3Lateral develops innovative technologies enabling digitization of human motion and appearance at unprecedented level of realism.
Our team covers the full set of solutions that bring to life convincing and interactive digital humans - from 3D and 4D face and body data capture infrastructure as 3Lateral technologies (Sunflower Framework ©), over large scale data storaging and processing in our data center and compression algorithms aimed to allow simulation of realistic facial gesticulation and facial appearance (based on Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Functions) with proprietary developed digital bio-kinetic articulation systems as a part of our Software solution (Meta Human Framework ©).
We have been recognized as pioneers and innovators in the gaming industry in setting the pipeline and executing projects such as: Marvel`s Spiderman, Electronic Arts Star Wars Battlefront II, Battlefield I, Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Rockstar Games Grand Theft Auto IV and V, Red Dead Redemption I and II and many more. Our technology itself is already being used in domain of artificial intelligence, and further application is expected in domains of mobile and automotive systems, medicine and bio-metrics, and in the fields of robotics, genetics, and forensics.
In 2019. 3Lateral has become a part of Epic Games, Unreal Engine team with clear association on digital human, navigating the travel of future digital world. In February 2021, 3Lateral as a part of the Unreal Engine team, announced the MetaHuman Creator platform which enables anyone to create state-of-the-art, fully rigged characters that are free to use in Unreal Engine. MetaHuman Creator is delivered as a cloud-streamed app that cuts production time for digital humans from weeks or even months to less than an hour, while delivering an unprecedented quality, fidelity, and realism.
