Interactive Simulations in Gemini
Gemini now lets you play with the concepts you ask about
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Gemini can now transform complex topics into custom, interactive 3D visualizations directly within your chat. Instead of static text, get functional simulations you can manipulate in real-time. Just ask Gemini to “show me” or “help me visualize.”
PH · launched Apr 12, 2026 · 411 upvotes (top 16%) · 0 views
Niche: conversational ai platforms · 84 launches, 8 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Education
- Content generation
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Online Learning
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Could you build this?
No Generating interactive, physics-accurate or topologically sound 3D simulations dynamically on the fly from an LLM prompt inside a chat canvas requires advanced 3D procedural generation, rendering shaders, and massive foundation model capabilities.
What it would actually take: The frontend requires a sandboxed WebGL/WebGPU runtime (Three.js or custom engine) combined with an LLM trained or heavily fine-tuned to produce functional declarative code (like React Three Fiber, GLSL shaders, or custom physics DSLs) that compile without runtime errors. The hard part is the foundational model's ability to reliably output functioning mathematical simulations and interactive state logic without syntax or physics bugs, requiring substantial custom RLHF and specialized simulation datasets.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 262 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #52 of 263 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 165 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Notebooks in Gemini · ph · 2026-04-18 · 315 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Gemini Personal Intelligence · ph · 2026-04-25 · 282 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Let ChatGPT create interactive forms and surveys for you · hn · 2025-12-16 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- File Generation in Gemini · ph · 2026-04-30 · 165 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Gemini 3.8 & 3.8 Live Extended Thinking · ph · 2026-09-16 · 213 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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