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Immersive Training · September 7, 2026
Apple Vision Pro Helps Astronauts Revisit Their Underwater Training
Apple is filming spacewalk practice in immersive video, giving astronauts and their support teams a way to review each session in 3D.
AI Creation · September 6, 2026
Runway’s New AI Generates Worlds as You Play
GWM Worlds 2 makes AI-generated video interactive, creating each moment in response to your actions.
Gaussian splats · September 4, 2026
Scenery Is Adding Gaussian Splats to Its App Across Apple Platforms
Scenery says the feature will arrive with the public releases of iOS 27, macOS 27, and visionOS 27. Scripts can update hundreds of thousands of splats per frame.
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3D scanning · September 1, 2026
XGRIDS Turns Your iPhone Into a 3D Spatial Camera
The LCC Scan app builds explorable 3D scenes right on your iPhone, without a cloud upload or server queue.
World models · September 1, 2026
World Labs’ Atlas Combines World Creation, Capture, and Simulation
One model generates camera-controlled video, reconstructs explorable 3D scenes, and reframes motion captured with as few as three cameras.
Mosaic Meridian 2 · August 28, 2026
Mosaic Launches Meridian 2 Mobile Mapping System for One-Person Crews
The roof-mounted rig combines a 91.2-megapixel 360-degree camera, 32-channel lidar, and survey-grade positioning, then packs into two small cases for travel.
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August 2026
Surflo · August 26, 2026
Surflo Turns Multiple Photos Into One Clean 3D Surface
The research model compresses unposed views into one fixed state, then decodes a point cloud or mesh at the resolution a creator needs.
Mac mini and Mac Studio · August 25, 2026
Apple Brings M6 to Mac mini and M5 Ultra to Mac Studio
Apple’s compact desktops add faster chips, more memory, and new ways to connect several Macs for demanding local AI work.
URSee · August 24, 2026
URSee Turns Apple Vision Pro Into a Live Immersive Camera Monitor
The visionOS app places a Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive feed inside a calibrated 3D dome, using direct wired capture or network streams from a Mac.
AirVis Studio · August 21, 2026
AirVis Studio Creates Gaussian Splats Locally for Free
AirVis Studio processes photos, standard video, and 360 video into 3D scenes directly on Apple-silicon Macs and Windows PCs.
NavVis IVION 12 · August 21, 2026
NavVis Brings Walkable Gaussian Splats to Its Laser-Scanning Platform
IVION 12 lets MLX customers explore beta splat views in a browser, then measure the same scene against the underlying point cloud.
4DAnyone · August 20, 2026
4DAnyone Turns One Video Into a Moving 3D Person
The research system generates 16 synchronized views, then builds a free-viewpoint Gaussian-splat scene without a camera rig, known lens settings, or known camera positions.
Gaussian Splatting · August 17, 2026
The NBA Is Experimenting With 4D Gaussian Splats
Peripheral Labs worked with the Raptors at NBA Summer League, showing how real basketball can become a free-moving 3D scene.
Gaussian Splatting · August 17, 2026
360 Gaussian Pro Turns 360 Video Into 3D Splats Entirely on Your PC
The Windows app extracts, masks, aligns, and trains footage locally, with camera support ranging from Insta360 to DJI.
AI Video · August 17, 2026
CrossView Warp Turns One Video Angle Into a Camera Orbit
The open-source ComfyUI tool uses keyframes and AI to generate a new viewpoint while the action keeps moving.
4D Gaussian Splatting · August 15, 2026
Michael Rubloff and 4DV.ai Made an 11-Minute Gaussian Splatting Video
The companion WebXR experience turns selected clips into moving places you can step inside.
AI-made 3D · August 12, 2026
Meshy 7 Is Now Available and Actually Pretty Impressive
We tested Meshy 7 with our own images. The detailed, fully rotatable results show how far image-to-3D generation has come.
Gaussian splats · August 12, 2026
Intangible’s Browser-Based 3D Studio Gains Gaussian Splat Support
The update lets creators place scans of real places beside other 3D objects and move a camera through the scene.
Insta360 X6 · August 12, 2026
Insta360 X6 Now Available With 8K50 and Spatial Capture
The $699.99 camera adds larger sensors, 120MP photos, longer 8K recording, and an easier way to create Gaussian splats.
Apple Vision Pro and AI · August 11, 2026
Grok Bot’s iOS App Runs on Apple Vision Pro
Grok Bot’s cloud agents can work across apps, learn routines, and keep going after you step away.
AI-made 3D · August 11, 2026
Tencent’s WorldClaw Builds an Editable 3D World From One Prompt
AI agents plan the terrain, build separate textured objects, and use Blender to inspect and repair the finished scene.
Insta360 X6 · August 7, 2026
Insta360 X6 Will Turn 360 Recordings Into Gaussian Splats
The new Spatial Capture feature captures a place with the X6, then Insta360’s app turns the recording into an explorable 3D scene.
Apple Vision Pro apps · August 6, 2026
Mission Stratos takes Vision Pro 32 kilometers above Earth
The Arluma360 tour is built from footage captured with an 11K 360-degree camera during a 14-hour scientific balloon flight over Canada.
July 2026
Apple Vision Pro · July 31, 2026
Apple Vision Pro let Jon Favreau preview Star Wars at IMAX scale
He and ILM’s John Knoll walked through virtual sets before construction and checked how each shot would fill the giant screen.
Apple Immersive Video · July 30, 2026
Apple Vision Pro can now take you inside the Tennessee Aquarium.
The new immersive film visits the aquarium’s animals and introduces the people working to protect water and wildlife across the Southeast.
Generative AI · July 30, 2026
Google Earth can now reimagine any place with AI.
Create image starts with the map on screen. AI turns it into a new scene that you can edit and save.
Visual positioning · July 28, 2026
AI-powered visual positioning can find you from just one photo.
MultiSet matched an ordinary photo against a 3D scan of Austin. The visible scene led it back to the camera’s exact position.
Spatial AI · July 27, 2026
InSpatio turns one video into a moving 4D Gaussian scene.
The research preview creates new camera angles from one video clip, without a multi-camera setup.
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