First look at ByteDance's new World Model: text-to-navigable 3D worlds with real-time editing
Uncanny_Harry · x · 2026-10-12
TheoMediaAI shared a subtitled first look at ByteDance's new World Model, showing text-to-navigable 3D world generation, free keyboard/mouse exploration (flying on a paper plane), real-time object spawning and interaction (climb a spawned spoon), further scene edits via commands, and an "any door" portal feature linking unrelated environments—demonstrated via camera paths through a Stephen Chow King of Comedy scene.
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