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The license used for this is quite a read.

  Available to the world except the European Union, the UK, and South Korea

Not sure what led to that choice. I'd have expected either the U.S. & Canada to be in there, or not these.

  3. DISTRIBUTION.
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What's that doing in the license? What's the implications of a license-listed "encouragement"?

It explicitly says using a single picture. Wouldn't the world become even more expressive if multiple pictures could be added, such as in a photogrammetry scenario?

Spin the camera 1080 degrees in place you cowards!!

These clips are very short and don’t rotate the camera more than like 45 degrees. Genie3 also cheats and only rotate the camera 90 degrees.

It’s always important to pay attention to what models don’t do. And in this case it’s turn the bloody camera around.

I refuse to accept any model to be a “world model” if it can’t pass a simple “spin in place” test.

Bah hum bug.

Interesting that they chose the color red in the comparison table to determine the best score of that entry.

So could it actually turn around, like a full 360, and the image would stay the same? It looks super cool but the videos I saw just pan a little one way or the other

What is currently the best model (or multi-model process) to go from text-to-3D-asset?

Ideally based on FOSS models.

In 1995 I went to a talk on Image Processing by an Indian professor. I asked him if there were any methods for improving low resolution images, just to make them look better (I think this was in the context of TV transmissions). He said you couldn't make up information.

Well, 30 years later, you can generate a video from a photograph.

What I'm interested with is taking Panoramax pictures (a free StreetView alternative) and recreate 3D navigable scenes from them.

I’m waiting like crazy for one of these to show up on vr.

This is not open source. It is weights-available.

Also, there is no training data, which would be the "preferred form" of modification.

From their license: [1]

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As well as an acceptable use policy:

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Seems the kind of thing StreetView data would have been perfect to train on.

I wonder if you could loop back the last frame of each video to extend the generated world further. Creating a kind of AI fever dream

Can I use this to replace a LiDAR?

I see a lot of skeptical folks here... isn't this the first such model? I remember seeing a lot of image to 3d models before, but they'd all produce absurd results in a few moments. This seems to produce really good output in comparison.

> The minimum GPU memory required is 60GB for 540p.

We're about to see next gen games requiring these as minimum system requirements...

I think its a matter of time when we will have photorealistic playable computer games generated by these engines.

This is genuinely exciting.

> Minimum: The minimum GPU memory required is 60GB for 540p.

Cool, I guess… If you have tens of thousands of $ to drop on a GPU for output that’s definitely not usable in any 3D project out-of-the-box.

What's your opinion on modeling the world? Some people think the world is 3D, so we need to model the 3D world. Some people think that since human perception is 2D, we can just model the 2D view rather than the underlying 3D world, since we don't have enough 3D data to capture the world but we have many 2D views.

Fixed question: Thanks a lot for the feedback that human perception is not 2D. Let me rephrase the question: since all the visual data we see on computers can be represented as 2D images (indexed by time, angle, etc.), and we have many such 2D datasets, do we still need to explicitly model the underlying 3D world?

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