The boundaries of the digital world are becoming far more flexible than ever before. It’s no longer just about creating images on a screen—we can now build fully-fledged 3D worlds that we can walk through and explore. This is exactly where World Labs’ Marble AI comes into play. Marble makes it extraordinarily simple and powerful to turn imagination into navigable 3D reality.
What Is Marble?
Marble is an artificial intelligence platform developed by World Labs, focused on “spatial intelligence.” In simple terms: by inputting a photo, video, or written text, you can generate persistent, explorable 3D worlds in seconds.
The word “persistent” is crucial here: Marble’s worlds are not randomly generated visuals—they are consistent environments with coherent structure that remain stable when visited, making sense from every angle.
The Magic of 3D Environment Creation: The Power of Marble
- Multimodal Input
- Marble accepts an image, text, video, or even a rough 3D structure as input.
- From a single photograph alone, Marble can analyze architectural elements, lighting, and perspective in the scene to create a fully explorable world.
- Using images taken from multiple angles (front, back, side views) allows for more controlled and detailed 3D worlds.
- Videos serve as an excellent source for providing richer depth and context.
- You can even define coarse 3D structures and then use Marble’s Chisel editor to apply style to those geometric blocks.
- Chisel: Separation of Structure and Style
One of Marble’s most innovative features is the Chisel editor. You build the structure using basic shapes (boxes, planes, etc.), then hand over the styling and details to Marble’s AI via a text prompt.
This approach offers critical creative freedom in architectural design or game levels: you decide where walls, windows, light, and shadows go first—then Marble completes the aesthetic. - Editing, Expansion, and Variation
Creating a world with Marble isn’t a one-and-done process—it’s just the beginning. You can edit the world you’ve created, add new areas, or generate entirely different variations.- Panoramic editing (pano edit): Make changes by touching specific areas on the generated 360° view.
- Expansion: Push the boundaries of the existing world and grow your map.
- Variation creation: Experiment with different design themes from the same starting point—lighting, style, objects—with small or major changes possible.
- Export and Compatibility
The created 3D worlds can be downloaded by Marble in various formats:- Gaussian splats: Ideal for web-based 3D visualization, especially compatible with Spark + Three.js.
- 3D mesh (OBJ / FBX): Ready for use in professional tools like Unity, Unreal Engine, and Blender.
- Video: Record artistic, cinematic tours of your world with full camera movement control.
- VR Support
Marble worlds are instantly explorable on VR headsets like Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3. No conversion or extra processing required—you can simply step in and walk around.
Marble’s Creative and Practical Impact
Marble is far more than a “visual effects toy”; it’s a platform that can be integrated into serious creative workflows in architecture, game development, film production, and interior design. For example:
- Architects can use Marble from concept sketches all the way to full 3D visualization. Thanks to integrations like Fenestra, scenes can be explored directly within the design window.
- Filmmakers can achieve scene consistency and depth, experimenting with camera angles and lighting inside Marble worlds.
- Game developers can rapidly prototype 3D scenes, test them, and then export to game engines.
- VR content creators can build immersive virtual spaces that give viewers or users the feeling of “discovering the unseen.”
Looking to the Future with Marble
World Labs’ vision extends far beyond Marble: the field of spatial intelligence is seen as the next major frontier for AI. Marble is only the beginning—the stability of these worlds, their immersiveness, and their response to multimodal inputs open the d
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