Open-weights joint audio-video models hit a usable bar this spring, and a single, local GPU card now runs a real-time conversational avatar end to end. Here's where self-hosting with LTX 2.3 and Daydream Scope beats a third-party cloud API, and where it doesn't.
For seven days at Milan Design Week 2026, Common Index ran a generative landscape that responded to visitors and weather in real time, with no on-site GPU. Here's how An Ecology of Beasts came together on Daydream's hosted StreamDiffusion.
The real pain users hit in Scope's classical UI was composition. Combining a generation model, frame interpolation, community nodes, and hardware controllers into one pipeline was harder than it needed to be. Here's why we moved to a node graph.
Hosted StreamDiffusion is Daydream's managed version of the StreamDiffusion real-time pipeline, working with TouchDesigner through the Daydream API. You run StreamDiffusionTD as you always have, but the inference runs on our GPUs. No NVIDIA card, Python, or CUDA setup needed, and it works on any OS.
We're launching the Scope Developer Skill for Claude Code. It gives your coding agent verified knowledge of Scope's REST API, WebRTC streaming, node system, and pipeline architecture so you can build custom nodes, integrations, and creative tools with working code on the first try.
DMX in Scope connects your lighting console to real-time AI video generation. Control Scope's parameters from any Art-Net source, map DMX channels to generation settings, and unify your visuals and lighting from a single desk.
MIDI in Scope enables hands-on control of real-time AI-generated video. Map any knob, fader, or pad to generation parameters with a learn-based system. Save mappings, switch profiles, sync to tempo via MIDI clock.
Scope supports OSC natively for real-time parameter control over the network. Adjust prompts, generation intensity, and pipeline settings from TouchDesigner, Resolume, TouchOSC, or any app that speaks OSC.
Scope now sends and receives real-time AI video over your network via NDI - connecting to Resolume, OBS, TouchDesigner, and any NDI-compatible app on any machine.
This week we're running our first Launch Week, and it's all about integrations. Over the next five days, we'll be walking through how Scope connects with the creative tools you already use.
Autoregressive video generation models can stream video in real-time, but they lack the control capabilities that batch models have: reference guidance, structural conditioning, selective editing.
On October 20, 2025, Daydream brought together the leading voices in real-time AI and generative video by hosting the first-of-its-kind Realtime Video AI Summit.