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

Tencent's Voyager AI can turn one photo into an explorable 3D scene

HunyuanWorld-Voyager is an open-weights model that produces sequences of 49 frames – about two seconds of video – but users can link clips to create several minutes of continuous footage. Ars Technica notes that when viewers shift the virtual camera's perspective, objects maintain their relative positions, and the environment behaves...Read Entire Article

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" virtual scenes. The model simultaneously generates RGB video and depth information to enable direct 3D reconstruction without the need for traditional modeling techniques. However, it won't be replacing video games anytime soon. The results aren't true …