For decades, AI Humans have existed only in fiction. From Blade Runner 2049’s replicants to Her’s disembodied companion, we’ve dreamed of digital beings that could understand, feel, and coexist with us. But these visions stayed trapped on screen—because real-time virtual avatars were simply too expensive, too slow, and too computationally heavy to exist in the wild.

The past few years have seen an explosion of progress in generative AI. Large language models gave us intelligence. Diffusion models gave us faces, voices, and motion. Together, they redefined what it means to “create” a human.

But while the world marveled at text-to-image tools and talking 2D avatars, the true challenge lay ahead: real-time 3D.

Creating digital humans that could move, emote, and respond in physical space — not as videos or pre-rendered clips, but as living, breathing entities.

This is where Spatial Walk enters the scene.

Spatial Walk is built on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) — a revolutionary rendering method that compresses and reconstructs 3D scenes at speeds previously thought impossible. Unlike traditional 3D modeling, which depends on polygon-heavy pipelines, 3DGS represents reality through millions of “splats” of light, capturing both geometry and texture in astonishing fidelity.

The result: a digital human that feels alive, rendered in real time, running on commodity hardware.

A technology once reserved for Hollywood studios can now fit in the hands of a creator or a brand.

Spatial Walk’s core team, composed of top-tier engineers and researchers from leading computer vision labs, has pushed this frontier further—developing their own proprietary rendering acceleration engine, reducing latency significantly while maintaining cinematic quality. For applications in education, entertainment, gaming and virtual companionship, this breakthrough is transformative.

At the center of it all is the founder, Hang — a rebel with a vision and gravity that pulls people in.

Hang has spent over seven years as a product manager at leading Internet companies like Tencent, but he’s always been the one challenging the status quo. Entrepreneur at heart, he built a matchmaking app in college and eventually quit his stable career to start Spatial Walk — right when Apple unveiled the Vision Pro.

Excited by what he saw as a once-in-a-generation platform shift, Hang flew to New York and queued outside the Apple Store just to be among the first to experience the device. That moment crystallized his belief: the next computing revolution won’t happen on screens, but in presence.

Beyond his technical insight, Hang possesses a rare magnetism. He draws in exceptional engineers, machine learning researchers, and ecosystem partners — people who are inspired by his conviction that the boundary between the real and the virtual will soon dissolve.

When I once asked him where that “superpower” comes from, he said:

“I guess I just can’t stop telling people around me what I believe is right, even if they disagree — it’s almost like preaching.”

At Impa Ventures, we believe that technologies like AI and crypto aren’t just trends — they’re foundational shifts reshaping how value, intelligence, and creativity flow in the digital age. For us, Spatial Walk represents more than a company. It’s the beginning of a movement — one that redefines how humans and machines share reality.