The upshot: we’ve been able to calculate what needs to happen with renewable energy to reach climate targets, but not how ...

What if you could create an entire world—complete with evolving landscapes, interactive objects, and persistent memories—using nothing more than a few words? This isn’t a scene from a sci-fi ...

AR vs VR comparison highlights two rapidly evolving immersive technologies shaping how people interact with digital content. Augmented reality vs virtual reality differs mainly in how each system ...

While building tools for virtual worlds, we discovered that the high-performance, real-time infrastructure needed for the metaverse is exactly what businesses need to operate in the AI era. We are ...

Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research lab DeepMind has introduced a new, video game-playing agent called SIMA 2 that can navigate through 3D virtual worlds it has never encountered before and ...

Google LLC today introduced Project Genie, a tool that makes it possible to generate three-dimensional virtual environments using prompts. The tool is initially available in the U.S. to users with ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the metaverse was meant to reimagine how we interact with each other and the world, providing us with an immersive world where we could seamlessly combine digital and ...

Recent work from VR researchers and game artists shows how concept art, user-generated content, and attention-predicting AI are influencing virtual world creation. Studies on 360-degree videos ...

Recent AI progress has followed a pattern. Across text, image, audio, and video, once the right technical foundations were discovered, it only took a few years for AI-generated outputs to go from ...

One day after Meta announced it was shutting down Horizon Worlds in virtual reality, the company’s chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, announced that it’s reversing course. “I have a little bit ...