Vincent Woo

Did you miss seeing my BART movie Tunnel Vision in theaters? Now you too can experience a room full of people cheering as you emerge from the Transbay Tube. And as a treat, if you come to the Roxie showing, you can experience it IN 4K! 1/3

The Rialto and Roxie theaters approached me to do more screenings in light of BART's potential imminent doom. Theaters, like many other cultural institutions, depend on customers taking BART. 2/3

Have you ever wanted to see Sutro Tower up close? Now you can! I'm releasing a very high quality model of the tower that you can easily fly through on your own, thanks to very cool developments in Gaussian splatting 🧵...

One reason I made this is because I think Gaussian splats are the future and I think we can be embedding these into all kinds of immersive experiences. I think newsrooms should be making and using these for storytelling even in same-day beat reporting.

Have you ever wanted to see Sutro Tower up close? Now you can! I'm releasing a very high quality model of the tower that you can easily fly through on your own, thanks to very cool developments in Gaussian splatting 🧵...

The biggest challenge I had was trying to color match images taken on four different sensors at different times of day, which gsplat's bilateral grid feature does a very good job of handling. Pictured is an early failure from PostShot.

Have you ever wanted to see Sutro Tower up close? Now you can! I'm releasing a very high quality model of the tower that you can easily fly through on your own, thanks to very cool developments in Gaussian splatting 🧵...

I implemented a JS decoder for a recent compression scheme for splats called Self Organizing Gaussians (fraunhoferhhi.github.io/Self-Organiz...) that leverages classic image codecs. It brings the size of the scene down to under 30MB!

Have you ever wanted to see Sutro Tower up close? Now you can! I'm releasing a very high quality model of the tower that you can easily fly through on your own, thanks to very cool developments in Gaussian splatting 🧵...