Spline Becomes First 3D Design Platform to Enable Designers to Ship Interactive Experiences Cross-platform

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Spline Becomes First 3D Design Platform to Enable Designers to Ship Interactive Experiences Cross-platform

2024-08-14 00:01 Last Updated At：00:11

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 13, 2024--

Spline, the collaborative 3D design platform, today announced the addition of Android support, making it possible for the first time ever to design for Android in 3D, build the interactions, and ship natively to any spatial device, mobile application, or website without using code. It is now the only 3D design platform to enable these capabilities across both the Android and Apple ecosystems. Spline also debuted a number of features, including its real-time API and WebHooks, which can connect with AI to create rich interactive AI experiences in 3D.

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In addition to Spline’s new capabilities, the company also announced that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Third Point Ventures, with participation from Gradient Ventures, Y Combinator, Firestreak, Jorn van Dijk (CEO of Framer), and Guillermo Rauch (CEO of Vercel). Third Point Partner Dan Moskowitz joined the company’s board of directors. Funds will be used for ongoing product development, with a particular emphasis on bringing AI to 3D designers and simplifying the creative process to further excite Spline’s rapidly growing user base. This user base has doubled over the past 12 months, and the Spline community has already designed more than 7 million scenes.

"We were blown away by how easy it was to create and collaborate inside Spline and push designs into production," said Dan Moskowitz, Partner at Third Point Ventures. "The up-to-now standard 3D design tools, most of which first came out decades ago, are not approachable. They take a lot of time to get productive. Spline's early traction, and the novel use-cases that users are coming up with, show that it is changing the way people think about 3D and how 3D can add value."

Delivering the Future of Content Creation

Spline offers a web-based collaborative platform that enables designers to create stunning 3D content and interactive experiences without coding. The company's user-friendly interface and powerful features have attracted millions of creators globally, from individual designers to large enterprises.

“Previously, the only way to make interactive 3D for mobile was to use a game engine, which was problematic. It simply did not make sense for a designer to learn how to use something as complex as a game engine when trying to make 3D content for an app, so we figured out a way to fundamentally change this,” said Alejandro León, founder and CEO of Spline. “3D is the future for content creation. We strive to make it as simple and compelling as possible by giving designers the superpowers they need to transform ideas into production-ready experiences.”

Spline now expands its cross-platform support with the Android ecosystem - enabling people to make 3D not only for phones and tablets, but also smart watches, smart TVs, Android Auto, and more. This follows Spline’s announcement of support for the Apple ecosystem (including the Vision Pro), ensuring 3D content can be experienced anywhere.

In addition to Android support, Spline also rolled out:

Spline also offers AI Generation tools that integrate with their comprehensive 3D editor, including features like 3D vector editing, motion, interactive experiences, physics, particles, and much more.

Since its inception, Spline has garnered praise from the design community for its intuitive interface and tooling. The platform has been adopted by leading companies spanning a range of sectors, showcasing its versatility and potential to transform 3D design workflows.

“We just rebranded Alloy, with Spline as part of our toolkit for generating top-notch assets we can use across social media, landing pages, videos, and more. I love how polished the 3D looks, not to mention the interactive capabilities,” said Filipe Soares, Design Lead at Alloy Integrations. “Spline came at the right time. I have full control over the creative and implementation processes, and we no longer need to rely on heavy tools like Cinema 4D or work through time-consuming Three.js code. Sometimes, all we need is a tool that solves our problems really fast without compromising quality.”

As the demand for 3D content continues to grow across industries, from e-commerce to gaming to spatial computing, Spline is the leading platform for designers looking to create immersive, interactive, production-ready 3D experiences.

To learn more about Spline’s latest features, check out this video. Find out more about how Spline’s customers are using the platform here.

About Spline

Spline was founded in 2020 by Alejandro Leon, a lifelong 3D designer, as a web-based, no-code 3D design platform with real-time collaboration. Spline is dedicated to revolutionizing 3D design by making it accessible to anyone with a web browser. Spline has enabled millions of designers to create interactive 3D experiences and share scenes in any modern web browser while using a familiar design process. To get started easily, Spline designers can use templates from the Library, remix each other's work straight from the in-app Spline Community, or use AI features to expand their design possibilities. For more information about Spline and to try the platform, visithttps://spline.design/.

About Third Point Ventures:

Since 2000, Third Point Ventures, the venture capital arm of the asset manager Third Point LLC, has pursued opportunities in multistage investments in private companies with exceptional management teams, sustainable technical advantages, optimal timing, and in opportunities where risk/reward are in balance based on disciplined selection, structure, and entry valuation. We bring deep technical expertise, a strong network of relationships, extensive go-to-market experience, and insights from our decades of global public markets investing to add value to our partners throughout their journey from idea to IPO and beyond. Information about Third Point Ventures and our investments may be found at https://www.thirdpointventures.com/.

Sharks drew crowds who swam with them off Israel's coast — until one man disappeared

2025-04-23 01:16 Last Updated At：01:21

HADERA, Israel (AP) — Israeli police on Tuesday scoured the Mediterranean coast for a swimmer they fear may have been attacked by a shark in an area that has long seen close encounters between marine predators and beachgoers who sometimes seek them out.

A shiver of endangered dusky and sandbar sharks has been swimming close to the area for years, attracting onlookers who approach the sharks, drawing pleas from conservation groups for authorities to separate people from the wild animal.

Nature groups say those warnings went unheeded. Police and rescue workers launched a search along the coast after reports that a shark attacked a swimmer on a beach near the city of Hadera. Israel’s Fire and Rescue Authority announced Tuesday afternoon they had found remains of a body, which was brought to the forensic institute for identification.

On Tuesday, the beach was closed as search teams used boats and underwater equipment to look for the man. His identity was not immediately known, but Israeli media said he had gone to swim with the sharks.

Israelis flocked in large numbers to the beach during a weeklong holiday, sharing the waters with a dozen or more sharks. Some tugged on the sharks’ fins, while others threw them fish to eat. Dusky sharks can grow to 4 meters (13 feet) long and weigh about 350 kilograms (750 pounds). Sandbar sharks are smaller, growing to about 2.5 meters (8 feet) and 100 kilograms (220 pounds).

Yigael Ben-Ari, head of marine rangers at the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, said it was not known how the man behaved around the sharks. But he said the public should know not to enter the water when sharks are present and not to touch or play with them.

One video shared by Israeli media showed a shark swimming right up to bathers in thigh-deep water.

“What a huge shark!” the man filming exclaims, as the shark approaches him. “Whoa! He’s coming toward us!”

“Don’t move!” he implores a boy standing nearby, who replies: “I’m leaving.”

The man then asks: “What, are you afraid of the sharks?”

The behavior, some of which was witnessed by an Associated Press photographer two days before the attack, flew in the face of the advice of the parks authority.

“Like every wild animal, the sharks’ behavior may be unpredictable,” the authority said in a statement.

This would be just the third recorded shark attack in Israel, according to Ben-Ari. One person was killed in an attack in the 1940s.

The area, where warm water released by a nearby power plant flows into the sea, has for years attracted dozens of sharks between October and May. Ben-Ari said swimming is prohibited in the area, but swimmers enter the water anyway.

“It would have been appropriate to take steps to preserve and regulate public safety, but over the years, chaos has developed in the area,” the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, an environmental group, said in a statement.

It said fishermen, boats, divers, surfers and snorkelers intersected dangerously with a wild animal that “is not accustomed to being around crowds of people.”

SPNI said further steps were needed to prevent similar incidents, like designating a safe zone from where people could view the sharks without swimming close to them.

Israeli authorities on Monday closed the beach and others nearby and they remained closed Tuesday.

Goldenberg reported from Jerusalem.