In November, we released Display.land, the world’s fastest way to create, edit and share real world 3D environments and assets using everyday mobile cameras. Over 92,000 user-created spaces and 142 countries later, we’re excited to reveal the next step in our journey.
Meet the Display.land Studio — the world’s fastest way to create and share multiplayer 3D, AR and VR games and experiences that blend reality and imagination.
The Studio is a visual and code-optional playground for those of us who love to create and bring people together through social play. Experiences created with the studio can be entirely virtual or anchored to any real-world location precisely to a few centimeters.
We’ve been dogfooding and iterating on the Studio and engine to create immersive, communal play experiences over the past two years — from our Voxel Sandbox that brought over 150 concurrent players together in one physical space in San Francisco’s SF MoMA, to the thousands of 3D captures and life-scale animated scenes that have been shared by the Display.land community since our public beta launch a month ago.
Today, we’re opening early access signups for creators who want to get their hands on the Studio first.
Drag and Drop Creation, Code Optional
The Studio is a cloud editor that allows anyone to publish cross-platform, multiplayer experiences that can be shared and played instantly on mobile, desktop and head-mounted devices.
For people who love creating and modding games, the Studio offers rich player customization and level layout options that include built-in templates, uploading and replacing in-world textures, and assets with your own photos, videos and 3D environments and objects captured by your camera. Logic and gameplay changes are easily changeable via lightweight scripting and custom components.
Users can also create and publish shared, persistent AR games and experiences using the Studio’s built-in cloud AR positioning service.
No prior programming experience is required, but if you know a little bit of web development and javascript, you’re already off to the races.
Under The Hood, A Powerful 3D Engine For Developers
For those who want to push their creations to the limit, the Studio offers flexible APIs to the underlying 3D engine that powers all Display.land experiences. We’ve built our engine to ensure that you can develop in JavaScript, using familiar web patterns, libraries, and asset formats, without sacrificing on security or best-in-class performance across all supported platforms: AR, VR, Mobile, and Web.
We’ve also taken care of many of the difficulties in building engaging, cross-platform, real-world experiences. With plug and play multiplayer networking, persistence, cross-platform input handling, integration with our cloud AR positioning service and more, our engine has been built to allow you to focus on what makes your experience unique — your creativity.
