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0 37 0 Comment on Netflix VOID — The First Open Object-Eraser That Deletes the Shadow, the Reflection, and the Domino It Knocked Over
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Netflix VOID — The First Open Object-Eraser That Deletes the Shadow, the Reflection, and the Domino It Knocked Over

Erasing a person from a video clip has been a solved-ish problem for years. Erasing the shadow…

Issanou 23 May 2026
0 53 0 Comment on Blender Just Said No to Gen-AI in the Core — And Turned an Anthropic Donation Into a Governance Win
Blender Just Said No to Gen-AI in the Core — And Turned an Anthropic Donation Into a Governance Win Blender Just Said No to Gen-AI in the Core — And Turned an Anthropic Donation Into a Governance Win Blender Just Said No to Gen-AI in the Core — And Turned an Anthropic Donation Into a Governance Win Blender Just Said No to Gen-AI in the Core — And Turned an Anthropic Donation Into a Governance Win

Blender Just Said No to Gen-AI in the Core — And Turned an Anthropic Donation Into a Governance Win

Hook While every other tool in our toolbox is racing to bolt a generative-AI button onto its…

Issanou 21 May 2026
0 51 0 Comment on Unity AI Is Live in Open Beta — Prompt-to-Game Just Moved Into Every Unity 6 Editor
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Unity AI Is Live in Open Beta — Prompt-to-Game Just Moved Into Every Unity 6 Editor

Hook Unity just flipped the switch on the thing it has been teasing all year: as of…

Issanou 21 May 2026
0 54 0 Comment on MetaHuman 5.8 — Epic Just Bridged the AI 3D Pipeline and Built a Crowd Engine in the Same Drop
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MetaHuman 5.8 — Epic Just Bridged the AI 3D Pipeline and Built a Crowd Engine in the Same Drop

On May 12, Epic dropped MetaHuman 5.8 Preview alongside Unreal Engine 5.8. Two features change the calculus…

Issanou 20 May 2026
0 37 0 Comment on Esri Site Scan May 2026 — The Industry That Owns Every Map on Earth Just Made Gaussian Splats a Cloud Button
Esri Site Scan May 2026 — The Industry That Owns Every Map on Earth Just Made Gaussian Splats a Cloud Button Esri Site Scan May 2026 — The Industry That Owns Every Map on Earth Just Made Gaussian Splats a Cloud Button Esri Site Scan May 2026 — The Industry That Owns Every Map on Earth Just Made Gaussian Splats a Cloud Button Esri Site Scan May 2026 — The Industry That Owns Every Map on Earth Just Made Gaussian Splats a Cloud Button

Esri Site Scan May 2026 — The Industry That Owns Every Map on Earth Just Made Gaussian Splats a Cloud Button

Esri just shipped cloud Gaussian Splat generation inside Site Scan for ArcGIS. Fly the drone, hit a…

Issanou 18 May 2026
0 56 0 Comment on Houdini-gsplat — A Sydney VFX Lab Just Bolted Native Gaussian Splats Into Solaris, MIT Licensed
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Houdini-gsplat — A Sydney VFX Lab Just Bolted Native Gaussian Splats Into Solaris, MIT Licensed

Gaussian Splatting in Houdini used to mean one thing: dump your PLY through GSOPs, instance it in…

Issanou 17 May 2026
0 52 0 Comment on Postshot V1.1 — Jawset Just Put a VR Headset Inside Your Splat Editor
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Postshot V1.1 — Jawset Just Put a VR Headset Inside Your Splat Editor

Jawset just shipped Postshot V1.1, and they did something nobody else in the Gaussian splatting space has…

Issanou 16 May 2026
0 48 0 Comment on Varjo Teleport Autopilot — Draw a Polygon, Wait Three Hours, Get a 100-Million-Splat Neighborhood
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Varjo Teleport Autopilot — Draw a Polygon, Wait Three Hours, Get a 100-Million-Splat Neighborhood

Finland’s most famous XR company just turned drone-based 3D capture into a four-click cloud service. Varjo Teleport’s…

Issanou 15 May 2026
0 55 0 Comment on Claude Just Moved Into Blender, SketchUp, and Fusion — The Era of the AI Browser Tab Is Over
Claude Just Moved Into Blender, SketchUp, and Fusion — The Era of the AI Browser Tab Is Over Claude Just Moved Into Blender, SketchUp, and Fusion — The Era of the AI Browser Tab Is Over Claude Just Moved Into Blender, SketchUp, and Fusion — The Era of the AI Browser Tab Is Over Claude Just Moved Into Blender, SketchUp, and Fusion — The Era of the AI Browser Tab Is Over

Claude Just Moved Into Blender, SketchUp, and Fusion — The Era of the AI Browser Tab Is Over

For two years, every “AI for 3D” headline ended the same way: open a browser, paste a…

Issanou 14 May 2026
0 80 0 Comment on PIX4Dmatic Pro Just Shipped Gaussian Splatting — Photogrammetry’s 800-Pound Gorilla Calls 3DGS Production-Ready
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PIX4Dmatic Pro Just Shipped Gaussian Splatting — Photogrammetry’s 800-Pound Gorilla Calls 3DGS Production-Ready

PIX4D just shipped Gaussian Splatting inside PIX4Dmatic Pro. If that sentence reads like a routine release note,…

Issanou 14 May 2026