Image created with OpenAI GPT-Image-1. Image prompt: mid‑1990s web‑browser screenshot, CRT glow, 256‑color dithering — Blink‑tag headlines flashing above rainbow‑rule HR lines — QuickTimeVR panorama placeholder titled “AR‑VR Demo” — crisp pixel edges, screen‑door scan‑lines, phosphor glow

My thoughts on Grok 4 Heavy after 12hrs: Crazy good! “Create an animation of a crowd of people walking to form “Hello world, I am Grok” as camera changes to birds-eye.” And it 1-shotted the *entire* thing. No other model comes close. Watch the full clip. https://x.com/mckaywrigley/status/1943385794414334032

Meta buys minority stake in eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica worth $3.5B (META:NASDAQ) | Seeking Alpha https://seekingalpha.com/news/4465967-meta-buys-minority-stake-in-eyewear-giant-essilorluxottica-worth-35b

Video game actors’ strike officially ends after AI deal https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ykx117keqo

Flying through a big ass 3D Gaussian Splat of a hot spring in Japan. Once we can generate worlds of this scale it’s over. For now we must painstakingly capture reality. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1940627975176966164

LiteReality Graphics-Ready 3D Scene Reconstruction from RGB-D Scans TL;DR: Automatic pipeline (indoor RGB-D scans -> graphics-ready scenes). High-quality meshes with PBR materials matching real-world appearance; handle articulated objects as well https://x.com/Almorgand/status/1942858507616657643

🚀Introducing Hunyuan3D-PolyGen, our newly upgraded and industry-first art-grade 3D generative model. It brings effortless intelligent retopology, making AI-generated models ready for professional art pipelines. ✅ Superior Mesh Topology: Our self-developed mesh autoregressive https://x.com/TencentHunyuan/status/1942174221976981881

Here are some vibe tests we ran: 1. Interactive 3D Mountain Scene https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/1943687599727763835

🎆 Happy 4th of July! Welcome to Fireworks Arena! Which model can one-shot a firework simulation the best? We used WebDev Arena to find out, and couldn’t believe the results. These models have gotten incredible! The lineup: Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 4 Opus: What do you think? https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1941296633259622902

Puzzles: Unbounded Video-Depth Augmentation for Scalable End-to-End 3D Reconstruction
https://jiahao-ma.github.io/puzzles/

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