I've been plyaing around with the keyframes system in #GaiaSky and the OptFlowCam export method. After some bug-fixing, it produces very good results. It works best in a "points of interest" workflow. The following video is exported from only 25 keyframes.
27.02.2026 09:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Full resolution: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF_P...
17.02.2026 08:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yet another video of the asteroid belt using Gaia DR3 data with the new shading.
#GaiaSky #Gaia #GaiaDR3 #Space #Asteroids #AsteroidBelt #Astronomy
Do you have red-cyan anaglyph glasses? Try this video below for an amazing 3D effect on the asteroids in Gaia DR3.
16.02.2026 13:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Asteroids, other SSOs, and particle sets in general will get a much needed improvement in visual fidelity in #GaiaSky 3.7.2. We can now shade them (kind of) realistically while maintaining the high frame rate. In the video, we show the ~150.000 asteroids in Gaia DR3.
16.02.2026 13:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What will Earth look like when Artemis II goes to the Moon? Which "phase"?
Monday night at 8:00 PM ET, I'm doing a live stream showing you a cool free app called Gaia Sky. I'll show you the possible ways the Earth and the Moon will appear.
@gaiasky.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SgB...
Full-resolution video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yibF...
Testing #GaiaSky VR with the Valve Index and an RTX 5080 (laptop). Performance is very, very good!
11.02.2026 13:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Gaia Sky showing Simplified Chinese object names
Working with a contributor on the Simplified Chinese translation of #GaiaSky. This requires some re-engineering in the UI system, but we're getting there.
10.02.2026 11:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks! Will try.
07.02.2026 05:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0True, it's not very useful. The laptop has a butter smooth 240Hz display, so vsync caps the frame rate at that value. Disabling vsync is only useful to see the real capabilities of the hardware, to waste energy, and to get the laptop hot and the fans spinning like crazy.
06.02.2026 14:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Gaia Sky running on an RTX laptop, showing 743 FPS.
I just got a new laptop for our VR demonstrations with an RTX 5080 16GB. With base #GaiaSky and default datasets, it's getting over 700 FPS. Let's see how it does with VR😅
06.02.2026 12:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Gaia Sky 3.7.1 release
#GaiaSky 3.7.1 is now available! 📢📢📢
This release comes with many new features and bug fixes. Check it out 👇
gaiasky.space/news/2026/ga...
New Gaia Sky documentation theme
📖 We have updated the #GaiaSky documentation with a new theme and we've done a little bit of restructuring. It should flow better and look cleaner now. Give it a try!
gaiasky.space
I'll create a news post about this in the Gaia Sky webpage, so that anyone who wants to try it has a clear guide as to how to proceed. And also for me to remember in the future, as I will most probably forget. 😅
30.01.2026 14:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I got it fully working, and performance is stellar:
30.01.2026 13:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Monado is difficult to set up and very picky with the environment, but when it works it is BUTTERY SMOOTH. Performance is much better than with SteamVR. Why?? There is an issue with the color format that makes the image brighter than it should be though. Adjusting the gamma mostly fixes it.
30.01.2026 13:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I'm gonna try monado now and see how it performs with this runtime compared to SteamVR. If it works.
30.01.2026 11:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ok, I actually went into the VR code and could fix some red flags in the swapchain handling. This resulted in a much faster presentation, and #GaiaSkyVR on Linux is now quite usable. There's some stuttering when turning the head, I'll try to fix that next.
30.01.2026 09:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Works, but the experience is borderline unusable. My GPU is also clearly underpowered for the Index. The fact that it's Pascal-based may also play a role, as Pascal and earlier architectures are notably bad on Linux, and Nvidia dropped support not long ago.
#VR #LinuxVR #GaiaSkyVR
Did Valve remove the old VR mini-window showing the device connection status?
30.01.2026 07:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hyprland implements DRM leasing, so it should work. In fact, disconnecting and reconnecting and now we're game!
30.01.2026 07:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Disconnected and reconnected the USB and DP of the Index, and now it works. 🤷♂️
30.01.2026 07:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Dang, SteamVR just crashes silently on Hyprland/Wayland... Should I try x11?
30.01.2026 07:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
The Valve Index in its box ready to test.
Today is testing day, so it's time to dust off the Valve Index and see how much VR on Linux has improved since the last time I tried (it was underwhelming). With the Steam Frame on the horizon, I'm kind of excited to see the progress.
#GaiaSky #GaiaSkyVR #VR #valvesoftware #ValveIndex
#GaiaSky will get an interactive UI accent color in the next version, dropping the static UI themes system. 👀
29.01.2026 11:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The provisional release notes for Gaia Sky 3.7.1 (to be released very soon) are kind of massive:
gist.github.com/langurmonkey...
#GaiaSky #releasenotes
An SVG drawing of the Gaia spacecraft with a connection cable, symolizing the online status.
🚀 Gaia Sky server is BACK!
After a few months of downtime, our main server is once again accessible from the outside. You can now access installers, datasets, and documentation.
Thank you for your patience during the downtime.
More info: gaiasky.space/news/2026/se...
#GaiaSky #Astronomy #SciComm
🚀 To all Gaia Sky users: Having trouble accessing the servers? Here's a workaround to get Gaia Sky running with the base data package during the current downtime.
Check out the full guide: gaiasky.space/news/2025/wo...
#GaiaSky #ServerDowntime #Astronomy #SpaceVisualization #TechTips
