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At Groove Jones, we’re always exploring how emerging technologies can unlock new forms of storytelling. For Etzanoa, an immersive historical VR experience for Meta Quest 3, we combined generative AI workflows, ComfyUI, and Gaussian Splats to recreate one of the largest Native American settlements ever encountered by early Spanish explorers.

The goal wasn’t simply to generate pretty images. It was to build a believable, explorable historical world grounded in research, guided by subject matter experts, and optimized for standalone VR hardware.

Inspired by the structure and immersive storytelling techniques used across other Groove Jones XR experiences, the Etzanoa project explored a different challenge: how AI-assisted pipelines could accelerate accurate historical worldbuilding for immersive education and storytelling.