Hackaday

DIY Magnetic Makers Help 3D Scan Tricky Objects

D scanners rely on being able to identify physical features of an object, and line up what it saw a moment ago with what it ...

4 3D Printed Tools That Are Actually Useful

Here are the best functional 3D prints. Reviewing useful 3D printed tools including soldering jigs, heavy-duty scrapers, nail ...

Creative Fabrica Enters the Third Dimension: New AI Tools Turn Text into 3D Print Models Instantly

The 3D Print Generator and 3D Model Viewer are available immediately for all Creative Fabrica’s AI Studio users. To try it out for free and start shaping your ideas, visit ...
Scientific American

The next AI revolution could start with world models

Why today’s AI systems struggle with consistency and how emerging world models aim to give machines a steady grasp of space ...
YouTube on MSN

Must-try 3D AI platform (Meshy 5 tutorial)

Sponsored by Meshy. Unlock the fastest path from idea to 3D model with Meshy AI 5! In this Blue Lighting tutorial, we walk ...
Geeky Gadgets

Turn Any Photo into a 3D Model with SAM 3D : From One Snapshot to Shareable Mesh

Imagine snapping a photo of your favorite object, a vintage car, a family heirloom, or even your pet, and instantly transforming it into a lifelike 3D model. Thanks to Meta’s SAM 3D, this futuristic ...
9to5Mac

Apple releases impressive open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views

The model, called SHARP, can reconstruct a photorealistic 3D scene from a single image in under a second. Here are some examples. Apple has published a study titled Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in ...
Gizmodo

OpenAI Defaults Free Users to Cheapest Model to Cut Back on Costs

ChatGPT users who aren’t paying for one of the higher-tiered subscriptions are going to have to talk to OpenAI’s cheapest AI model. Wired spotted a recent update in the release notes for ChatGPT that ...
Phys.org

First-of-its-kind 3D model lets you explore Easter Island statues up close

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. To visit it and marvel at the ...
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 ...
Fast Company

Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs unveils its world-generating AI model

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 ...
Ars Technica

New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats

On Tuesday, Tencent released HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a new open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, allowing users to pilot a camera path to “explore” ...