Comment by tombert
13 hours ago
This is cool as hell.
I remember like seventeen years years ago, Microsoft had "PhotoSynth", which would make 3D environments based on a bunch of images, and seventeen-year-old-tombert thought it was one of the most amazing things to ever be done on a computer.
Doing this with just one image makes this at least an order of magnitude cooler. I will be playing with this over the weekend.
yeah I remember that was pretty neat each generation 3d stuff gets wilder and wilder
I used to spend all day on Bryce3D creating 3d landscapes, leaving computer on fall night to render like 10 seconds of video of a flyover sunset
bit of a rant here but we are definitely speedrunning 3d and its just going to get wilder once we get glass free bounded AR...projecting 3d video streams and objects in front of our phones (this one I know Samsung is already working on) and rooms
Photosynth was awesome, I really miss it, but it was more of a panorama tool than a 3d environment.
My pixel6 has a photo sphere mode on the camera which is the same thing
You could actually make it have a rough 3D environment as well. Their demo had a model of Piazza San Marco with dots to estimate the actual buildings and the like.
Oh yes, I remember that now!