Reposted by Azad BalabanianNathie @nathievr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026You can now play flat games like you're looking through a portal. Credits: @azadux.com 141
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 24/01/2026In this house, we watch @techaltar.bsky.social on the big screen. Pure kino 1211
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 24/11/2025This thing is so sweet…. Finally getting to play thru DS/3DS and other console games that I never had. AYN Thor. Amazing retro emulator handheld 270
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 27/06/2025Death stranding 2 feels overrated with review scores of 9s and 10s (and I say this as a big DS fan) Glad to see a lot more nuanced takes in this Reddit thread from hardcore fans www.reddit.com/r/DeathStran...reddit.comFrom the DeathStranding community on Reddit: No spoilers how would you guys rate death stranding 2 compared to the first oneExplore this post and more from the DeathStranding community 030
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 23/06/2025Death Stranding 2 reviews are looking goooood. So excited to play tonight! 040
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 21/05/2025@garnettlee.bsky.social do you ever consider podcasting again on the regular? Maybe from an investor/game biz perspective? You and John D are the people I miss hearing from the most 220
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 10/05/2025ive been on a hunt to figure out what games support 480hz (or above). here's what i've found so far any game that has a fully unlocked frame rate works any other games that come to mind? 120
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 09/05/2025Noticing that many PC games from the early to mid 2010s have an arbitrary limit of 200fps ie: - doom 2016 - mirrors edge catalyst - battlefield 4 010
Reposted by Azad BalabanianJon Barron @jonbarron.bsky.social · 08/04/2025A thread of thoughts on radiance fields, from my keynote at 3DV: Radiance fields have had 3 distinct generations. First was NeRF: just posenc and a tiny MLP. This was slow to train but worked really well, and it was unusually compressed --- The NeRF was smaller than the images. 29321
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 27/03/2025This open-air quest 3 facial interface is truly the convertible, drop-top, “feel and smell the air around you” accessory of VR 190
Reposted by Azad BalabanianKrisWB 🌱 @kriswbennett.co.uk · 27/03/2025Hey VR/MR devs 👋 We need your 📈 DATA 📉 for our Reboot Blue talk; 'The game has changed: VR games marketing in 2025' - All data you provide is completely anonymous - We'll post a summary of the findings after Reboot - Should only take you 5 mins - We'd be very appreciative - Form below 👇 11714
Reposted by Azad BalabanianMohamed Sayed @mohamedsayed.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Splats are great, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could transform them into the stuff of dreams? Introducing our #CVPR2025 paper ✨Morpheus✨! Morpheus lets you change the shape and appearance of 3D Gaussian splats with a few words! nianticlabs.github.io/morpheus/ (1/6) 194
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 23/03/2025end-to-end latency test for moonlight streaming from my PC (shown on the monitor) to me Steam Deck Total latency at 60fps is around a frame (16ms). Even less so for 90fps. Feels fantastic for playing with a controller 061
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 04/03/2025Why doesn’t valve put any effort into making Steam Link as good as moonlight streaming? Such a shame! It’s a core part of the Steam deck experience 470
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 01/03/2025Ai is great case I can ask it “Yo bud ffmpeg command compress video to 720p 30fps make it good looking but under 30 mb no audio h264 mp4 stat homie keep it succinct” and get a perfect result 060
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 26/02/2025I just got a phone call from someone advertising a GDC event... wtf! 130
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 23/02/2025I put together a "1 click" utility that converts Fujifilm MPO files -> SBS -> Spatial Photos for Apple Vision Pro It combines CLI utilities from Stereoautoalign and Spatial Video Tools to batch process a series of image github.com/azadbal/MPO-...github.comGitHub - azadbal/MPO-to-Spatial: Converts Fujifilm MPO stereo photos to Vision Pro Spatial photosConverts Fujifilm MPO stereo photos to Vision Pro Spatial photos - GitHub - azadbal/MPO-to-Spatial: Converts Fujifilm MPO stereo photos to Vision Pro Spatial photos 0143
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 19/02/2025Currently dealing with two opinions at odds with each other 1. meta horizon worlds is cancer and is killing the quest vr dev ecosystem 2. meta horizon worlds is the reason why meta is subsidizing the headsets, which is how the quest dev vr exist in the first place Thoughts? 690
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 18/02/2025The camera’s here and I’m lovin it! Fantastic camera baseline, optical zoom, surprisingly decent quality in low light, a 3D display for preview, auto-alignment during capture, and a satisfying flip up/down mechanism for turning it on—15 year old tech! Will work on converting to spatial photos! 4181
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 11/02/2025just bought a 15 year old 3D camera (Fujifilm w3) shipping from Japan lets goooo my stereographs/spatial photos will finally include people and other non-static subjects 😆 090
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 09/02/2025The reason I’m in Bsky is because I missed seeing a lot of your faces on Twitter Glad to see that there is a place where a lot of the vr world congregated outside of twitter 3350
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 07/02/2025New 3D scan from my Ruins of Ani series “Monastery of the Hripsimian Virgins” Links to view/download a mesh and Gaussian splat bellow 👇 5395
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 02/02/2025Found a neat use case of my Vision Pro: previewing 3D prints before printing them. Visualizing the scale of prints is always hard—not anymore! The workflow is super easy. Export model as USDZ from blender and open it in Vision Pro. 2293
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 01/02/2025Church of Saint Gregory (Exterior) - Ruins of Ani gaussian splat to be viewed in VR. Gracia ai link below 190
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 31/01/2025btw - this is what a photogrammetry project looks like you have a whole bunch of photos (in this case 1180 images from a DSLR and a drone) where you compare high contrast features against one another to find shared tie points, which make up the point cloud that you see next, for meshing 1143
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 30/01/2025btw I make all my 3D scans 1:1 scale to explore in VR btw viewable as gaussian splats... coming soon! 1130
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 30/01/2025A few year ago, my wife and I went to Turkey to 3D scan the ruins of Ani, the medieval capital of Armenia I’m finally starting to publish my work—downloadable via sketchfab for free! Links below 👇 4495
Reposted by Azad BalabanianAras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Unity Gaussian Splatting 1.1.0: now with Scaniverse SPZ format input support, and some Unity 6 URP render graph shenanigans. github.com/aras-p/Unity...github.comRelease v1.1.0: SPZ format input, Unity 6 render graph, fixes · aras-p/UnityGaussianSplattingFeature: Scaniverse SPZ input files are supported for creation of splat assets now. #161 Feature: splat objects got a "Render Order" setting that can be used for more manual control of drawing ord... 0245
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 28/01/2025Digging my meta ray ban desk charger Designed and made in Palo Alto! peterkuhar.com/rayban-meta/ 030
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 28/01/2025@christianspicer.bsky.social I know you like GeForce Now so have you tried local streaming via Moonlight? It’s an open sourced version of GameStream and is super high quality + low latency. Runs on almost anything (YMMV) I stream pc games -> Vision Pro/Steam deck bsky.app/profile/azad... 150
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 28/01/2025Moonlight streaming pc -> steam deck latency test It’s… pretty dang fast! A part of it is due to the HEVC decoding speed on Steam deck being super fast (<1ms) 030
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 27/01/2025@garnettlee.bsky.social @jeffcannata.bsky.social Any chance either of you have an archive of Weekend Confirmed? The official RSS feed (still up!) only starts at ep 180. There is an archive.org collection but the files are inaccessible. Would be a shame if those eps become lost media! 200
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 24/01/2025Ok I’m back to streaming games to my Vision Pro Forgot of fing awesome it is to play on a massive screen compared to my Steam deck. I’m even using my 5.1 surround sound speakers for that non-simulated spatial audio 2110
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 16/01/2025Farewell @yosp-jp.bsky.social, former president of SIE, one of the biggest names behind PlayStation Your support for indie games on the platform is cherished and your endorsement of Puzzling Places was an absolute highlight ❤️ 🙇♂️ 030
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 15/01/2025My Meta Ray Bans have become something I use daily, even without prescription lenses - sunglasses + podcast speakers while I bike to work - mic + speakers for phone and some zoom calls - dashcam for the streets They feel like v0.1 of AR glasses, focusing use cases that already exist (audio/video) 120
Reposted by Azad BalabanianAzad Balabanian @azadux.com · 04/07/2023Fyi you wanna be cool and have your own @ domain, follow this tutorial youtu.be/lP3OVCwyqJA 091
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 24/12/2024The new Indiana jones game is best looking game I’ve ever played The full path tracing mode is truly the first time I’ve been awestruck with ray tracing. Every room GI, every material’s speculars, every object on a shelf, every leaf and branch just looks… right! 2292
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 19/12/2024I love moonlight streaming ❤️ I can be hundreds of miles away from my PC, run a Cyberpunk at 120fps HDR on it, and stream it to my phone with only 20ms of latency And if I’m at home on the same network, latency is down to just 4ms!! I can play from my phone, laptop, Apple TV, or a vr headset! 2170
Reposted by Azad BalabanianAlex Coulombe @ibrews.bsky.social · 15/12/2024How to get access to an Android XR developer kit! goo.gle/xr-bootcampgoo.gleAndroid XR | Android DevelopersAndroid XR (Extended Reality) device development hub 2277
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 10/12/2024Some personal news! 📣 Recently, I joined Niantic Labs as the product lead to work on MR apps and Gaussian splatting! Today, we’re launching “Into The Scaniverse”—A way of viewing @scaniverse.bsky.social splats in VR (yours and the ones posted to the map) 📸 More deets below 👇 4292
Reposted by Azad BalabanianLydia Choy @choy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Btw, I thought it was well-known that fashion/aesthetic trends resurface from 30 years ago (currently 1990s) because the generation that was growing up then is peaking right now (entering middle age) and that nostalgia influences pop culture. I’ve gotten some surprised reactions when I’ve said this. 1101
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 07/12/2024I play more “games in vr” than actual “vr games” these days I suspect this might be the case in down the line when headsets are abundant I don’t think this is a bad thing. A user using vr for 2D things (films, games) is 10x more likely to boot up a vr game than a person not wearing a headset 260
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 04/12/2024i should just share more photos of photogrammetry and 3dgs reconstructions theyre cool to just look at 2251
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 04/12/2024Virtual monitors in vr can finally put an end to the stupid r/tvtoohigh debates 130
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 30/11/2024why does this scene in Cyberpunk look so flat with RT (2nd image) than without (1st image)? 330
