Researchers Develop AI System That Creates 3D Infinite Worlds

Metaverse Planet October 31, 2025Last Updated: October 31, 2025

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Huawei and Chinese researchers have introduced an AI-based generation system called WorldGrow, reminiscent of Star Trek’s Holodeck. The technology can construct infinite and photorealistic 3D worlds.

Science fiction is no longer just fiction. A new Artificial Intelligence (AI) system, likened to Star Trek’s legendary Holodeck technology, is redefining the boundaries of the digital world. WorldGrow, developed by Huawei and Chinese researchers, can create photorealistic, structurally consistent, and infinitely expansible 3D worlds. It seems the AI world is getting closer to creating a “simulation of a simulation.”

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💡 The Core of the New System

At the heart of the new system lies the realistic generation of large and continuous virtual environments. Current methods have serious limitations in this regard. 2D image-based approaches create geometric inconsistencies when viewed from different angles, while 3D implicit representation methods struggle with scalability. Furthermore, existing 3D foundation models are mostly object-centric, making them insufficient for scene-level world generation.

🌟 Stepping into a New Dimension with WorldGrow

To overcome these issues, WorldGrow offers a hierarchical framework that assembles structured scene blocks by utilizing the generation power of pre-trained 3D models. The researchers built this system on three fundamental components.

Firstly, a data processing pipeline selects and prepares high-quality scene blocks for training, creating suitable structural representations for scene generation. Secondly, a 3D block completion mechanism allows scenes to expand in a context-aware manner. Finally, a coarse-to-fine generation strategy preserves both the integrity of the overall layout and local geometric and textural accuracy.

WorldGrow achieved the highest success in geometry reconstruction when tested on the large-scale 3D-FRONT dataset. Most importantly, the system can create not only static scenes but also infinitely expansible, photorealistic 3D worlds. This makes it a revolutionary technology in fields like game development, simulation, and virtual reality.

🤖 Huge Potential for Robots

WorldGrow‘s production pipeline is based on a modular structure that constructs scenes block by block. High-quality scene blocks are selected, and then the scene is continuously expanded while maintaining 3D context consistency. This approach enables the system to theoretically create structurally consistent and realistic worlds with unlimited spatial dimensions.

The infrastructure provided by WorldGrow is considered not only a technical breakthrough in 3D scene generation but also an early example of the path toward AI’s “world-building” capability. The system can enable the creation of large-scale virtual environments. This can manifest in areas such as robotics simulations, virtual reality experiences, and scientific modeling. WorldGrow can be an incredible resource, especially for the training of Artificial Intelligence and the robots that use it. As real-world data becomes limited and repetitive, this system allows models to be trained in an infinite variety of environments. Thus, AI-powered robots can become more resilient to unexpected situations and more adaptable to environmental changes. Ultimately, WorldGrow suggests that Star Trek’s Holodeck may not be as far away as once thought.