/nSi54OHaJNU
#3DGS #volumetricvideo
I wrote a 19-page document with a comprehensive list of ALL WAYS in which you can get immersed in this type of photorealistic scenes on Quest or Vision Pro.
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VR Chat adds support for Gaussian Splatting, but there are several better options I have collected in this list π
05.08.2025 08:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
This is one of the updates, news and tech demos, hard to find anywhere else and included in my weekly roundup.
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The tech demo in the video does an incredible job at visualising the differences between various models. Check it out yourself here:
www.360images.fr/3dgs/postsho...
I briefly discussed the different models for generating Gaussian Splatting (SPLAT3, MCMC and ADC) in my video comparing various 3DGS apps:
youtu.be/CrlSey4RmVI?...
This tool lets you compare the output of various models to generate 3DGS.
Link in the thread
If you are even remotely interested in the future of Smart Glasses check out the latest issue of XR AI Spotlight π xraispotlight.substack.com/p/lessons-le...
(Even Evan Spiegel, the CEO of Snap, had good things to say about the article π)
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?
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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 yourβ¦. ears π
I have interviewed the founder and he shared a release date and price point that genuinely shocked me π https://xraispotlight.substack.com/p/this-neural-interface-fits-in-your
