Karen X Cheng demos Luma AR Editing Feature

Tech influencer Karen X Cheng showed off the Luma AR editing ability and will be featuring 10 NeRF creators who try out the feature on her Instagram.

Tech influencer Karen X Cheng showed off the Luma AR editing ability and will be featuring 10 NeRF creators who try out the feature on her Instagram.

Michael Rubloff

Michael Rubloff

Michael is the Founder and Managing Editor of Radiancefields.com

Luma AR

Tech influencer Karen X Cheng showed off the Luma AR editing ability and will be featuring 10 NeRF creators who try out the feature on her Instagram.

In order to enter, just add #karenxnerf onto your NeRF reel on Instagram by May 21st!

Karen is no stranger to NeRFs, making a NeRF commercial for McDonald's earlier this year and several NeRF experiments with James Perlman in 2022.

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Splats Come to Fortnite, Nike Shoots in 4D, Splats on a Nintendo 3DS

Episode 12 · Nov 9, 2026

Epic’s UEFN 43.00 brings Gaussian splats into the Unreal Editor for Fortnite, importing PLY and SPZ files that render on every platform UEFN supports, mobile included.

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