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ProxyBuild: Text-Guided Structured 3D Building Generation with Mesh-Anchored Procedural Proxies

arXiv cs.GR details ProxyBuild, a text-guided 3D building system that aims to produce editable structures instead of single baked meshes. The method uses mesh-anchored procedural proxies to separate layout prediction …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 4 days, 5 hours ago
CADSplat: Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Splatting Aided by CAD Models for Robust, Photorealistic Digital-Twin Reconstruction

arXiv cs.GR details CADSplat, a sparse-view 3D Gaussian splatting pipeline that uses CAD models to reconstruct photorealistic digital twins from fewer than 15 posed images. For teams building AR, inspection, …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 1 week, 2 days ago
WildFireGS: Physics-Based Wildfire Simulation in Large-Scale Semantics-Enriched Gaussian Splatting Forest Scenes

WildFireGS brings physics-based wildfire simulation to large-scale Gaussian-splat forest reconstructions, aiming at real-world digital twins instead of idealized synthetic scenes. The system layers semantics and material properties onto Gaussian primitives, …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Introducing Ditmara: A modular reference architecture for production-grade digital twins

Unity has published Ditmara, an open six-layer reference architecture for production-grade digital twins. The framework is engine-agnostic and maps 43 components from sensors and data ingestion through real-time 3D, cloud …

Official Unity · 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Immersive Edge: June 2026 industry content wrap-up

Unity’s June 2026 Immersive Edge roundup bundles 26 new resources for industrial 3D teams, with a strong push toward accessible creation, CAD automation, and digital-twin workflows. The practical takeaway: designers, …

Official Unity · 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Tortho-Gaussian: Splatting True Digital Orthophoto Maps

A new orthophoto pipeline replaces explicit DSM and occlusion handling with orthographic 3D Gaussian splatting, which is a pretty interesting simplification. The paper claims better building edges, low-texture areas, and …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 2 months, 4 weeks ago
From digital twins to industrial AI: Building the machine information system

Unity is pushing industrial digital twins beyond pretty 3D views and into machine information systems that combine live signals, documentation, and enterprise context. The company’s new two-part e-book series also …

Official Unity · 3 months, 1 week ago
DSD-GS: Dynamic-Static Decomposition of Gaussian Splatting for Efficient and High-Fidelity Dynamic Scene Reconstruction

Dynamic 3D Gaussian splatting is getting a practical speedup: this paper claims 10-minute training and 700+ FPS on a single RTX 5090 for Neural 3D scenes. The key trick is …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 3 months, 3 weeks ago
CLEAR-NeRF: Collinearity and Local-region Enhanced Accurate 3D Reconstruction in Unbounded Scenes

For teams building digital-twin-style worlds or scanning real spaces into games, this NeRF variant is trying to close the gap between pretty reconstructions and metric accuracy. It adds local-region detection, …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Decentralized Direct Volume Rendering: A Browser-Native GPU Architecture for MRI Digital Twins in Resource-Constrained Settings

A browser-native WebGPU renderer hits under 920 ms time-to-first-pixel and stays above 82 FPS on low-cost integrated GPUs. The interesting part for game devs is the client-side raymarching pipeline: deterministic …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 4 months ago
BlitzGS: City-Scale Gaussian Splatting at Lightning Speed

BlitzGS pushes city-scale Gaussian splatting toward practical training times by cutting the active workload at three levels: GPU sharding, densification control, and per-view culling. The result is near order-of-magnitude speedups …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 4 months, 1 week ago
Teaching Machines to Imagine: Digital Twins and the Future of Robotics

Digital twin technology is revolutionizing robotics by enabling simulation-first workflows. This innovation allows developers to create high-fidelity virtual environments for training AI-driven robots, significantly improving their performance in real-world applications.

Blog SIGGRAPH · 5 months, 1 week ago
Integrate Physical AI Capabilities into Existing Apps with NVIDIA Omniverse Libraries

NVIDIA is splitting Omniverse into standalone libraries so teams can add RTX rendering, PhysX simulation, and storage pipelines without adopting the full Kit stack. For robotics and digital-twin work, that …

Official NVIDIA Graphics · 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Racing into the future: How UE5 powers the E1 raceboat championship broadcast

Badass Studios is leveraging Unreal Engine 5 to revolutionize the UIM E1 Championship, introducing electric powerboats and real-time digital twins. This innovation not only enhances the viewing experience but also …

Official Unreal Engine · 6 months, 2 weeks ago
February’s Epic learning content: VFX, 2D animation, and digital twins

This month, Unreal Engine is offering free learning content focused on VFX, 2D animation, and digital twins. These resources are particularly beneficial for artists and designers looking to enhance their …

Official Unreal Engine · 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Advancing Digital Twin Generation Through a Novel Simulation Framework and Quantitative Benchmarking

A novel simulation framework for generating digital twins is set to enhance the accuracy of 3D model creation. This approach allows for repeatable and quantifiable experiments, which could significantly benefit …

Research arXiv cs.GR · 7 months, 1 week ago