Rocket science? 3D printing soft matter in zero gravity

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

ShapeR Uses Clever AI To Rebuild Reality One 3-D Object At A Time

The new AI-based graphics tool bridges the gap between perfect imaging of objects in lab environments and capturing messy ...
Inkbot Design

Tactile Maximalism: The Future of Digital Tactility

Flat design is killing conversion rates and boring your customers. Stop losing money on invisible buttons. Switch to Tactile Maximalism in 2026 now.
The Armenian Weekly

Through metal and spirit: The birth of Ani Hovak’s ‘Paradise Birds’

Ani Hovak is a musician by profession, having graduated from the flute department of the Yerevan State Conservatory. A multi-talented artist — flutist, singer and painter — she is best known for ...
Engadget

Google's Project Genie lets you create your own 3D interactive worlds

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 ...
AppleInsider

Apple's AI & ML research papers show instant 3D image conversion, more

Apple continues to focus on AI-powered image modification, with new studies detailing evaluation frameworks and an AI model that can turn 2D images into 3D scenes in a second. Here's what the ...
Wired

An AI Dark Horse Is Rewriting the Rules of Game Design

The video game Valorant, a fast-paced team-based shooter, has recently become a testing ground for a promising new direction in artificial intelligence research. The game’s developers at Riot Games (a ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

Tencent rolls out Hunyuan 3D engine for AI-driven asset creation

Tencent Cloud launches the Hunyuan 3D Model API for enterprise integration. Creators get 20 free daily generations; enterprise users receive 200 credits. Over 150 Chinese companies, including Unity ...
EurekAlert!

Enhanced phase-shifting technique captures 3D shapes of moving objects with high precision

Researchers at Science Tokyo have developed a neural inverse rendering method that accurately reconstructs the three-dimensional (3D) shapes of moving objects using only three standard projection ...
Road to VR

Meta Reveals ‘WorldGen’ Tool to Generate VR Worlds from AI Prompts

Meta announced WorldGen, a new AI tool that could soon let you generate navigable 3D worlds in minutes from a single text prompt. Meta Reality Labs announced WorldGen in a blog post, a research-stage ...
SiliconANGLE

Meta’s new image segmentation models can identify objects and people and reconstruct them in 3D

Meta Platforms Inc. today is expanding its suite of open-source Segment Anything computer vision models with the release of SAM 3 and SAM 3D, introducing enhanced object recognition and ...