Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) on X (original) (raw)

Spatial intelligence. World models. Visual effects. Creator w/ 1.6M+ audience. Tech Curator @ TED. A16z Scout. Ex-Google PM (AR/VR & 3D Maps) bilawal.ai

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  OG Anunoby is too sick. Here is the full point-of-view 3d reconstruction of his winning tip-in from the Knicks game last night. You can literally relive it from his perspective. Built with viewpoint pro using stadium tracking cameras and unreal engine.
  
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  It’s wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles. Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well. Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit
  
  11 years, 6 months. RIP my darling boy.
  
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  The internet going wild with the microwave AI filter -- prolly because it's pure nightmare fuel 😭
  
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  So India has this app called blinkit where you can get literally anything delivered in 10 mins. My mind is blown.
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  peak internet: ai generated cctv footage of police arresting ppl for wearing huge boots video credit: u/Qemmish
  
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  Before/after of Corridor's latest AI video is wild. They shot video on greenscreen, made virtual sets in Unreal, then reskinned it to anime by finetuning Stable Diffusion. Net result? 120 VFX shots done by a team of 3 on a dime. Bravo! This is a milestone in creative technology🧵
  
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  Introducing VibeCon — the world’s largest vibe coding conference. Make sure you register today: http://127.0.0.1:8080/register
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  Midjourney v5 has pushed into photorealism, a goal which has eluded the computer graphics industry for decades (!) 🤯 Insane progression, and all that by 11 people with a shared dream. 🧵 Let's explore what these breakthrough in Generative AI mean for 3D & VFX as we know it...
  
  
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  Apple will make some gorgeous AR glasses — they literally squeezed a whole phone into a mf-ing camera bump.
  
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  "When you ask your stoned roommates to put away the groceries" 😭
  
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  OpenAI just dropped their Sora research paper. As expected, the video-to-video results are flipping spectacular 🪄 A few other gems:
  
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  Generative AI is super cool… BUT I’m continually blown away with the work happening in ‘procedural’ 3D modelling. Especially given these plugins are for a free (!) 3D tool like Blender. We needed a fancy Houdini license to do this just a few years ago 🤯
  
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  Generative AI is cool and all, but procedural 3D modeling just hits different. Check out this Houdini setup by Pepe Buendia. Why this is cool: Instead of manually placing every building and car, this system generates an NYC-style city that builds itself -- automatically