The idea, first conceived by Gene Roddenberry for Star Trek’s “holodeck” (first appearance in The Practical Joker, a 1974 episode of the animated series), has eluded developers for good.

Roblox is launching and open-sourcing Cube 3D, the first version of its foundational AI model for generating 3D objects. The model is trained on 3D objects. Eventually, it will be multimodal.