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World models are AI systems that accurately simulate physical reality. How objects move and collide, for example, or how light behaves, or liquid flows. Google DeepMind recently released the astonishing new Genie 3 model; Demis Hassabis calls world models a crucial part of anything we can call true AGI. OpenAI is rumoured to be building a rival. Yann LeCun — Meta's AI chief for years — has left the company to launch his own world model startup.
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NVIDIA and Apple’s collaboration brings native integration of NVIDIA CloudXR 6.0 to visionOS, securely delivering NVIDIA RTX-powered simulators and professional 3D graphics applications — like Immersive for Autodesk VRED on Innoactive’s XR streaming solutions — to Apple Vision Pro.
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Google has introduced one of the most significant updates to Google Maps in more than a decade. The update brings two major features: Ask Maps, an AI-powered conversational assistant, and Immersive Navigation, a new 3D navigation system designed to make directions clearer and more intuitive. Together, these technologies aim to transform Google Maps from a simple navigation tool into a smarter travel and exploration platform powered by artificial intelligence.
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South Korea-based XR company NP Inc showed off a unique solution to combat employee fatigue at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this week, combining a small pod with a VR headset.
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Introducing Wonder 3D, a new generative AI model in Autodesk Flow Studio – built to help you move from imagination to 3D faster than ever.
You can now quickly generate 3D characters or objects—from a simple text prompt or a reference image. Then refine, remix, and reuse them across your projects. Plus, everything stays flexible, so you can create quickly, iterate confidently, and move your work seamlessly into 3D pipelines, game engines, or 3D printing software.
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A few months back Altera launched Project Sid (its name is a hat tip to Sid Meier, the creator of the iconic Civilisation video game). They poured 1,000 autonomous AI agents into a Minecraft world, and sat back to watch what unfolded.
Altera calls this world, ‘the first agent-based civilisation’. Yang and his colleagues watched as the agents learned to harness the natural resources around them, developed their own economy, and even evolved a culture and religion.
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The word metaverse did not originate in a corporate rebrand, a product roadmap, or a quarterly earnings call. It entered our cultural vocabulary in 1992, in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, as a speculative description of the future of virtual worlds.
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The technology is certainly there. WebXR is the standard API for immersive experiences on the web, and frameworks like A-Frame provide ready-to-use XR components, covering inputs, primitives, teleportation, gestures and so on. Since AI coding tools can already interact with external libraries, I realized I only needed to provide the intent and guide the AI toward the spatial outcome I wanted.
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The first time we handed our AR demo to a stranger, she did what any sensible person would do, she watched the world around. The room was busy, reflections from a window, her face moving in and out of light, and our neat row of icons behaved like extras, present, but not useful. In my notes I wrote a single line “if the room is our scene, the interface must be part of it not just a heads up display”.
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The glasses serve various purposes, with some using XR to create a portable desktop setup, and others competing with Meta's Ray-Bans, which pack cameras and voice assistants into a lightweight form factor. ZDNET's smart glasses experts have either covered the news or gone hands-on with many of them.
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