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Apple Vision Proで体験する、映像ではなく「空間ASMR」。これが次世代の没入感と話題に🎧 視界の中に広がる粒子のような立体表現が、音や空気の存在まで想像させます。ただ見る・聞くだけでなく、空間そのものを体験する新しいASMRの形です。#vr #AR

I made a short video tutorial for CelRig where I explain setup and individual compositor nodes. In the future, I'll make videos with more complex breakdowns focusing on individual effects, but this should be enough to get started! It's up on the Gumroad page, link below.

Last week, I had the chance to interview Max van Leeuwen, the creator of this #augmentedreality lens, on @Spectacles . During the interview, we look at the current capabilities of Spectacles, his social media strategy and how he thinks this technology will evolve. Make sure to check out the full episode on YouTube on the XR AI Spotlight channel.

@nostalgicfile youtu.be/hv0V64xITe4?si…

@nostalgicfile Here's a photo I recently took of the original Matte Painting of Los Angeles in Blade Runner

How Blade Runner took practical effects to High Level

Animated #GaussianSplatting can now be streamed like a YouTube video. So far, you had to download large files BEFORE experiencing them anywhere, but @gracia_vr has just released several demos that stream like a normal video. The first thing I tried was to make a side-by-side comparison, but I could hardly notice any difference. As long as you have a solid internet connection, you can play them on the web, headset and even on mobile in #augmentedreality. Interested in the latest in #3D, #XR and #AI? This is the type of news and updates I share every week on my newsletter (link on top of my profile).

I made an interactive blog post about how JPEG image compression works: sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg

Video diffusion models are just overqualified depth estimators! Deterministic single-pass depth estimation based on WanV2.1. - SOTA 5.5 AbsRel on ScanNet - data-efficient than baselines; - no temporal flicker + infinite-length estimation w/ zero scale drift. dvd-project.github.io

@blauereiter Also was trying to find Lawrence Alma Tadema book I once had, would also put Rubens in there too

@blauereiter Rembrandt, John Singer Sargent for sure, Rockwell did so many great pieces, "My Adventures as an Illustrator" is a great read has some back history, also checkout Pino Daeni, came across his works in early 2000 pinoart.com

Friggin' Rockwell. How do you go about painting a soft glow ? It's not just an image filter in photoshop lol

Not long ago, we thought this might be impossible. But here we are: our Gaussian Splatting videos are now streamable, just like regular video. No download, no app. 4DGS plays instantly in the browser on headsets, phones and laptops, with no limits on splats or length. Give it a try: store.gracia.ai

@blauereiter Yes classic I still watch it to this day 😄

懐かしい~🥹

New Tool for Immersive Filmmakers, Spatial Video Creators, and XR Developers: I’ve spent years teaching immersive creators how to make 360, VR180 and spatial video actually work across platforms. One problem keeps coming up again and again: the final delivery workflow is way more painful than it should be. So I built something to help. Today I’m sharing Hugh Hou Spatial Injector, a native macOS app designed to make it easier to prepare immersive video for YouTube VR and Apple Vision Pro in one simple workflow. What it does: ✅ Inject Google Spatial Metadata for YouTube VR without recompressing your video, so your original exported quality stays intact ✅ Convert your footage into Apple Spatial Video (MV-HEVC) using Apple’s native hardware encoding pipeline ✅ Simple drag-and-drop workflow with no Terminal and no outdated patchwork tools ✅ Helps creators deliver the same immersive story to more viewers across platforms This tool is 100% free. No Ad, no in-app purchase BS, just free and open-source. Example VR180 processed with the tool: youtu.be/4pqzuKsbCNY 👇 Free Download link: patreon.com/posts/hugh-hou… I built this out of love for the immersive community and the belief that better tools help more creators bring powerful stories into 3D Spatial. If you know filmmakers or developers working in 360, VR180, Immersive 180, or Vision Pro, please share this post with them so more creators can benefit from the tool. Let’s keep pushing immersive storytelling forward together. #HughHou #AppleVisionPro #GoogleSpatialMetadataInjector #ImmersiveVideo #VR180

📢📢📢Dark3R (#CVPR2026) recovers camera poses and point clouds—and enables novel view synthesis—from images captured in ultra-low light (image SNR < −4 dB). Project Page: andrewguo.com/pub/dark3r Code/Dataset: github.com/andrewyguo/dar… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.05330

🚀 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝘼𝙣𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 2 is accepted to #CVPR2026! 🔥A stronger version of 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝘼𝙣𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 with finer details and enhanced robustness🔥 -🏡: pq-yang.github.io/projects/MatAn… -📜: arxiv.org/abs/2512.11782 -👩🏻‍💻: github.com/pq-yang/MatAny…

A combination of 2 addons that I plan to release soon. 1- Real time Camera tracking via iphone 2-Smart DSLR like autofocus for Blender Camera Stay tuned! #blender #cgi #b3d #3danimation #animation

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝟰𝗗 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗰𝘀? 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗨𝗩 (accepted at @CVPR)! In 𝗣𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗨𝗩, we make 4D Gaussian scenes video-native. [1/4]

@blauereiter Nice just got KPop Demon Hunters Art book a couple weeks back my oldest has it on her desk hasn't returned it back lol 😅

I just updated my Art Books Review page - 12 titles so far for 2026, 1090 in total since 2009. Here are some of my latest reviewed; explore the full list via the link in comments below 👇

@blauereiter Still and has been one of my favs

Absolutely GOATed list of animators.

Excited to share Track4World, feedforward 3D tracking of all pixels in the world-centric coordinate system. Code has been released, and welcome to try it! Homepage: jiah-cloud.github.io/Track4World.gi… Code: github.com/TencentARC/Tra… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.02573