CopernicAI is an early-stage generative AI project from a team that has published panoramic computer-vision research at ICLR and in deep learning venues. Rather than chasing flat image generation, it targets the next data modality: fully generated 3D worlds. Its current approach is a '2+1D bubble world' — a generated 360° panorama combined with depth information — as a practical stepping stone toward full generative 3D.
The flagship tool is Gen360, a text-to-360° panorama generator now in alpha. You enter a prompt, receive a full panoramic image, and can inspect it interactively using Mollweide, little-planet, and equirectangular projections, then download it. A companion pipeline, copernic360, turns a generated panorama into a panoramic-plus-depth environment viewable on Quest VR headsets, with other headsets available on request.
Access is developer-friendly: a free Gen360 API is offered for a limited time after signup, and generated 360° images may be used commercially and non-commercially under the Creative ML OpenRAIL-M license. The project roadmap moves from efficient panoramic AI (ICLR 2021) through partially scalable (2022) and scalable panoramic AI (2023) toward generative panoramic AI and full generative worlds. Because it is alpha-stage research tooling, expect quality to evolve and features to change.
