3D Intelligence Report – June 10, 2026
Five fresh finds, all verified live today.
Every link below was fetched and verified on June 10, 2026, the day this report went out.
WorldOlympiad: Can Your World Model Survive a Triathlon?
Alibaba DAMO Academy, Zhejiang University et al.
1,000 videos, 3 events
A triathlon-style evaluation for video world models: physical faithfulness, geometric consistency (checked by 3DGS reconstruction), and interaction fidelity. Code and data released.
Single leaderboard scores hide too much. Rebuilding a generated video in 3D and checking whether the scene holds together is exactly the evaluation lens our field needed. Run your generative outputs through a reconstruction and inspect the cloud: the gaps show in minutes.
Technical Lead, Computer Vision
$257K-$315K (disclosed)
The skill list reads like a geometry syllabus: SfM, 3D reconstruction, Gaussian splatting at production scale, visual localization. A company built on scanning the world through phones is paying top of market for people who understand structure, not just models. Lead with a project where your pipeline survived messy reality.
Four funding doors, four regions
next deadline in 28 days
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Europe deadline 2026-07-08 · 28 days leftEIC Accelerator (next cutoff)
Grant up to EUR 2.5M + equity EUR 1-10M
Deep-tech startups and SMEs only, but the blended grant plus equity is the strongest single instrument in Europe for spatial AI products. The 12-page short proposal of Step 1 can be written in a week.
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Asia deadline 2026-07-22 · 42 days leftJST EIG CONCERT-Japan 13th call: AI-Powered Robotics for Real-World Applications
About JPY 39M per project over 3 years, 6 projects funded
Consortia need a Japanese team plus two European countries from the eligible list. Robotics perception and real-world 3D understanding sit dead center in the scope. Partner search is the long pole: start it now, not in July.
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Americas deadline 2026-08-31 · 82 days leftNASA ROSES-25 A.10 INNOVATE (Earth Science)
ROSES program element, rolling submissions
Rolling until August 31, which means the queue is the strategy: submit early, get reviewed early. Remote sensing innovation with commercial data is a natural fit for 3D and lidar people.
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France deadline 2026-10-01 · 113 days leftConcours d'innovation i-Nov, vague 14 (volet Numerique)
Projects EUR 1-5M, SME scale, co-funded
The digital track funds single-company innovation projects at SME scale, which makes it the most accessible of the four doors for a French 3D startup. October feels far; the budget annexes are what eat the time.
SuperSplat v2.27.4
LODs at publish
The 2.27 line adds Generate LODs in the publish dialog plus splat-hash publish flows: capture to streamable web scene, levels of detail included, in one browser tab.
The fastest path I know from a phone capture to a link you can send. LOD generation at publish quietly removes the last excuse for keeping splats off the web.
A Functional Taxonomy of World Models: renderers, simulators, planners
The essay splits the overloaded term world model into three machines and positions Marble (exports Gaussian splats + collision meshes) among them. Naming precedes understanding; this frame will stick.
For 3D data people the interesting line is where the camps meet: a rendered world you can act in needs real geometry underneath. Splats with collision meshes is an opinionated answer, and your scan data is simulator food.
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