// James C. Kane

developer (web, xr, ai)

The Nanauts

let abstract = "In The Nanauts, you play Earth’s goodwill ambassador to three friendly, funny robot explorers, helping them understand our culture and way of life by exploring your environment, answering their queries, and aiding in their quest for knowledge, with the friendly Professor guiding your experience. I was determined to experiment with new kinds of gameplay and intelligent characters powered by AI, and this game uses AI models like Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) and Llama 3.3 across vision, language and navigation tasks. The project won for Best Immersive Web SDK at the Meta Start Developer Competition, including $30,000 in prize money. It was subsequently featured on the Meta Quest browser homepage for every Quest 3 globally and has quickly racked up over 50,000 players in its first few weeks since release. I spoke to Gabriella Romagnoli’s AI XR Spotlight channel on YouTube about it and have a forthcoming blog post coming out on Meta’s website."

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