@iflyCHS how are security lines today? Are the site estimates accurate, give the gov shutdown disruptions?
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Kevin Curry
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Kevin Curry
@kmcurry
Into real time 3D and the web since the 20th century. Ut Prosim he/him
Port Royal Katılım Ocak 2008
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“Intangible is already doing it.” Yes we are! 🚀 @intangibleai
Bilawal Sidhu@bilawalsidhu
World Models vs Game Engines -- Who Wins? Gaming stocks had a bloodbath after Google's Genie 3. Unity down. Roblox down. Nintendo down. Unity down 35%. Unity's CEO posted a whole thread. Tim Sweeney weighed in. They're both saying the same thing -- world models won't replace game engines, they'll merge together. I tested Genie 3 extensively, broke down the CEO arguments, and mapped out what's actually real versus hype. Including why this might play out exactly like self-driving cars did -- and what that means for the next 3-5 years. 0:00 - Gaming stocks tank after Genie 3 1:12 - Unity CEO's damage control thread 2:51 - Tim Sweeney's response 3:46 - The hybrid approach (and why it has merit) 5:38 - The gap nobody's talking about 10:46 - Why Genie 3 is an entirely new medium 14:38 - Where I actually net out
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World Models vs Game Engines -- Who Wins?
Gaming stocks had a bloodbath after Google's Genie 3. Unity down. Roblox down. Nintendo down. Unity down 35%.
Unity's CEO posted a whole thread. Tim Sweeney weighed in. They're both saying the same thing -- world models won't replace game engines, they'll merge together.
I tested Genie 3 extensively, broke down the CEO arguments, and mapped out what's actually real versus hype. Including why this might play out exactly like self-driving cars did -- and what that means for the next 3-5 years.
0:00 - Gaming stocks tank after Genie 3
1:12 - Unity CEO's damage control thread
2:51 - Tim Sweeney's response
3:46 - The hybrid approach (and why it has merit)
5:38 - The gap nobody's talking about
10:46 - Why Genie 3 is an entirely new medium
14:38 - Where I actually net out
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To build Intangible Studio we made our own building blocks; a design system for UI/UX + an ECS package for interactive 3D. It makes dev easier, more robust for Eng and works great w/ the LLMs we're using. It's also ideal for vibe coding product ideas like this "Storyboarder"
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🔥 Community Spotlight: A high school senior built thermal simulation in the browser.
Raziel Moesch learned Newton's law of cooling in class and turned it into a full WebGPU project a few weeks later. Drop in any STL file, voxelize it, simulate heat transfer on the GPU. He chose WebGPU over OpenGL specifically so he could demo it without friction. That's the kind of thinking that gets you hired.
🔗 webgpu.com/showcase/gpu-p…
#WebGPU #ComputeShaders #Simulation #CreativeCoding #JavaScript
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Gaussian Splatting is REALLY getting crazy 🥹
Arcturus Studios is showcasing their technology which is focused on capturing sports in full volumetric… so you can experience them at any angle
Insane!
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I've built an "infinite canvas" both ways: HTML and Canvas. The tradeoffs are pretty stark.
HTML approach:
- World transform Div
- Pan & zoom via CSS transforms
- DOM element creation
- DOM virtualization for offscreen content
- Event handling
- Selection, dragging, transforms
- Snapping & alignment
- Efficient image loading
Time to ship: ~2-4 weeks
Stack: Web Components, Lit, SolidJS
Inspiration: tldraw
Canvas approach:
- Context setup & recovery
- RAF-driven render loop
- Scene graph + local/world matrices
- Shape rendering & effects
- Camera system
- Render pipeline and batching
- Culling
- Hit testing
- Custom event system
- Text rendering (SDF/MSDF)
- Buffer management
- Transformers
- Snapping & alignment
Time to ship: ~1-3 years
Stack: Rust, C++, TypeScript
Inspiration: PixiJS, Konva, Evan Wallace Blog
In ~98% of cases, HTML is the better choice. You're standing on years of browser optimization for layout, text, events, and hit testing. If you need Canvas, you can always embed it inside HTML later. Going the other way is much harder and doesn't guarantee a better performance.
tldraw@tldraw
There would be performance wins here over time, too. WebGL implemented poorly can be worse than HTML because, well, browsers rendering too and browser engineers are good at their job and so rendering HTML is extremely optimized.
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Created a @PlayCanvas Engine example that shows how to create hotspots and annotations for 3D Gaussian Splat based scenes! 🪄
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Niche cool thing about @intangibleai is that I can make this on a Friday night while watching a couple of episodes of Turn.
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@supabase we're experiencing issues. Down Detector reports a big spike, but your status hasn't reported anything. Can you share any insight? Thank you.
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These are just 2 Keyframes.
#AI did the rest.
@cascadeur3d just released an impressive update that adds to the AI interpolation features that run locally on your PC 🤯.
I am not an animator but creating a walk cycle took me literally 20 seconds... and the majority of that time was spent understanding how to add a new keyframe.
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@Paul_Oesten I think that's part of the story. But also the open sourcing of the Editor and the release of PlayCanvas React have had an impact. And other advances in the Engine itself, such as WebGPU support. We've definitely been very busy over the last year!
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You can enter the mirror dimension with 3D Gaussian Splats. 🙃
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In two years, the level of detail you can capture in a 3D Gaussian Splat has skyrocketed. In this scene on SuperSplat, I can zoom right in on a certificate and the text is perfectly legible. Imagine where we will be in another 2 years. 🪄
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Annotations arriving soon in SuperSplat. ℹ️
Create informational hotspots for your 3D Gaussian Splats!
What do you think? 👂
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For crying out loud! When is this kind of content going to be an embed of a splat (or whatever embeddable 3d) instead of videos? Cats of the internet demand it.
Will Eastcott@willeastcott
A cat in a splat! So fuzzy, imagine that! 🐱✨ A swirl, a twirl, of color and fur, A Gaussian dream - it’s all a soft blur! Rendered in real time, right where you’re at.
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A fun little 'splat portrait' uploaded to SuperSplat. The astonishing thing? It's only 1.6MB! A full 3D XR-friendly scan no bigger than a PNG/JPG! Made possible by @PlayCanvas. 🗜️
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📢 @PlayCanvas (part of @Snap) is hiring!
We are looking for a software engineer to join us.
🧑💻 Love web tech, 3D and Gaussian splatting?
🚀 Want to make PlayCanvas + SuperSplat (more) amazing?
🇬🇧 We are based in London UK
Help us build the future of the 3D web. ✨
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