[From the industry] Loci is now a part of Epic Games

We are excited to announce that Loci, an industry-leading developer of AI technology for 3D content understanding and tagging, has joined Epic Games.

Today, when a creator uploads a 3D asset there is no metadata associated with it unless they manually tag their work, making it labor intensive to accurately categorize their content and difficult to discover. Loci’s computer vision models rapidly tag 3D assets automatically, precisely and at scale, making content much easier to search, manage and use.

We plan to integrate Loci’s technology across the Epic ecosystem, including to improve search, sharing and discoverability in Fab and to automatically index custom assets in Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN). Loci’s 3D similarity detection solution for IP protection will help to identify potential IP violations and enhance moderation capabilities across the Epic ecosystem.

“3D is the next frontier of AI-powered creativity, and we believe in making it more accessible, discoverable, and protected,” says Loci CEO, Eugene Yi. “Joining Epic Games allows us to integrate Loci’s 3D understanding technology where it matters most—supporting creators directly in the strongest 3D asset ecosystem in the world.”

“Epic creates and hosts a huge amount of 3D content across our ecosystem, and we are always looking for ways to automate artist workflows and improve discoverability of content,” says Lucia Specia, Director of the Machine Learning Solutions team. “We look forward to working with the Loci team to develop novel AI tools to improve how our community creates and modifies 3D content across Fab, Unreal Engine and our entire ecosystem.”