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San Francisco-based startupWorld Labshas unveiled a new platform focused on what it calls Large World Models (LWMs).
These worlds are completely built up from a single image.
They are already available to play with on the World Labs website with more to come in the future.
Creating 3D worlds with AI is not a new concept.
Wevereported in the paston several attempts to transition away from flat 2D universes.
Suddenly its much easier to see a potential Holodeck future for us all.
Billed as a large-scale foundation world model, Genie 2 is being pitched towards gaming and agentic AI applications.
Again working from a single image, the new Google technology can create 720p fully interactive resolution environments.
This may be the first real indication that were moving towards the arrival of genuinely immersive worlds.
The kind of work being done here by World Labs and Google show how that might look.
Even small homebrew projects likeHalo VRshow what’s possible for the genre in the future.
Right now its an open field, and anyones guess whos going to come out on top.
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