Luma AI has announced that Flythroughs, the standalone mobile app that creates stabilized cinematic 3D video paths from phone footage, will be shut down on January 1, 2026. Starting now and until the shutdown, every user can access free high quality exports of all previously created Flythroughs projects. After the cutoff, the Flythroughs app and all associated cloud data will be permanently deleted.
Flythroughs is a completely separate product from Luma’s Interactive Scenes platform.
Flythroughs is not the NeRF/3DGS based interactive reconstruction engine that Luma is known for. It is a dedicated app built around a different workflow. You capture a standard phone video, Luma reconstructs a 3D environment internally, and the app automatically generates a stabilized “drone-like” camera flight path.
Interactive Scenes, by contrast, is Luma’s flagship radiance field reconstructions, full-blown NeRF/Gaussian Splatting scenes built for free navigation, storytelling, and high fidelity 3D exploration on web and desktop. That system is not affected by this shutdown.
Flythroughs launched in 2023 and was one of the earliest consumer facing applications to take NeRF underlying reconstruction and package it into a set and forget video product.
But over the last two years, Luma’s roadmap has shifted toward unified, high end spatial generative systems, Genie, Dream Machine, and advanced Interactive Scenes. Because Flythroughs uses a completely different capture philosophy, rendering pipeline, and output format, maintaining parallel systems no longer makes strategic sense for the company.
Export your content now
All historic Flythroughs projects can be exported in high quality video format at no cost.
Exports are available inside the Flythroughs app until January 1, 2026.
After January 1, 2026
The Flythroughs app will be removed.
All Flythroughs cloud data will be wiped permanently.
This does not apply to Interactive Scenes
Luma’s NeRF/Gaussian Splatting reconstructions remain active and supported.
Interactive Scenes continue to be accessible via the Luma web and desktop platforms.
The retirement of Flythroughs officially closes this chapter, but it arrives at a time when radiance-field technology has moved far beyond single camera path video generation. For many this will not affect their workflow, but for those who used Flythroughs, be sure to export your scenes prior to January 1st.
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