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 · 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 · 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
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 · 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 · 16/02/2025heres a better comparison mcmc (screenshots 1 and 3) vs adc (2 and 4) surroundings are way more defined with ADC at the expense of detail on the subject scan itself 110
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 16/02/2025Eh, ADC produced just as bad results with less detail on the actual building (sceenshot 1) however, i think it's better at reconstructing the surrounding (screenshot 2) 100
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 10/02/2025btw, the skybox didnt help much here either, even when I had a decent amount of ground photos looking up at the sky. I'll have to try again when i scan a scene with more of the surround and sky captured intentionally 110
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 · 31/01/2025then, you do a "mesh reconstruction" generates depth maps per image and then fuses them all together into a high poly mesh. The result is a 100mil polygon model (even with 2x image downscale) 040
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 · 30/01/2025and you bet I did it with my 3d printable scale marker wizardofaz.medium.com/how-to-use-m... 090
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 · 30/01/2025more to come over the next few days! (also working on their gaussian splat conversions which are awwwwesome to view in VR) 180
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 30/01/2025Church of the Holy Apostles (Surp Arak'elots) skfb.ly/p9r6v 140
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
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 · 28/01/2025Moonlight 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 · 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
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
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 15/12/2024You should see the hunks in the children’s books we grew up with 000
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
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 · 30/11/2024why does this scene in Cyberpunk look so flat with RT (2nd image) than without (1st image)? 330
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 30/11/2024Report from my family in Aleppo, Syria (Armenians) Before you support the rebels just cause they’re “anti-authoritarian”, consider this Look at what happened when Saddam fell: the power vacuum pulled in even worse extremists (aka ISIS) who killed gays, raped women, destabilized the whole region…🧵 280
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 28/11/2024I’m really happy that valve is going with controllers that look like Quest 3’s The form factor is great, small, easy to pick up or drop, and portable. Combined with the fact that it’ll mirror Steam Deck’s buttons means it’s going to a killer 2D gaming console too I’m hyped 3200
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 24/11/2024There’s something so cool about a design/dev studio like @liquidcity.bsky.social who also makes short films about technology I had totally missed their film “Agents” from last year—it’s about a future of living with AR AI agents, about privacy, and decentralized AI Go watch it vimeo.com/864503702 1202
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 23/11/2024I’m having a peak gamer experience—playing halo 3 via system link drinking mt dew and eating pizza 5261
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 20/11/2024This silly little tape is still undoubtedly the most reliable way to keep a Quest display active No, don’t tell me about meta quest dev hub. None of those dev settings are reliably persistent across restarts 8401
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 20/11/2024Some fantastic updates from RealityCapture 1. COLMAP export for NeRFs/3DGS!! 2. Relative file paths!!! 3. Texture defragmentation - aka minimize the amount of UV islands it creates during unwrap 4. Automatically removing marginal triangles during reconstruction (aka don’t make the mesh watertight) 170
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 08/11/2024I often post scans/splats on Twitter but somehow this one blew up I’ve been thinking about why and I think the idea that capturing something you cherish and that you’ll lose soon, to revisit in vr is a very salient/relatable one 1161
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 04/11/2024Gaussian splatting is so good at capturing context. For me, it has changed my approach to volumetric photography. For me with photogrammetry, it was very much either object-based. But with splats, I can think more frustum-based, composing a scene with a foreground, background, and subject 190
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 04/07/2023Tbt to me getting my US citizenship 10 years ago. Happy 4th! 🇺🇸 190
Azad Balabanian @azadux.com · 04/07/2023Fyi you wanna be cool and have your own @ domain, follow this tutorial youtu.be/lP3OVCwyqJA 091
