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by smokel 967 days ago
Probably not, there is an impressive interactive 3D point cloud rendering, which only shows up after a few seconds. Perhaps you missed that?
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How many seconds? I see a discord button, and then some weird blob thing wobbling around. After 30 seconds I got bored of watching it.
30 seconds is a lot of time to stare at one thing. It sounds to me like it entranced you just as much as it did the others.

How long would you expect a single graphic to hold your attention before you can deem it impressive? Five minutes?

In that case you didn't miss anything. Weird wobbling blob thing is the "impressive interactive 3D point cloud".
You should be able to see the blob form models – perhaps there's some error when it runs on your system. It relies on floating-point textures which aren't supported everywhere

If you view this link https://lumalabs.ai/genie?s=1&d=-4, do you see the models more clearly?

If you _don't_ I'd be curious if any errors are reported in console

Yes with s=1?d=-4 the models are completely clear. I assume the semitransparent glittery look is intentional artistic choice."weird blob" weren't my words but I can imagine how someone could describe it that way considering that half of the time you see the transition animation during which it's much harder to recognize the object.