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FWIW it looks there’s now a demand surge with the introduction of the new cheap cybertruck variant. delivery dates pushed out to the fall of 2026.

That was an artificial boost created by setting a time-limit for a low price. There were ten days to buy at the price, then they put it back up. [1]

[1] https://electrek.co/2026/03/01/tesla-cybertruck-awd-price-in...

EDIT: grammar


What's an artificial boost? Sounds like you're describing a sale.

Look up what their production targets were and compare that to their sales. A small temporary demand surge isn't going to be enough to chew through their current inventory, let alone keep the production lines busy.

A push on delivery dates is as likely to mean production issues as it is an influx of interest.

I wish they would also publish the source images used to generate the 3D representation so people can recreate with other techniques.

I'll be around but don't have a GDC pass. Any interesting AI + gaming meetups or side-events I should go?

What's your favorite game of this type?

It definitely feels less fun. Harder to get attribution, build a reputation, a community… Common driving forces for people to contribute to open source.


AI mediation between end dev and open source definitely reduces the incentives for maintainers that look to build community, visibility, reputation, collaborate with others… I also love AI so not sure what the solution could be.


It’s a point cloud where each point is a semitransparent blob that can have a view dependent color: color changes depending on direction you look at them. Allowing to capture reflections, iridescence…

You generate the point clouds from multiple images of a scene or an object and some machine learning magic


I’m really curious to see what you are cooking. What field are you in?


I’ve been in XR for a decade and there’s a big gap between people that make the headsets and those that use them. The actual use cases are too niche for the big companies to care long term so they have to invent narratives that don’t manifest. IMO, Valve focusing a headset in the best possible gaming experience is the only one well positioned for an honest play in the space.


99.9% is based on Chromium. Would have taken ages to ship otherwise. It's great to see how much Chromium has lowered the bar for people to be able to ship new browsers.


They used Claude code to write it.


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