Recreation Rooms: Gabriele Romagnoli Explores Gaussian Splatting And Spatial Tooling
The creator behind the XR AI Spotlight Gabriele Romagnoli sent in a photo of the Recreation Room where they work.
I have that same Logitech MX keyboard. I’ve used four 3M Command Hooks underneath my desks to essentially create hidden docking bays for the keyboard that I can slip in and out of as needed. The keyboard can connect over Bluetooth to three different devices with the press of dedicated keys and this is incredibly useful for switching input between a Mac, PC and directly to a VR headset. The only problem with my strategy is that sometimes I forget the keyboard is hiding there under the desk. Overall, I find that a clean desk is necessary from time to time to explore apps like Pencil requiring a sheet of paper and classic pencil to learn how to draw.
Romagnoli tells me they keep the Quest and Vision Pro at the ready to ensure they can dive into a headset at a moment’s notice to test something out.
“A lot of my work revolves around trying experiences in a headset,” Romagnoli says. “If it is not something I can try or share about I just skip it because people see enough trailer and fake videos already.”
Romagnoli interviews various founders and makers at the intersection of XR and AI with particular interest in the toolchains building up around Gaussian Splatting — the idea that may ultimately be the key to cross-platform calling as spatial avatars that look like digital twins. The interviews are what the light, microphone and teleprompter setup are all for.
“The Vision Pro would basically be a paper weight if it wasn’t for Gaussian Splatting,” explains Romagnoli over email. “That is my main use case for the device.”
Even with every available digital tool at their disposal, Romagnoli finds themselves still organizing their tasks on paper with the pictured notebook.
“It helps me dump my brain and just feels satisfying to manually scratch things off,” they wrote over email.
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