[HN Gopher] Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Spl...
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       Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth
        
       https://x.com/revelium_studio/status/2009570090568577045
        
       Author : ytpete
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2026-01-09 18:38 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | xnx wrote:
       | Or one-click install on your own device:
       | https://pinokio.co/item.html?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2F...
        
         | causal wrote:
         | What is Pinokio? The website just says "Your PC is the Cloud" -
         | what?
        
           | xnx wrote:
           | That website tries too hard to write clever marketing copy
           | and does a bad job describing what actually is.
           | 
           | Better description: Pinokio is a free, open-source "AI
           | browser" that simplifies installing, running, and managing
           | complex, open-source AI applications and creative tools (like
           | Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI) with one-click scripts, removing
           | the need for coding or complex command-line setup.
        
             | causal wrote:
             | Huh. That doesn't sound like a browser at all. But okay,
             | thanks for the summary!
        
               | Cieric wrote:
               | I think in this case browser is meant as a place to
               | browse, e.g. the Google Play store is an app browser. I
               | don't hear it used that way often anymore, but it at
               | least sounds familiar.
        
       | brk wrote:
       | Tried a few random images and scenes, overall wasn't that
       | impressive. Maybe I'm using the wrong kinds of input images or
       | something, but for the most part once I moved more than a small
       | amount, the rendering was mostly noise. To be fair, I didn't
       | really expect much more.
       | 
       | Neat demo, but feels like things need to come quite a ways to
       | make this interesting.
        
       | Johnny_Bonk wrote:
       | Cool, is there a way to upload several photos of a room from
       | different angles to fuse it all together? Is there an api?
        
         | riotnrrd wrote:
         | That's a pretty well-solved problem at this point, if you want
         | to do it yourself. You'll want some kind of NeRF tool and a way
         | to calculate the camera poses of the photos you took. COLMAP is
         | the tool most people use for the latter.
         | 
         | I'd recommend trying Instant Neural Graphics Primitives
         | (https://github.com/NVlabs/instant-ngp) from NVIDIA. It's a
         | couple years old, so not state-of-the-art, but it runs on just
         | about anything and is extremely fast.
        
       | mawadev wrote:
       | Stuck at 90% forever..
        
         | tripplyons wrote:
         | Same here
        
         | M4R5H4LL wrote:
         | Same for me
        
         | eps wrote:
         | Yup, same here.
        
       | personjerry wrote:
       | This is just Apple's tool plus a splat viewing library? Perhaps
       | disingenuous to call "our web app"
       | 
       | This is the heavy lifting: https://github.com/apple/ml-sharp
       | 
       | Previous discussion:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284658
        
       | j2kun wrote:
       | Would be useful to have the website say something, _anything_
       | about what this is doing besides asking you to upload an image.
        
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