The World's Only: XGRIDS PortalCam Wins Four NAB 2026 Product of the Year Awards
At the NAB Show—one of the most influential events in global broadcasting and film technology—XGRIDS achieved a significant milestone: its spatial camera, the PortalCam, was awarded four Product of the Year honors across four categories: Intelligent Technology, Graphics, Editing and Visual Effects, and Photography Equipment & Remote Production.
Winning awards across multiple categories signifies that its domain-specific innovations not only represent breakthroughs in a single technological direction but also have gained industry recognition across key stages of film and television production. The organizers described its spatial intelligence technology as "one of the most cutting-edge innovative intelligent technologies in the film and television industry today," noting its profound impact on the sector's future development.
Behind These Four Awards Lies a Transformation in the Industry Paradigm
Amid the rapidly evolving global landscape of artificial intelligence competition, spatial intelligence—serving as the critical nexus connecting the digital and physical worlds—is garnering widespread attention from the industry. Leading spatial intelligence enterprises, exemplified by XGRIDS, have developed comprehensive capabilities spanning from technology R&D to industrial-scale applications, gradually establishing their technological influence in the international market.
The NAB Show has long served as a global benchmark for film, television, broadcasting, and content production technologies. Each year, technology companies, media organizations, and creators from around the world gather to showcase and select the most groundbreaking products and solutions. The NAB Show Annual Product Awards are renowned for their rigorous evaluation criteria, which prioritize not only technological advancement but also a product's ability to transform actual industry workflows.
Winning four major awards and standing out on such a stage demonstrates that XGRIDS's spatial intelligence technology not only features cutting-edge innovation but also holds immense potential to transform industry workflows.
PortalCam: Defining a True Space Camera
For a long time, film and television production has relied on high-cost, time-consuming on-location shooting and post-production reconstruction processes. The emergence of spatial intelligence and 3D Gaussian technology is transforming "digitalization of the real world" into a more efficient and direct production method. The PortalCam serves as the pivotal gateway to this transformation.
The PortalCam is a spatial camera developed by XGRIDS, capable of transforming real-world environments into vivid 3D models. Its core value extends beyond mere "photography"—it enables high-quality spatial data collection in motion through integrated multi-camera and LiDAR sensing, directly converting the physical world into an interactive, editable, and shareable 3D digital space. When paired with XGRIDS's LCC (Lixel Cyber Color) Studio software, the system automates data processing and editing, significantly lowering the barrier to 3D content creation.
This means that processes traditionally requiring multi-team collaboration and weeks to complete can now be finished in less time while maintaining higher fidelity.
XGRIDS's Innovation Solution Integrated into the Film & Television Workflow
The emergence of spatial intelligence and 3D Gaussian technology means that numerous stages in the film and television workflow—from location scouting to virtual production, and from pre-production to XR live streaming—which have long relied on human expertise and costly reconstruction, are now being redefined. Prior to its award at the NAB Show, XGRIDS's innovative spatial intelligence solution had already undergone practical validation in multiple leading global film and television projects.
Resurrection: Integration of On-site Scouting and Virtual Set Design
During the production of the film Resurrection, the PortalCam was employed for preliminary location scouting and digital spatial data acquisition. The scanned scenes could be directly utilized for set design, lighting planning, and camera movement simulation.
South Korea's SBS Broadcasting Station: Real-time XR Live Broadcast
SBS, a leading broadcaster in South Korea, has officially launched its AIXR Studio, becoming the first broadcaster to integrate 3DGS and XR technologies into live news production. Through collaboration with XGRIDS, SBS captures real-world scenes and transforms them into immersive 3D environments, enabling anchors to seamlessly switch between various live broadcast scenarios.
In Collaboration with Apple TV: Shrinking Pioneers Innovative Virtual Filming
During the production of the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, XGRIDS collaborated on virtual filming, conducting spatial scanning and digital reconstruction of the shooting scenes in advance. The scenes were directly projected onto LED screens, allowing actors to perform in real-time within the virtual environment—a "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" filming approach that minimized reliance on post-production compositing.
Moving Towards a Broader Future of Spatial Intelligence
The next step for AI is to truly integrate into the physical world. Whether through embodied intelligence, robotics, industrial simulation, or digital twins, these approaches all address a fundamental challenge: AI must develop an accurate understanding of the real three-dimensional world—namely, construct a "world model" that encompasses spatial structures, object relationships, and physical laws. The prerequisite for such a world model is precise perception and reconstruction of the physical world. This constitutes the core value of spatial intelligence: it serves as the gateway for AI to comprehend the physical world and marks its first step in transitioning from the digital realm to the real world.
The technological pathway of XGRIDS is precisely constructed along this logical framework. High-precision spatial data is collected using spatial cameras, reconstructed into high-fidelity 3D environments through 3D Gaussian technology, and then edited and deployed via LCC Studio, forming a complete closed-loop process spanning perception, reconstruction, understanding, and creation. This workflow represents one of the most efficient and comprehensive approaches for transforming the real world into AI-ready 3D data—converting physical environments into world models that AI can comprehend, reason from, and create.
XGRIDS is currently the world's only spatial intelligence company that has established a complete closed-loop system encompassing "full-scenario 3D Gaussian data acquisition, generation, compression, editing, and application deployment." Its award at the NAB Show underscores the industry's high recognition of its spatial intelligence and 3D Gaussian technologies. As film, gaming, XR, and AI continue to converge, 3D spatial data is increasingly becoming the foundation for next-generation content production.
And XGRIDS serves precisely as the gateway to this foundation.
