But then I saw the potential for engineers to turn text and images into 3D models. Tony (Yuchen) Liu, creative marketing ...

On Friday, researchers from Nvidia announced Magic3D, an AI model that can generate 3D models from text descriptions. After entering a prompt such as, “A blue poison-dart frog sitting on a water lily, ...

Imagine being able to create a detailed 3D sculpture of someone using nothing more than a single photo. Sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, right? But thanks to advancements in generative AI, ...

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Leopoly, the studio behind PC VR modeling software Shapelab (2023), has launched a new version built specifically for Quest headsets. Called Shapelab Lite, the polygon-based 3D modeling app is now in ...

3D modeling is used across a variety industries and applications. The CGI effects of modern movie blockbusters, video games, VR and AR, NASA's moon crater mapping missions, Google's heritage site ...

Meshy, a startup in the AI design space, released Meshy-4 today, its latest AI-powered 3D modeling tool. The new version offers improved mesh geometry and a redesigned workflow, aiming to change how ...

What if you could turn a simple photo into a fully realized 3D model, all without spending a dime? Below, Matthew Berman takes you through how SAM 3D, an open source platform from Meta, is ...

Blender is shaping modern creative pipelines as 3D animation software becomes faster and more specialized. In 2026, many tools deliver stronger viewport performance optimization, handling massive ...

Use a 3D model when your document needs to display different perspectives of the same graphic in Microsoft Word. Microsoft 365 applications can fake 3D shapes and letters, but the effect is often less ...

The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt.