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AI experiments, AI+Art crossovers, and curated external articles about artificial intelligence and creative technology.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Spatial Fields 1.3 — NVIDIA’s Ray-Traceable Splats Just Landed on Your iPhone, Vision Pro, and Apple TV
One small dev shop in Brooklyn just pulled off a quiet miracle. Spatial Fields 1.3, the only…