3D World Simulator: An Interactive World Model for Robotics Simulation

Summary

This post relays the introduction of '3D World Simulator,' an interactive world model capable of generating novel view appearance, multi-view consistent RGB-D data, 3D geometry, and spatially aligned tactile signals. The system runs at over 50 FPS on an RTX 5090 GPU. While the author praises its potential for robotics simulation, they also highlight current limitations such as restricted workspace and gripper closure artifacts, suggesting that achieving frontier lab-scale performance remains a goal.

Editorial context

The author relays a preprint or project announcement for '3D World Simulator' from researcher @jwang771, noting its ability to generate novel views, RGB-D data, geometry, and tactile signals at 50+ FPS on an RTX 5090, while also critiquing the model's current data limitations regarding workspace and gripper artifacts.

Source: Chris Paxton — X Robotics · Read original article ↗

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Without a doubt this is to me the future of robotics simulation. and it's incredibly cool that you can play around with it and interact with it.

but i also think you can see how incredibly *data limited* this sort of approach is. limited workspace, gripper closure artifacts. would be amazing to see this at frontier lab scale.

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【引用 @jwang771】We introduce 3D World Simulator, an interactive world model that runs at 50+ FPS on an RTX 5090.
Open source S4

Play with the world model now at http://jwang771.github.io/3dworldsimulator!
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Quoted postJimmy Wang@jwang771

We introduce 3D World Simulator, an interactive world model that runs at 50+ FPS on an RTX 5090. Our model predicts in a unified 3D representation space, capable of generating: • Novel view appearance • Multi-view consistent RGB-D • 3D geometry • Spatially aligned tactile signals Play with the world model now at http://jwang771.github.io/3dworldsimulator!

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