Thomas Tobin

Been building this quietly for a while. Google just announced our launch. Dreamlands is live on Google Cloud Marketplace. A composable world model that generates entire 3D game worlds and every asset needed - any style, any engine. Describe a world. Watch it appear. Tweak it endlessly.

Dreamlands is now live on Google Cloud Marketplace. A composable world model that generates entire 3D game worlds and every asset needed. Any style. Any engine. Describe a world. Watch it appear.

@bcherny How do you find it with large commits? I find claude taps out at ~15 issues found when asking for reviewing pending git changes.

New in Claude Code: Code Review. A team of agents runs a deep review on every PR. We built it for ourselves first. Code output per Anthropic engineer is up 200% this year and reviews were the bottleneck Personally, I’ve been using it for a few weeks and have found it catches many real bugs that I would not have noticed otherwise

Which way to the @dayofthedevs , I forgot I can't read... @gameteam_6 @ThomasTobin3D Will be there to show off some Tire Boy! #tireboy

We're going to be showing off Tire Boy this Sunday!

Nodes aren't the future of AI creation. Here's what comes next. 0:00 - Nodes aren't the future 0:32 - The viewport problem 1:38 - Plumbing vs filmmaking 2:40 - No viewport; just a slot machine 3:22 - Stacks, nodes, and spatial engines 5:02 - New Lego blocks every two weeks 6:49 - Why AI content is stuck under 3 minutes 7:03 - Genie 3 and MotionStream 9:04 - Intangible AI and ArtCraft 9:54 - The hybrid neural 3D engine approach 10:33 - Nodes are a bridge, not a destination

@chrisbarber We're building a world model for gaming/film at Dreamlands.ai

world model startups: - World Labs (Fei-Fei) - AMI (Yann) - Genesis AI (kind of, more simulation?) - Odyssey (by the people who did the Voyage self driving car co) - Runway (kind of) - Lightwheel - GDM's efforts - General Intuition - Wayve (driving models), also Tesla, also Waymo - Rhoda AI - Prometheus - Saturn Dynamics what else? thank you to @ZoeyTang_1007 for help and how do you think about the business of the pure world model cos? is the customer robotics cos? perhaps in the future, game studios?

@bilawalsidhu We had worked on this a few years back at Unity, before it got killed for not being "core" Unity...but putting cameras right in the eyeballs of fighters was incredible to experience. cnn.com/videos/sports/…

The tech we use to capture sports is a decade ahead of how we actually watch it. We can reproduce entire games in 3D, track every player down to their pose and heartbeat - but barely any of that makes it to your living room. 0:00 Immersion Gap 0:48 Computer Vision & Hawk-Eye 1:42 Player Tracking & Wearables 2:08 AI Analytics & Real-Time Stats 3:07 VR Sports Viewing & Why It Fails 4:16 Radiance Fields & Gaussian Splatting 5:10 Viewpoint Pro: Virtual Replays 5:59 Arcturus: 4D Gaussian Splatting 7:31 Muybridge: Virtual Camera Systems 9:53 F1 Vision Pro Experience 11:26 XR Sports Alliance 11:47 COSM: The $600 Ticket 13:04 The Future of Sports Broadcasting I break down the companies and tech turning sports into a next-gen immersive experience - from Sony's Hawk-Eye camera systems and NFL tracking chips to AI analytics powered by Google Cloud and AWS. We look at why VR headset viewing keeps failing, and how 4D Gaussian Splatting from Arcturus and multi-plane image-based volumetric capture from Muybridge are creating viewing angles that were previously impossible. Plus the F1 Vision Pro experience, the XR Sports Alliance, and why COSM's in-person model is winning where headsets can't. The data foundation is clearly there. The real question is how it gets to you. Hope you enjoyed this; follow @bilawalsidhu for more deep dives mapping the frontier of creation & computing.

@MBromberg The gap between world models and engines is real - but Unity agents ingesting video isn't the answer. We're building a hybrid world model that generates 3D point cloud worlds directly. Real geometry, not frames. Editable and exportable to Unity or Unreal.

Folks. Can I explain something about world models? Seems like today might be a good day for that. Advances in large-scale “world models” — whether developed by partners like Google or others — materially expand the frontier of interactive content creation. These models can generate high-quality, interactive, video-like experiences from natural language or minimal input. Today, they are primarily editable through prompting, which limits the level of determinism and precision required for production-grade game mechanics. As a result, their outputs remain probabilistic and non-deterministic, making them unsuitable on their own for games that require consistent, repeatable player experiences. Rather than viewing this as a risk, we see it as a powerful accelerator. Video-based generation is exactly the type of input our Agentic AI workflows are designed to leverage—translating rich visual output into initial game scenes that can then be refined with the deterministic systems Unity developers use today. Our agents already generate high-quality scenes from static video. Interactive, camera-controllable video from world models would further enhance this pipeline and materially improve the fidelity and speed of early-stage content creation. We believe this represents a meaningful step forward for AI-driven development across the industry. Unity’s role is to operationalize these advances. Outputs from world models are ingested into Unity’s real-time engine, where they are converted into structured, deterministic, and fully controllable simulations. Within Unity, creators define physics, gameplay logic, networking, monetization, and live-operations systems to ensure consistent behavior across devices and sessions. This combination enables developers to move faster from concept to scalable product: AI accelerates environment and asset generation, while Unity provides the execution layer that transforms generated content into reliable, monetizable experiences. As a result, world models expand content supply and reduce development friction, while Unity remains the system of record for runtime, distribution, and long-term operations. This dynamic broadens Unity’s addressable market and reinforces its central role in the interactive ecosystem.

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@bilawalsidhu Its true, but coming back to a node graph a year later is one of the most painful things ever if not organized well. End up having to step through it. Sometimes I just want to create without having to think about how to create.

Nodes aren’t giving up. There’s a reason node-based workflows have stood the test of time. It shouldn’t be the only view — timeline and layers have their place but I’d be damned if it ain’t useful af to see the entire workflow at a glance. Denying it is like saying system architecture diagrams are mid.

@nickfloats @asciidiego 100000% would love to chat shortly on this for dreamlands.ai if you'd be open 👀

pixars creative directors dont world build in node editors. character dev and story happens through sketching and talking. thr nodes are for technical artists implementing their vision. big difference. forcing artists to think like engineers in the moment of creation should be criminal. youre effectively telling them to build the hammer before they can use it.

Every node in your graph is a little death of inspiration to me. You've turned imagination into plumbing and disguised it as “creative freedom”. You've mistaken complexity for control and turned creation into workflow theater. Let us build worlds, not workflows. Don't give me nodes, bitch I am the node. Creation should be fluid, not a flowchart. Tools should disappear instead of demanding our attention. That's how imagination truly scales.

@jameygannon Coming from a super pro node person, a Houdini artist, Defintely not. Most people dont want to have to think about the best way to create, they just want to make things. Taking this bet with Dreamlands.ai

is the canvas with nodes the final answer for generative AI workspaces?

8% of all steam games, 20% of games this year declaring ai usage on steam. Hedging a bet we see 50% next year. Source in reply

@donny_verve Any overarching themes?

Currently viewing the tons of pitchdecks in my email.

@Brooooook_lyn Dooo it

If this post gets a lot of likes, I can open source a JavaScript SDK for capturing system audio on macOS and Windows and can be used in Node.js/Electron. The code is already done; it just needs a little documentation and a demo. github.com/toeverything/A…

@zarazhangrui Curious if you set alarms to remind you or just eventually got in the habit

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