Instant-NGP adds VR Functionality

Instant NeRF mastermind and NeRF celebrity, Thomas Müller announced on his Linkedin VR functionality into Instant-NGP. This represents another leap forward in what's been an extremely exciting beginning to the year for NeRFs. Müller demonstrated one of the best use cases of NeRF, memory re-visitation. In order to add the functionality, head to the NV Labs Github!

Müller revisiting a memory coding with friends on vacation

Now that people are able to view NeRFs in VR, it will be up to their imagination on what to capture. To that point, NVIDIA AI also announced a new Instant-NeRF VR contest that is live as of January 31st through March 3rd, 2023. The winner will receive a NVIDIA 3090 ti graphics card, with its 24gb of VRAM is powerful enough to handle most NeRFs.