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Hyper3D just launched WorldGen, and it takes 3D generation from single assets to full scenes. From one image, it builds a structured 3D scene where every important object is its own editable asset. You can move it, replace it, edit it, and interact with it. How it works: 1.... Upload a scene image 2. WorldGen identifies the objects 3. Generate the full scene with Max Gen and walk around with WASD 4. Select any object and move, delete, replace, or regenerate it with Hyper3D Rodin 5. Click "Interactive" to see physical properties 6. Export to Blender, Unity, or UE It pairs Rodin's independent Mesh assets with 3D Gaussian Splatting for the environment, and predicts position, scale, collision, mass, and friction. Built for embodied AI training, film pre-viz with video models like Seedance 2.5, game dev, and XR. From DeemosTech, whose CAST research won a Best Paper Award at SIGGRAPH 2025. Try Hyper3D WorldGen: Get updates Hyper3D by Deemos: 14-day Free Trial Code: 35TLO1MS #Hyper3D #DeemosTech #Rodin #WorldGen #AI3Dshow more

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🥹🌻2 days ago

3D just got smarter

Hitilafu2 days ago

Thanks for the support! Try it here:

João_KE2 days ago

Not just a static view. The output is a structured scene you can edit, simulate, and interact with.

.2 days ago

This looks amazing

agy lizy2 days ago

This is the future

Sheriee🌟2 days ago

Rodin handles the individual assets, so each one has complete geometry.

Himself2 days ago

The editing is fire

Singapore Premium Tickets 🇸🇬2 days ago

For film, it works like a 3D director's stage. Set the scene, camera, and blocking, then hand it to a video model like Seedance 2.5.

🖤Its_Linnet❤️Lin💜2 days ago

For embodied AI, it generates SimReady assets from a single real world photo, and you can quickly vary layout, lighting, and obstacles.

Poppy2 days ago

Game dev just got easier

Mwangi2 days ago

The team behind it, DeemosTech, won a Best Paper Award at SIGGRAPH 2025 for CAST.

z41 day ago

It also works for XR, like turning one image into a space you can explore on devices like Apple Vision Pro.

Tweeds2 days ago

Very impressive tech

ZACK™️💎2 days ago

Turning one image into a full 3D scene is impressive

*Tycoon*2 days ago

Hyper3D is cooking

s.loyne2 days ago

One image to a world

IGOR2 days ago

Huge potential here

Mwangi2 days ago

AI 3D is moving fast

Venasio 💫2 days ago

It starts from a single image. Indoor, street view, natural view, and complex scenes all work as input.

New Dawn2 days ago

Only three commercial companies got that award in 2025: Google, Meta, and DeemosTech.

darkhumour1 day ago

For game dev, it cuts the time spent on initial modeling and scene assembly.

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🔥 img2threejs × GPT-6 Astra × Hyper3D Live showcase: This is probably one of the most commercially valuable workflows I’ve tested so far. Image → Hyper3D → img2threejs → GPT-6 Astra → Interactive Three.js experience. 1/ Hyper3D handles the 3D reconstruction. 2/ img2threejs turns that result into a structured workflow that an AI coding model can actually work with. 3/ And GPT-6 Astra follows the img2threejs pipeline - turning the reconstructed asset into a structured, editable, and interactive Three.js experience with animation, VFX, lighting, and application logic. The important part isn’t just generating a 3D model, It’s what happens after the model exists. Instead of ending with a static asset, you can continue building around it with code: → Games → Interactive product experiences → 3D websites → Character showcases → Virtual worlds → Rapid prototypes 3D generation becomes the beginning of the workflow - not the final output. And when you combine high-quality reconstruction with an AI model capable of understanding and building the surrounding experience, the path from image → 3D → usable product becomes dramatically shorter. This is exactly the direction I want to push img2threejs. More experiments with OpenAI GPT-6 Astra × Hyper3D by Deemos are coming this month. 👨‍🍳

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21,406 views • 3 months ago

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62,768 views • 3 years ago

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26,513 views • 20 days ago

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61,232 views • 1 year ago

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180,963 views • 8 months ago

WOW. 😳 Apple just quietly won the 3D maps war at WWDC. Gaussian Splatting is coming to Apple Maps Flyover this fall. Apple Maps Flyover covers 300+ cities. Until yesterday, every single one was built on standard drone photogrammetry. The technology captures photos from the air and reconstructs 3D geometry from them. Gaussian Splatting does not reconstruct geometry. It represents the scene as millions of tiny 3D ellipsoids, each one carrying its own color and opacity information based on how light actually behaves in that location. The output is not a mesh model. It is a field of light. When you move through it, it does not crumble at the edges. The detail holds because it was never geometry to begin with. Apple has been hiring for this for years. Their SHARP model, published in research last year, generates photorealistic 3D scenes from a single image in under a second. Google has more sensor data than anyone. More Street View cars, more satellites, more capture history. On navigation accuracy and geodata depth, Google Maps is still ahead by most measures. But fidelity in 3D city rendering is a different competition, and Apple just set a bar in that. Most people will experience this in the fall without knowing the name of the technology. They will open Flyover, look at a city they know, and notice it looks different. Real, not rendered. That is the moment Gaussian Splatting stops being a research term and becomes something a billion people use. Bookmark this. It will look prescient by October.

WOW. 😳 Apple just quietly won the 3D maps war at WWDC. Gaussian Splatting is coming to Apple Maps Flyover this fall. Apple Maps Flyover covers 300+ cities. Until yesterday, every single one was built on standard drone photogrammetry. The technology captures photos from the air and reconstructs 3D geometry from them. Gaussian Splatting does not reconstruct geometry. It represents the scene as millions of tiny 3D ellipsoids, each one carrying its own color and opacity information based on how light actually behaves in that location. The output is not a mesh model. It is a field of light. When you move through it, it does not crumble at the edges. The detail holds because it was never geometry to begin with. Apple has been hiring for this for years. Their SHARP model, published in research last year, generates photorealistic 3D scenes from a single image in under a second. Google has more sensor data than anyone. More Street View cars, more satellites, more capture history. On navigation accuracy and geodata depth, Google Maps is still ahead by most measures. But fidelity in 3D city rendering is a different competition, and Apple just set a bar in that. Most people will experience this in the fall without knowing the name of the technology. They will open Flyover, look at a city they know, and notice it looks different. Real, not rendered. That is the moment Gaussian Splatting stops being a research term and becomes something a billion people use. Bookmark this. It will look prescient by October.

Shruti

19,832 views • 3 months ago

I plugged ChatGPT Luna 5.6 and Claude Opus 5 into Blender through MCP, and one of them is one-shotting entire 3D scenes now. Top is Luna 5.6 in fast mode modeling ship cannons with a firing animation. Watching the scene grow mesh by mesh in real time is a separate kind of dopamine. Bottom is Opus 5 building a full carriage scene with terrain, rocks and lighting. This one is simply built for 3D -- the whole thing from a single prompt with zero retries and zero corrections. The entire bridge is one open-source repo, no Python and no modeling skills required: > The repo is with 16.9k stars under MIT license. > It works with any model -- Claude, GPT, Cursor, any MCP client. > The model sees your scene through a live socket and edits it in real time. A year ago this workflow didn't exist, and now the gap between an idea and a rendered 3D scene is one prompt. Save this one -- you will come back for the repo ↓

I plugged ChatGPT Luna 5.6 and Claude Opus 5 into Blender through MCP, and one of them is one-shotting entire 3D scenes now. Top is Luna 5.6 in fast mode modeling ship cannons with a firing animation. Watching the scene grow mesh by mesh in real time is a separate kind of dopamine. Bottom is Opus 5 building a full carriage scene with terrain, rocks and lighting. This one is simply built for 3D -- the whole thing from a single prompt with zero retries and zero corrections. The entire bridge is one open-source repo, no Python and no modeling skills required: > The repo is with 16.9k stars under MIT license. > It works with any model -- Claude, GPT, Cursor, any MCP client. > The model sees your scene through a live socket and edits it in real time. A year ago this workflow didn't exist, and now the gap between an idea and a rendered 3D scene is one prompt. Save this one -- you will come back for the repo ↓

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150,102 views • 2 months ago