Sreerag Raghavan

@AlternaAssets @lichtfeldstudio The steps on the left seem a bit messed up

LichtFeld-Studioのなにやら新しいSteragyのIGS＋とかいうやーつ試してみたんだけど葉っぱとか細っこい輪郭のものが段違いのディテールですよ？？！

I’ve booked a blood collection for 7am and you decide overnight that it’s okay to automatically push that to 10:30am? Please fix your systems.

@apollodiag you are now unreliable for booking blood tests, since you conveniently decide to push collection time to whatever time you wish with no regard for someone who has booked a time slot after fasting a certain number of hours. Why do you even commit if you can’t service?

I firmly believe that we can literally feel the amount of handmade human care put into something. That’s why the old animated films often feel like they have more “soul.” That is the expression of human care you’re sensing. I hope we don’t lose this.

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@ians_india Such a show. It’s a pity that in India one can’t do a job without looking so destructive. Why couldn’t they have gotten personnel to dismantle the board in an organised standard way? Why resort to such destructive practice in recovery?

Chennai, Tamil Nadu: Revenue officials seal the Saravana Bhavan hotel in Alandur, worth Rs. 300 crore, after recovering 15 acres of government land. The Chengalpattu Land Finance Tribunal ruled in the government’s favor. Collector Sneha Uthira ordered staff eviction, nameboard removal, and gate sealing despite rain. Heavy police remain deployed near GST Road airport.

@bilawalsidhu Whoa, the level of detail on the cleanup looks lovely! Wondering if this could be used for more than just satellite imagery 🤔

So these researchers figured out you can basically hallucinate 3D cities into existence using just satellite photos & a diffusion model. The problem's pretty straightforward: satellites only see rooftops. Building facades? Invisible. Street-level detail? Doesn't exist. But people want flyable 3D environments, which means you need all that occluded geometry. When I worked on google maps photogrammetry, we could only use satellite-based 3D for isolated stuff like the pyramids - anything city-scale required airplane flyovers. Which is fine until you hit aerial-denied regions where you literally can't fly. Huge chunks of the world just unavailable. Their trick is honestly kind of beautiful. They train gaussian splats on satellite views, but as it descends toward ground level, the renders turn to absolute garbage - artifacts everywhere. Instead of fighting this, they just treat those nightmare renders as the input to a diffusion model. Basically - "hey FLUX, fix this mess." Then here's where it gets clever: they generate multiple diffusion samples per view instead of committing to one. Because any single denoising path is probably wrong in 3D space, but if you generate a couple and let the GS optimization find consensus across them, you get actual geometric consistency. They do this in episodes, curriculum style - start high, gradually descend (hence the name Skyfall-GS!). With each iteration the ground-level views get less fucked. By the end you've got real-time flyable cities that look surprisingly real, and the geometry still matches the satellite input. No 3D training data. No street-level photos. Just satellites + diffusion doing what it does best - filling in the blanks. It's like neural scene completion but actually practical, and it unlocks basically the entire world.

@diveshnaidoo @Simulon And the reflective caustics on the surface of the Mac Studio? Does the world mesh have PBR passes like a shadow or reflection catcher? That reflection on the the Mac Studio looks so good 👏✨

@srghvn @Simulon The real world is reconstructed as a 3D mesh.

Lighting is key to creating believable VFX. @Simulon generates accurate 360 hdr lighting in seconds. But there’s something much stranger going on in this video. The chrome ball is being moved through the world as if it is actually there. How do you think this is possible? 👀 We’ve built something that will completely change how 3D visual effects are made and it’s coming to Simulon next week.

@janusch_patas We’re getting closer and closer to simulated reality. This looks incredible.

[SIGGRAPH Asia '25] Editable Physically-based Reflections in Raytraced Gaussian Radiance Fields Contributions: • A reconstruction method for radiance fields, with distinct optimization for diffuse and specular components, using path tracing for the latter. • An efficient and accurate training method that reconstructs the diffuse and specular components of the scene in a single representation. • An efficient ray tracer for Gaussian primitives, fast enough to enable treatment of multiple bounces with minimal computational overhead.

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@techbharat The rage baiting is working well

And some people call Apple the most innovative tech company on the planet! I think they're blind.

@Apple I so miss the clean legible look of iOS 18. It used to be cleaner, quicker and just feel lighter to use. Glass UI doesn’t make sense on an iPhone. There was so much better visual hierarchy and feel much less cluttered. Please add the option to keep the older look. #UIUX

@jimmygunawanapp Haha! Good one!

#bsdoodles spirited AIR

Happy to see a paper from India in the volumetrics / radiance fields space

I haven’t seen a better review video than this ever 🤯

@XRarchitect What’s VPS though?

I reimagined my living room with World Labs. Gemini helped design it, World Labs generated the 3D environment, and VPS localized it to my space 1:1 scale. I can now step into a persistent redesign in mixed reality and explore it as though it exists physically. How it was built:

@justinkline @blizaine Sometimes he feels like slowing down a bit in a life… not too slow like walking, but not too fast like flash run either. Somewhere in between he finds his peace

@blizaine Why does flash need to drive a car? 😝

The Flash forgot to use the bathroom during a joyride. Tools: Real clip of car. Hailuo AI v02 (PSA: star/end Frames are FREE until the 17th)

The experience you give out in this world comes back to your soul in some way or the other

@SwiggyCares @Swiggy The order was received, but it’s not cool that you don’t offer a free cancellation due to delays from your side. Please take it as a feedback

@srghvn @Swiggy @srghvn It is regrettable to hear about these situations. We would appreciate it if you could provide us with the Order ID so that we can investigate and offer you the appropriate solution. ^Rahul

@Swiggy @SwiggyCares it is frustrating that you charge such a hefty fee when you can’t deliver on time