IA Lab
AI experiments, AI+Art crossovers, and curated external articles about artificial intelligence and creative technology.
SAM 3D Animal — Meta’s Segment Anything Just Learned to Pull a Whole Herd Out of One Photo
Reconstructing a single object from a photo is hard enough. Now imagine eight overlapping dogs in a…
VARCO 3D — The Studio Behind Lineage Just Shipped Text-to-Animated-3D in Your Browser, for 35 Cents an Asset
Hook Most text-to-3D tools hand you a frozen mesh and wish you luck. VARCO 3D hands you…
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…
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…