About us
From AI Text to AI Worlds
ChatGPT taught computers to understand language. The next step is even more ambitious: teaching AI to understand the world itself.
Spatial AI combines world models, computer vision, robotics, XR, mapping, simulation, and generative AI to help computers perceive, reason about, and interact with three-dimensional environments.
Topics regularly include:
- World Models
- Spatial Intelligence
- Computer Vision
- Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MR)
- Robotics and Embodied AI
- 3D Printing
- Digital Twins
- Creative AI
- AI Filmmaking
- GIS, Mapping, and Spatial Data
- 3D Reconstruction and Gaussian Splats
- AI Agents
Whether you're an artist, programmer, engineer, entrepreneur, student, or filmmaker simply curious about the future of AI, you're welcome here. Our meetings are informal, conversational, and usually take place over excellent local craft beer.
If you're interested in where AI is headed—not just as a chatbot, but as a technology that can understand and generate entire worlds—you'll fit right in.
Check out our sibling meetups:
Upcoming events
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Spatial AI Field Trip: Emergency Management + Public Works Meetup
CNM Montoya Campus, 4700 Morris St NE, Albuquerque, NM, USIf you're interested in Spatial AI, it's worth occasionally looking at the technology that's been making computers spatially aware for decades: Geographic Information Systems.
Esri's 2026 Emergency Management + Public Works Meetup will demonstrate how ArcGIS is used to understand what's happening where—monitoring incidents in real time, analyzing geographic patterns, coordinating resources, managing infrastructure, and connecting field operations with spatial data.That's highly relevant to our broader interest in teaching computers to understand and interact with the physical world—even though this event itself is not billed as a Spatial AI or AI event.
Thursday, September 24 | 9 AM–5 PM
CNM Montoya Campus, Room RB 105, AlbuquerqueRegistration is complimentary; space is limited and registrations are reviewed.
Note: This is an Esri event and is not hosted or sponsored by the Spatial AI Meetup group.
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How Spatial AI Will Transform AI Filmmaking
Nuckolls Brewing, 1611 Alcaldesa St, Santa Fe, NM, USJoin us at Nuckolls Brewing Co. in Santa Fe to discuss spatial AI and AI filmmaking.
Then we’ll walk next door together to Sky Cinema for the opening night of the CLOWD AI Film Festival.
AI can already generate remarkable images, music, voices, and video. But most AI films are still created one shot at a time. What happens when AI begins creating entire worlds too?
Get Your Kicks on Central Avenue (YouTube: Chuck Webster & Bret Dingley)
One example is Get Your Kicks on Central Avenue, an AI-assisted music video celebrating Albuquerque’s historic Route 66. Like many of today’s AI films, it shows both how impressive these new tools have become—and where they may be headed next.
Today's AI excels at creating convincing images and video. The next generation of AI may actually understand the worlds it creates.
Imagine asking AI to build a believable, explorable version of Central Avenue. Instead of generating one shot after another, the AI creates a world you can explore. The buildings stay where they belong. Cameras move naturally. Characters remain consistent. Making a movie becomes less about prompting individual shots and more about directing inside an AI-created world.
In this informal meetup over beer, we’ll explore:- How today’s AI filmmaking works
- How AI is beginning to understand three-dimensional worlds
- Why this tech may change much more than filmmaking
No technical background is required. If you’re curious about AI, movies, or the future of creative technology, you’ll fit right in.
We'll finish just in time to walk next door together for the opening night of the CLOWD AI Film Festival and see today's AI filmmaking on the big screen.
This Spatial AI meetup is unaffiliated with CLOWD AI Film Festival.
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Past events
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