3d news and trends

Fei-Fei Li’s Mysterious AI Startup World Labs Achieves Unicorn Status in Record Time
artificial intelligence // July 25, 2024

In Silicon Valley, where innovation is the currency of choice, one startup is making waves with unprecedented speed. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...

Will the Metaverse Turn Real Estate VR Company Matterport Into More Than An SEO Grab?
Metaverse // February 02, 2022

Deutsche Bank initiated coverage of Matterport, a company that creates 3D “digital twins” of interior spaces. While its target audience is the real estate digital walkthrough market, Matterport has been described as a “metaverse play” because its technology and gigantic library of spaces could be...

Apple Introduces Augmented Reality For Retailers
Innovation // February 13, 2020

Apple is updating its augmented reality (AR) Quick Look feature to enable merchants to sell its products in-app for an instant AR experience, according to reports on Thursday (Feb. 13). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

AI Firm Breaches Facial Recognition At Airports, Stores
Security & Fraud // December 16, 2019

Photos of faces and 3D masks have fooled facial recognition checkpoints at airports, as well as payment systems, but they can’t fool Apple’s Face ID systems, according to reports. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

Interviews & Exclusives
Building A Visual Test-Drive Experience For Retailers

November 11, 2019
Seeing is believing. Excuse the cliché, but it does hold a good wallop of truth in commerce, especially as such technologies as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and 3D product visualization gain traction with merchants and consumers. Indeed, evidence of the appeal of those visual retail technologies is accumulating from the furniture and home […]

Quick Reads
World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Scale Spatial AI

February 18, 2026
World Labs, the frontier artificial intelligence research and product company founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, raised $1 billion in new funding. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By […]

Apple Introduces Augmented Reality For Retailers

February 13, 2020
Apple is updating its augmented reality (AR) Quick Look feature to enable merchants to sell its products in-app for an instant AR experience, according to reports on Thursday (Feb. 13)....

AI Firm Breaches Facial Recognition At Airports, Stores

December 16, 2019
Photos of faces and 3D masks have fooled facial recognition checkpoints at airports, as well as payment systems, but they can’t fool Apple’s Face ID systems, according to reports. Get...

Adobe Acquires Facebook’s Oculus Medium VR Tool

December 08, 2019
Social media giant Facebook is selling Oculus Medium, its virtual reality sculpting tool, to Adobe, reports revealed on Saturday (Dec. 7). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...