Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu

Blending reality & imagination. Ex-Google Maps & AR/VR. VFX & 3D creator with 1.4M+ subs & 360M+ views. Scout, A16z games. Host, TED AI Show. ੴ. beacons.ai/billyfx Austin, TX 🪄 → Joined December 2010

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Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu

3 hours ago

Woah! Android and Hardware was once like the separation of church and state. Now they’re one and the same to bring AI everywhere. Relatedly, who’s gonna be at Google I/O this year? Let’s catch up in MTV. It should be an interesting one!

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Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu

a day ago

Radiance field of the massive dinosaur statue on Google’s new campus. Love the psychedelic paint details! Pretty cool that ~300 photos can turn into a detailed model like this — with thin structure nicely recovered. Processed locally with PostShot using an NVIDIA RTX6000 Ada.

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Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu

3 days ago

Germany was a vibe. Closed out FMX having dinner with the creator of Houdini, the head of ILM and some really cool Disney Imagineers. Young me couldn’t possibly have imagined it. Now time to fly back state side, with many stories to share. Grateful af 🙏🏽

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Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu

3 days ago

@0interestrates Homie I was delving way before LLMs and now I literally can’t use the word without ppl thinking i didn’t write it 💀 😭

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Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu

4 days ago

Source: fxguide.com/fxfeatured/act… by @mikeseymour

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Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu

4 days ago

Remember that 'air head' video made with Sora? Turns out it used a ton of rotoscoping and manual VFX. A 'head' would pop back on, and the balloon colors would keep changing from generation to generation. TL;DR researchers and developers of generative AI tools really need to…

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Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu

5 days ago

where on earth is ilya?

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Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu

5 days ago

I grew up on these streets

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Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu

6 days ago

Another step towards the holodeck! @8Infinite8 is focused on the high end today, but at a fraction of the cost. Can’t wait till 4D volumetric capture is accessible to consumers. Perhaps this is the direction Apple’s ‘spatial media’ efforts will head?

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Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu

a week ago

Don’t worry y’all. AI will do your laundry and your dishes, so that you can do your art and writing — not just the other way round. Fighting the train of progress is a losing battle. Steering it in a desirable direction is the more productive choice.

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Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu

a week ago

Stuttgart, Germany here I come! 🚀 Excited for the @FMX_Conference. Besides FMX, what’s the one thing I shouldn’t miss in the city?

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Anil Seth @anilkseth

2 weeks ago

@TEDTalks @honorharger @scottbelsky @debbiemillman @refikanadol Very pleased to see @honorharger referencing the work of Harold Cohen from the 70s/80s to emphasise that AI (a much overused term) is also not new, nor is its application to art. Brings to mind Maggie Boden's seminal work on computational creativity interaliamag.org/articles/marga…

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Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu

a week ago

If you use vision (pixels only) for your 3D camera solve — you better have a higher shutter speed and blur-free footage to get good results! But AR on smartphones utilize non-image based sensors like your IMU to give you a rock solid track, like this 😍

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Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu

a week ago

New toys for capturing reality in immaculate 3D with LiDAR SLAM. It’s so fun seeing it build out a 3D representation of your space in real-time. The Lixel K1 captures 200,000 points per second and has a 36 megapixel panoramic camera. These puppies can also produce radiance…