[jp1016]

This looks incredibly promising not just for AI research but for practical use cases in game development. Being able to generate dynamic, navigable 3D environments from text prompts could save studios hundreds of hours of manual asset design and prototyping. It could also be a game-changer for indie devs who don’t have big teams.

Another interesting angle is retrofitting existing 2D content (like videos, images, or even map data) into interactive 3D experiences. Imagine integrating something like this into Google Maps suddenly street view becomes a fully explorable 3D simulation generated from just text or limited visual data.

[creata]

It just generates video, though, doesn't it? How are you going to get usable assets out of that?

[CharlieDigital]

Why wouldn't one be able to train an AI model to extract 3D models/assets out of an image/still from video?

[teamonkey]

That would be more useful and there are some services that attempt to do that, though I don’t know of any that do it well enough that a human isn’t needed to clean up the mess.

Genie 3 isn’t that though. I don’t think it’s actually intended to be used for games at all.