Map the World by Bilawal Sidhu

The $600 Seat That Isn't in the Stadium

How computer vision, AI, and volumetric capture are reshaping sports viewing.

Feb 7 • Bilawal Sidhu

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January 2026

Playable Reality Is Here. Stepping Inside Genie - Google's World Model

A hands-on look at the public launch of Project Genie and the dawn of playable reality. Turn text & images into interactive simulations.

Jan 29 • Bilawal Sidhu

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AI Breakthroughs Coming in 2026: World Models, Spatial Intelligence & Multimodality

The Year AI Stops Making Videos and Starts Simulating Worlds

Jan 7 • Bilawal Sidhu

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December 2025

Beyond the Blue Dot: The Rise of Visual Positioning Systems (VPS)

Decoding VPS: The foundational tech for the next generation of AR and robotics to navigate the world.

Dec 30, 2025 • Bilawal Sidhu

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YouTube’s New Interactive Layer & Adobe in ChatGPT

YouTube’s prompt-to-play chapter and Adobe’s plan to solve your desktop chores inside ChatGPT.

Dec 21, 2025 • Bilawal Sidhu

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How Meta Bridged the Gap Between Pixels and 3D Space

SAM 3 and SAM 3D are solving some of the biggest bottlenecks in robotics, VFX, and spatial computing.

Dec 13, 2025 • Bilawal Sidhu

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November 2025

Soldiers Can Now See Through Walls: the Rise of Human–Robot Co-Perception

AR turns fused sensor data into a world both humans and autonomous systems can navigate together

Nov 30, 2025 • Bilawal Sidhu

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50 Amazing Things You Can Do With Gemini 3 & Nano Banana Pro

What Gemini 3 + Nano Banana Pro reveal about the next generation of creative tooling.

Nov 24, 2025 • Bilawal Sidhu

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Gaussian Splatting the World with Satellite 3D & Google's One-Two Punch

This AI paper just solved Google Earth and Microsoft Flight Simulator's biggest problem. Plus, Nano Banana Pro and Gemini 3 Pro.

Nov 21, 2025 • Bilawal Sidhu

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AI Can Now Build 3D Worlds… And Live Inside Them

How world-generation models and AI agents are quietly rewriting the future of simulation, creativity, and spatial intelligence.

Nov 15, 2025 • Bilawal Sidhu

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October 2025

Matrix Oscar Winner: "It Was a Prototype Disguised as a Blockbuster"

John Gaeta, the Oscar-winning VFX architect behind bullet time, on how they pioneered the 3D/VFX techniques now powering game engines, spatial computing…

Oct 31, 2025 • Bilawal Sidhu

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Father of J.A.R.V.I.S: "We Weren't Trying to Predict the Future"

The team behind Iron Man's J.A.R.V.I.S spent months imagining holographic AI. Silicon Valley spent the next decade building it. This is that story.

Oct 25, 2025 • Bilawal Sidhu

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