# Gemini Omni

16 Hacker News commenters recommended Gemini Omni and 21 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Google's video model, praised for realistic, high-quality clips and quick low-resolution previews; critics point to physics and geometry errors and say it trails Seedance 2.0.

## Why people recommend it

- Strong video quality, realistic results (2 comments): "So it's really good, and we have reason to believe, never again, anything that happens in a video." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197556)) "Veo and omni simply were better than Sora" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470787))

## What people warn about

- Physics and geometry errors in videos (5 comments): "Such videos are essentially dreams: how it feels that the planks should move, not what equations of rigid body physics would compute." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198470)) "Classic 3d simulation artifact with boundary conditions. I remember for an assignment where I had to model liquid with rigid bodies" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202078)) "It gave me a video of where bricks suddenly disapper or morph into others" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198271))
- Trails Seedance 2.0 in performance (3 comments): "I can't find anything google omni flash does better than Seedance from running a handful of samples through the system." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197618)) "the performance of Gemini Omni Flash is still not as good as Seedance 2.0" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203210)) "Anyone who had used seedance 2.0 a bit can tell Gemini is a bit behind" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198929))
- Uncanny, robotic human figures (2 comments): "I'm still getting major uncanny valley from any of the videos featuring humans" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470174)) "Looks very robotic / lifeless for me. And the sound-mixing is very off." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470271))
- Video output limited; no audio sync (2 comments): "Omni Flash, last I tried and read the docs, is video and text out on consumer and prosumer but video out only on GCP." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820339)) "it (and this one) can't do the one practical thing I want - Sync generated video to provided pre-existing audio" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470955))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Seedance 2.0](https://hackerapproved.com/p/seedance-2-5.md): 68 recommend
- [MiniMax H3](https://hackerapproved.com/p/minimax-h3.md): 29 recommend
- [Google Veo](https://hackerapproved.com/p/veo.md): 20 recommend
- [Wan video model](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wan-2-2.md): 15 recommend
- [Kling AI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kling.md): 14 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Gemini Omni", https://hackerapproved.com/p/gemini-omni/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).