Hosted StreamDiffusion - Daydream Blog

How Common Index built An Ecology of Beasts on Daydream

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.

May 7, 2026 • 7 min read

Hosted StreamDiffusion

What is hosted StreamDiffusion, and why TouchDesigner creators should care

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.

Apr 10, 2026 • 8 min read