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A historic moment for spatial storytelling at Venice Immersive!

All three stories created in collaboration with 4DV.ai took home all three prizes at Venice Immersive 2026, with 4D Gaussian Splatting at the heart of each.

🏆 Venice Immersive Grand Prize
The Pigeon Ring
by Yuqi Zhang and Shixin Tao

🏆 Venice Immersive Achievement Prize
Empire at Sea
by Peter Flaherty

🏆 Venice Immersive Special Jury Prize
Out of the Ashes
by @rorycmitchell and @ImmersiveJourno

Congratulations to the directors and teams behind these remarkable works. Stories always matter more than technology, and this moment belongs to the people who imagined and brought them to life. We’re proud to stand behind these pioneers.

For us, these awards mark a moment we’ve been building toward: 4D taking its place in the language of cinema. The Venice Immersive jury’s recognition feels like the opening of a new chapter, and we’re grateful to be part of it. Here’s to even more stories told through 4DGS at Venice next year.

And if you’re at IBC 2026 this week in Amsterdam, you can talk to us in person at Booth 7.B47, where we’re demonstrating an end-to-end 4D Gaussian Splatting workflow together with Dell, NVIDIA and OBSBOT.

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We’re glad to share that 4DV.ai helped bring all three projects featuring 4D Gaussian Splatting at Venice Immersive 2026 to life. Presented at one of the world’s most prestigious film festivals, these works offer a glimpse into where visual storytelling is heading:

🎬 The Pigeon Ring
Directed by Yuqi Zhang & Shixin Tao, in collaboration with MediaStorm
The very first immersive narrative captured entirely with 4D Gaussian Splatting, turning live-action performances and a family home environment into a freely explorable 6DoF story where viewers can move through memory, space, and intimate family bonds.

🎬 Empire at Sea
Directed by Peter Flaherty
A shared mixed-reality drama where ten viewers inhabit the same scene, moving between characters, following different conversations, and influencing a branching narrative. 4D Gaussian Splatting brings volumetric performances into their shared space, turning where audiences stand and what they choose to follow into part of the storytelling itself.

🎬 Out of the Ashes
Directed by Rory Mitchell & @ImmersiveJourno
Co-directed by the “Godmother of VR,” Nonny de la Peña, this project brings audiences into places affected by the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires to hear firsthand accounts from those who lived through them. Through 4D capture, their expressions, gestures, and voices become part of the experience, preserving not just places, but the human stories within them.

At 4DV.ai, we’re making spatial storytelling more lifelike, expressive, and accessible with 4D Gaussian Splatting. We hope to help creators capture dynamic reality with greater fidelity while dramatically lowering the cost and complexity of production.

Our founder @JiamingSuen is on-site at Venice Immersive. We’re always excited to support creators and projects pushing the boundaries of spatial storytelling with 4DGS. If you’re exploring what’s next, we’d love to connect in person. Feel free to reach out to us at contact@4dv.ai.

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Excited to share one of our latest collaborations.

A huge thank you to @RadianceFields for bringing us into this project. It was a privilege to work alongside @Dell and @nvidia on a project that demonstrates what's possible when powerful compute systems and creative storytelling come together. It was a great collaboration on an ambitious 11-minute piece where every shot is in 4D, across a wide range of content types and environments.

At 4DV.ai, we believe 4D is where visual media is heading. Projects like this are exciting glimpses for the future where creators like Michael have access to incredible technology to deliver compelling stories to viewers around the world with a simple web link. Our mission is to democratize 4D production so artists can explore new ways to express ideas volumetrically and push storytelling beyond the boundaries of the flat screen.

More exciting projects to come.

We’re excited to make our first apperarance at #NABShow2026 in partnership with @OBSBOT_Official. Stop by our booth on the show floor to see our volumetric capture technology and XR demos live. Step into our 70-camera PTZ rig, get captured in 4D, and experience the future of visual media powered by 4D Gaussian Splatting.

📍 Booth: Central Hall, C5249
🎟️ Registration Code: NS3855
📅 Date: April 19–22, 2026
📌 Venue: Las Vegas Convention Center

Check out our collaboration with Corridor Crew on 4D Gaussian Splatting: youtu.be/X8yRlA7jqEQ?si…

Huge thanks to @SirWrender and the entire @CorridorDigital team for making this happen. It’s easily one of the best explainer videos on Gaussian Splatting we’ve seen.

Also check out our website at 4dv.ai. From jazz performances, to the first wedding ever captured in 4D, to a cute little cat, to a REAL rocket launch, we’re constantly pushing the boundaries of what 4D capture can be and bringing 4D creation to everyone.

We believe 4D content is the new, and ultimately the most powerful form of visual media. Unlocking it means solving the entire pipeline end to end. That’s what we’re building at 4DV.ai: a full-stack toolkit for 4D content creation. Beyond the specialized 4D representations for data processing discussed in the video, we’re also building mobile capture systems with PTZ camera rigs, non-linear 4D editing tools, and playback and distribution workflows across the web, Unity, Blender, UE5, Houdini, and other platforms.

More to come soon. Stay tuned.