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Epic's 3D scanning app RealityScan added AI-powered features in 2025 that automatically clean up photos and align images when converting real-world objects into 3D models. This reduces manual work for game artists who use photography to create in-game assets.
Details
Announced at the State of Unreal 2025 keynote (June 2025), RealityScan 2.0 uses machine learning to automatically mask objects within photographs — separating the subject from its background — and to improve the alignment of images captured from different angles before generating the 3D model. CD PROJEKT RED used the tool during production of a tech demo for The Witcher 4. These features automate steps that previously required significant manual editing in photogrammetry workflows.
Products affected
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Sources & Evidence
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Trace Foundation. (2026). Epic Games: Epic's 3D scanning app RealityScan added AI-powered features in 2025 that automatically clean up photos and align images when converting real-world objects into 3D models. This reduces manual work for game artists who use photography to create in-game assets (data as of 2026-03-18) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/0c66f95b-9158-4197-b2ea-6206fb3a8189. Accessed October 13, 2026.
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- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/0c66f95b-9158-4197-b2ea-6206fb3a8189
- Data as of
- March 18, 2026
- Last verified
- March 18, 2026
Other practices by Epic Games
OtherAfter widespread protests from artists in December 2022, Epic's portfolio platform ArtStation introduced a "NoAI" label that artists can apply to their work to signal they do not want it used in AI training datasets. Epic also updated its terms of service to commit that it will not use or license any ArtStation content — labeled or not — for AI training purposes.OtherEpic provides a plugin for Unreal Engine 5 that lets game developers train AI-controlled characters and agents by having them learn through trial and error — similar to how a person gets better at a task by practicing. The tool, called Learning Agents, launched as an experimental feature with Unreal Engine 5.3 in September 2023 and is aimed at developers, not players.OtherUnreal Engine 5 supports NVIDIA's DLSS technology, which uses AI to make games run more smoothly on compatible graphics cards by generating additional frames and sharpening images — without the full processing cost of rendering everything natively. Epic has also integrated NVIDIA's ACE tools, which give developers AI-powered options for animating digital human faces and generating NPC speech.
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