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    "headline": "Each Player Ran a World Model. Their Views Still Had to Agree.",
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    "dek": "WorldCast exchanges player and scene states between local generators instead of coordinating every view through one central generator.",
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    "body_text": "WorldCast gives each player a local video generator and state model, estimating position from generated video and controls. Clients exchange player states, project them into camera-aligned fields and share scene information so independently generated views can remain consistent. Counter-Strike 2 experiments reported real-time clients and player-rendering rates more than an order of magnitude above joint-generation methods. Shared scene state improved appearance consistency across whole rounds, and image quality remained stable in hour-long rollouts. The system exchanges states rather than centrally generating every view. This is an experimental multiplayer world-model architecture, not an announced online game or a guarantee of consistency in arbitrary environments.",
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      "Clients exchange player states, project them into camera-aligned fields and share scene information so independently generated views can remain consistent.",
      "This is an experimental multiplayer world-model architecture, not an announced online game or a guarantee of consistency in arbitrary environments."
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      "title": "arXiv preprint 2610.12412, original v1",
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