PROJECT GENIE
Brand
GOOGLE
Entrant Agency
GOOGLE
Category
Digital Craft
Award
Grand Prix
Festival & Year
Cannes Lions (2026)
Case Study Details
Start building and exploring worlds of your own with Project Genie.
Project Genie is an experimental research prototype that lets you create and explore infinitely diverse worlds. Simply use a text or image prompt to generate interactive environments that build in real time as you play them.
Project Genie is powered by Genie 3, our world model which enables training AI agents in an unlimited curriculum of rich simulations and opens new frontiers for AI research.
It’s currently available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US (18+), expanding to more territories in due course.
Learn more: https://labs.google/projectgenie
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Objective
Translate frontier world model research into an
intuitive digital product for early adopters of Al.
Google's generative world model transforms text or image
prompts into immersive worlds that can be explored in real
time. Generative, immersive worlds are new digital medium
that will ive alongside the likes of images, videos and films.
They have the potential to unlock new paradigms in gaming,
education, entertainment, and science. But, there was no
way for the public to create worlds of their own.
Insight
Make a first-of-its-kind technology feel familiar
and fun, not complex or technical.
The vast majority of people don't know what generative
world models are. And if they do, it’s unlikely they have much
experience using them. The Project Genie experience is
simple and intuitive so anyone trying it out feels like ground
breaking technology is made for them.
Impact
The world's first opportunity to play an infinite
variety of worlds that generate in real time.
Project Genie established the UX paradigm for creating
and exploring generative worlds. I's beacon for showing
the world what generative world models can do, and an
inspiration for the industry.
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Spheres as the visual language for worlds
Project Genie uses a visual language of spheres to communicate the expansive and
‘immersive quality of world generations. Spheres start as unfiled and gridded, and
‘slowly become flooded with stunning visuals as users go deeper into the experience.
‘The visual progression from blank slate to painted canwas communicates progression
‘The spherical visuals also signal that Project Genie's outputs are a new creative
‘medium, explorable worlds, not to be confused with generative video.
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World sketching with image and text prompting
‘Aired canvas tied to the emblematic gridded sphere feels lke entering into a
blank world to sketch on. As people enter environment and character prompts,
‘an image preview fis the screen, folowing the curvature of the sphere. The
‘edges of the image preview are blurred, to suggest that worlds can be refined
through modification, and stil need to be generated.
People also have the creative freedom to upload an image as part of their
prompt. and choose to explore from a first person or third person point of view.
Representing Diffusion with blurred colors from the world
‘After a prompt has been submitted, a sphere appears in the middle of the
‘screen witha blurry wash of colors contextual to the world being generated.
‘This suggests that generation is happening.
‘Once the world has been generated. a focused image appears inside the
‘sphere, signaling that the world is ready to be explored.
Inside a world, the generation appears full screen and WASD, arrow keys, and
‘spacebar are used for navigation.
Gallery of infinite possibilities
‘Starting from nothing can be difficult. A gallery of premade worlds gives,
people a place to start. The gallery follows a spherical grid and has a carousel
view for easier navigation. There are always gallery worlds bleeding off the
page, suggesting an infinite number of possible worlds for people to explore.
People can enter into any ofthe gallery worlds, choose to remix them to their
liking. or create their own,
