🎉 PSA Looking Glass Go is on sale for $99 USD! Wowza.. go get 'em! These are fantastic little personal holographic displays. checkout.lookingglassfactory…

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Today, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Shapefile and 3D model import support on Google Earth. Plus, we’ve also added elevation profiles to the measure tool just for… good measure! goo.gle/4w1MPC0 You’ve made it clear. You want to be able to bring more of your data and models to Google Earth’s real-world canvas. We're excited to take the next step in delivering on that promise with these new features: 🔶 Shapefiles (SHP): Render industry-standard geospatial data as performant, cloud-native layers. 💡 3D Models (GLB): Place custom architectural mock-ups, massings, and more in a visually rich context. 🗻 Elevation Profiles: View detailed terrain data in the measure tool you already know and love. These new features are live now on Google Earth!

Heads up: there are some changes coming to LichtFeld Studio. LichtFeld is growing quite a lot, but contributions are not. In fact, besides the two corporate contributors and one bronze sponsor, there is less than $100 on average contributed per month. There were 10,000 downloads in the last 30 days, and nobody contributed anything financially back to the project. Not a single dollar. I cannot support my living on that basis. Given the amount of work I am putting into this project, and it is a lot, often easily 60 hours a week, to provide a state-of-the-art, self-contained 3D reconstruction suite that is used by businesses around the world, this situation is no longer sustainable. The idea was to grow it together, but at the moment it is mainly being used without enough support in return. If every user had contributed only $10, the continuation of the project would have been secured. I have asked for that quite often. I like sharing my knowledge, but I cannot sustain it under these circumstances. Going forward, there will not be any free binaries provided anymore. I created a portal at portal.lichtfeld.io which will give access to daily binaries after registration and donation. This will hopefully help finance the development and maybe even allow me to pay someone in addition. If you cannot afford it, you can still put in the work and build it from source. There are no restrictions. I am aware that people like to work around something like this, and they certainly will. But in the end, that simply means that my work on this project will be discontinued at some point. Btw, after payment an invoice will be automatically issued!

Wow, Gaussian Splat pushed to the max. Amazing work! 🤩

🎉 Monocle Prime has new some pretty awesome new editing tools! ✏️❤️

This is outstanding work! Well done @lucasmaes_ !

Looking Glass makes hands-down the most awesome 3D display tech possible. You can just look at their displays and it appears in stunning 3D. No glasses, works with crowds, just works. This is tech that will last the ages. So cool. 😍

Met so many amazing people at the two @TokyoAI_JP events this past week. It's filled with amazing energy and brilliant people. Thank you Ilya for organizing such amazing events. See more at tokyoai.jp/

Tokyo Node Sometimes you just need to party. 🕺

This is wild. One thing I hated about coding was the pain of dealing with obscure documentation, refactoring, and figuring out why the tools aren't doing what you want them to do. For the most part now I'm working out arch changes, and stay in the flow longer. I love it.

Finding myself going back to RSS/Atom feeds a lot more recently. There's a lot more higher quality longform and a lot less slop intended to provoke. Any product that happens to look a bit different today but that has fundamentally the same incentive structures will eventually converge to the same black hole at the center of gravity well. We should bring back RSS - it's open, pervasive, hackable. Download a client, e.g. NetNewsWire (or vibe code one) Cold start: example of getting off the ground, here is a list of 92 RSS feeds of blogs that were most popular on HN in 2025: gist.github.com/emschwartz/e… Works great and you will lose a lot fewer brain cells. I don't know, something has to change.

Our short film Dear Upstairs Neighbors is previewing at @sundancefest. 🎬 It’s a story about noisy neighbors, but behind the scenes, it’s about solving a huge challenge in generative AI: control. Developed by Pixar alumni, an Academy Award winner, researchers, and engineers, here’s how it came together. 🎨

📢 We introduce PPISP, a physically plausible camera module for Gaussian Splatting that reduces floaters under varying appearance and predicts camera corrections for novel views such that they closely match what a real camera would output. #CV #3DGS

We're helping AI to see the 3D world in motion as humans do. 🌐 Enter D4RT: a unified model that turns video into 4D representations faster than previous methods - enabling it to understand space and time. This is how it works 🧵

🎉 Huge year of amazing Monocle 3D scans and stories. I'm really proud of what our team pulled off this past year. The system is looking stronger than ever, with more awesome tech coming in 2026.

🎍🎉 Happy New Year everyone! 🥳 Wishing for a fulfilling and joy filled 2026 for you all. 🇯🇵🇨🇦

3D Gingerbread House 3D scanned with Monocle Prime App. Check out monocle3d.com/news for more. #monocle3d #Christmas #gingerbreadhouse #ar #3dscanning

Just in time for Christmas! Enjoy a couple little Christmas themed projects we cooked up this winter. 3D Printing a Snowman (from the video!) monocle3d.com/tutorials/tuto… How to make an AR Christmas Card monocle3d.com/tutorials/tuto… This was so fun to produce. Enjoy!