Google's "free to try" AI Studio

Google AI Studio has image generation, video generation and more, in addition to text chat. But even Google's Gemini does not know this:) 

Unless we enable "auto-save" in the settings (I guess) our prompts are not saved in History.

Choosing the model Gemini2.0 Flash (image generation)

"Create an image of a sunset over a sandy beach" - result is below.

Not bad.

By clicking the Video generation tab, Veo 2 generated the following videos on the respective prompts. Not very good, but it's a good start. And the best part is that it's free. And it took less than a minute to generate.

"Create a video of overcast clouds over sunset on a sandy beach" - resulted in a timelapse-style video below:

"Generate a 360 degree equirectangular video of sunset over a beach" resulted in:

Since this was not really an equirectangular 360 degree video, tried by running the same prompt again. Then it gave:

 Refining my prompt, changed it to "Generate a VR360 equirectangular video of sunset over a beach" which resulted in this:

I didn't want any human beings or birds in the video, so I tried adding a negative prompt of birds, men, women - and the same prompt as above. But the result still had this woman,

All right. Maybe it will do better when given an image to work with. So, I uploaded the sunset image earlier generated with Gemini 2.0 Flash, and gave the prompt "Generate a VR360 equirectangular video from this image by panning left to right."

But it did not pan, instead added birds!

In summary, a long way to go. But since it's fast and free (the video generation did not specify any queries per day limits, but the Gemini models did specify 1500 requests per day and so on in the free tier), we can definitely try out some stuff. And perhaps upscale locally or with google colab.