Overview
- Project Genie is an experimental web app powered by Genie 3 with Nano Banana Pro and Gemini that lets users create, explore, and remix short interactive worlds from text or images.
- Sessions are capped at 60 seconds and render at about 720p and 20–24 fps, a limit DeepMind links to per-session dedicated hardware and the compute cost of real-time world generation.
- Safety systems block explicit content and recognizable copyrighted styles or IP, with reporters noting Disney-like outputs were filtered after the company received a cease-and-desist in December.
- Early hands-on tests report inventive results alongside visible limits in realism, physics consistency, control latency, and unresponsive navigation, with some announced features not yet present.
- Access is starting for U.S.-based Google AI Ultra subscribers aged 18 and over, with third-party reports pricing the plan at $249.99 per month and Google indicating plans to expand availability.