We are on the cusp where Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Extended Reality (XR) are converging to unlock new paradigms of interactive computing. However, a significant gap exists between the ecosystems of these two fields: while AI research and development is accelerated by mature frameworks like JAX and benchmarks like LMArena, prototyping novel AI-driven XR interactions remains a high-friction process, often requiring practitioners to manually integrate disparate, low-level systems for perception, rendering, and interaction. To bridge this gap, we present XR Blocks, a cross-platform framework designed to accelerate human-centered AI + XR innovation. XR Blocks strives to provide a modular architecture with plug-and-play components for core abstraction in AI + XR: user, world, peers; interface, context, and agents. Crucially, it is designed with the mission of "reducing frictions from idea to reality", thus accelerating rapid prototyping of AI + XR apps. Built upon accessible technologies (WebXR, three.js, TensorFlow, Gemini), our toolkit lowers the barrier to entry for XR creators. We demonstrate its utility through a set of open-source templates, samples, and advanced demos, empowering the community to quickly move from concept to interactive XR prototype. Site: https://xrblocks.github.io
翻译:我们正处在人工智能与扩展现实融合、开启交互式计算新范式的关键节点。然而,这两个领域的生态系统之间存在显著鸿沟:尽管人工智能研发可借助JAX等成熟框架和LMArena等基准测试加速推进,但构建新型AI驱动的XR交互原型仍面临巨大阻力,开发者往往需要手动集成感知、渲染与交互等分散的低层系统。为弥合这一差距,我们推出XR Blocks——一个旨在加速以人为中心的AI+XR创新的跨平台框架。XR Blocks致力于为AI+XR核心抽象要素(用户、环境、协作者;界面、情境与智能体)提供模块化架构与即插即用组件。其核心设计理念是“降低从构想到现实的实现阻力”,从而加速AI+XR应用的快速原型开发。基于易用技术栈(WebXR、three.js、TensorFlow、Gemini)构建的工具包显著降低了XR创作者的入门门槛。我们通过一系列开源模板、示例及高级演示验证其实用性,助力社区快速实现从概念到交互式XR原型的跨越。项目主页:https://xrblocks.github.io