Tools and platforms for creating, streaming, and interacting with virtual environments, from game engines to digital twins.
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At Connect 2025, Meta doubled down on its vision for AI-powered worldbuilding in VR. The company highlighted a stack of tools, including an AI-driven editor, a new game engine, and a capture tool, aimed at making immersive creation as simple as describing a scene or scanning a space.
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Meta made some major announcements today as part of Mark Zuckerberg's keynote at its largest annual event, Connect. Zuckerberg framed his keynote around the three technologies Meta is focusing on as it reinvents itself for the era of spatial computing, including glasses, AI, and virtual reality.
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Luminary Cloud has raised $72 million in Series B funding to grow its Physics AI platform. The round was led by N47, previously known as Next47, with participation from Sutter Hill Ventures and NVentures, the investment arm of NVIDIA.
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Copresence's AI-powered avatar creation platform has moved out of beta, making it possible for anyone to create an avatar with just a smartphone. Already trusted by leading gaming and technology companies, the platform is designed to deliver production-ready results in minutes.
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Agora and Banuba are collaborating to bring AI-powered augmented reality features to live video. The companies aim to equip developers, broadcasters, and media platforms with tools for creating more interactive and expressive real-time experiences.
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Aechelon Technology and its partners have launched Project Orbion, a new system that turns real-world data into a live digital twin of the Earth. By combining satellite imagery, AI, and sensor feeds into a dynamic 3D model, the platform is built to support situational awareness
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Khronos Group, OGC, Esri, Cesium (Bentley), and Niantic Spatial have added 3D Gaussian splat support to the glTF asset format.
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Tripo has launched version 3.0 of its core 3D foundation model. The release boosts asset fidelity and creative control while reducing manual cleanup, positioning Tripo Studio as a full-stack tool for production-ready 3D content.
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Adobe has introduced Substance 3D Reviewer, a new tool built with Meta to help teams review 3D product models in immersive environments. Optimized for Meta Quest headsets, it allows users to view designs at full scale in VR or in a desktop browser.
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Meta has expanded its GenAI toolkit for Horizon Worlds. Environment Generation is now live, letting creators build entire 3D scenes with a text prompt. Meta also previewed fully-embodied NPCs that respond to player voice input and interact dynamically inside virtual worlds.
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IBM and NASA have released Surya, a digital twin of the Sun built from nine years of imagery and magnetic data collected by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory. The open-source model simulates the Sun’s behavior to help forecast solar storms
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Unity 6.2 is now available as a production-supported release, with two major updates: Unity AI Beta is built into the Editor, and Android XR tools are now verified. The company says the release delivers on its goal to make the engine faster, more stable, and easier to use across platforms.