# Christoph Lassner

> Christoph Lassner is a computer vision and graphics researcher, World Labs co-founder and current advisor whose work has moved from reconstructing people in photographs to building interactive 3D worlds. His career spans academic research in Tübingen, Body Labs and Amazon, Meta Reality Labs, Epic Games, and a 2025 TED talk about participatory storytelling.

- **Role:** Advisor to World Labs; co-founder
- **Organizations:** World Labs, Epic Games, Meta Reality Labs Research, Amazon, Body Labs, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Tübingen, University of Augsburg
- **Education:** Diplom in Computer Science, University of Augsburg, PhD in Computer Science, University of Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
- **Known for:** Co-founded World Labs, the spatial intelligence company behind Marble., Created Pulsar, later used as the sphere-based renderer in PyTorch3D., Built the human pose estimation system used in Amazon Halo.

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Completed a computer science Diplom at the University of Augsburg.
- **2016** — Co-authored Keep it SMPL and described his research on recognizing full human bodies in images in a Max Planck interview.
- **2017** — Published A Generative Model of People in Clothing with Gerard Pons-Moll and Peter Gehler; worked at Body Labs, later acquired by Amazon.
- **2019** — Joined Facebook Reality Labs Research, later Meta Reality Labs Research.
- **2021** — Published Pulsar: Efficient Sphere-based Neural Rendering with Michael Zollhöfer.
- **2022** — Moved into research leadership at Epic Games.
- **2024** — Co-founded World Labs with Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson and Ben Mildenhall.
- **2025** — Presented a TEDAI Vienna talk about interactive storytelling and Content 3.0; World Labs launched Marble.
- **2026** — Announced he was stepping away from his operating role at World Labs and would continue supporting it as an advisor.

## Achievements

- Co-founded World Labs, the spatial intelligence company behind Marble.
- Created Pulsar, later used as the sphere-based renderer in PyTorch3D.
- Built the human pose estimation system used in Amazon Halo.
- Received an honorable mention at the ACM Multimedia Open-Source Software Competition 2016 for decision-forest software.
- Co-authored research on 3D human pose, neural avatars and interactive rendering.
- Delivered a TEDAI Vienna talk on interactive storytelling in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Said he would step away from his operating role at World Labs and continue as an advisor.
- **2025-11** — World Labs made its Marble world model available to the public.
- **2025-09** — Gave a TEDAI Vienna talk on interactive, AI-powered storytelling.

## Links

- Website: https://christophlassner.de/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-lassner-475a669b
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/chlassner
- GitHub: https://github.com/classner

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Last updated: 2026-09-29