Apple researchers have created an AI model that reconstructs a 3D object from a single image, while keeping reflections, highlights, and other effects consistent across different viewing angles. Here ...

Abstract: Volumetric images often encapsulate critical information, making it essential to employ lossless compression to preserve data integrity. Although various learned methods have demonstrated ...

Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs has secured a $200 million investment from software design giant Autodesk as part of a larger $1 billion round from backers, including AMD, Emerson Collective, Fidelity, Nvidia ...

Project Genie allows people outside of Google to try the company's Genie 3 world model. (Google) This past summer, Google DeepMind debuted Genie 3. It’s what’s known as a world world, an AI system ...

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet. “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in ...

3D scanning technology is being used to examine and replicate classic works of art. It's raising some ethical questions about what it means to preserve authenticity and democratize access in an age ...

What if you could turn a simple photo into a fully realized 3D model, all without spending a dime? Below, Matthew Berman takes you through how SAM 3D, an open source platform from Meta, is ...

In a unique partnership between the Intrepid Museum and FARO Technologies, one of America's most historic aircraft carriers has been digitally preserved with millimeter-level precision, creating a ...

A high-resolution 3D model of Rano Raraku shows that the moai were created in many distinct carving zones. Instead of a top-down system, the statues appear to have been produced by separate family ...

SHINING 3D brought its latest wireless 3D scanning technologies to two major international stages this November, exhibiting at Formnext 2025 in Frankfurt and the Dubai Airshow. The dual presence is ...

Marble can reconstruct, generate, and simulate 3D worlds—think of it as a type of “world model.” In an interview with Fast Company, Li describes world models as a “significant” evolution of the ...