Meetup #3 Recap: The Three.ws User Group Back in the World
By the three.ws team
On Friday, November 6, the Three.ws User Group on IBM Community met inside three.ws for the second time, in the $THREE home town at three.ws/play. It was the group's third meetup, after the in-world meetup in August and an online live build in between, and the first one IBM Community sponsored. That's a wrap, and this is our account of the hour.
Jessica Swanson at IBM wrote her own recap, Back in the World, in the group, the same way she did after August. She is the reason the group exists: she pushed for three.ws to have its own user group on IBM Community, and she was in the plaza before the doors opened on Friday.
A user group of our own
three.ws is the first project with its own user group on IBM Community. Not a tag on someone else's forum and not a sponsor slot: a group of its own, on IBM's platform, that meets inside the product it exists to discuss. It grew alongside the IBM Business Partnership, and Friday was the first meetup IBM Community sponsored.
This was a different event from August by design. August was an open world that stayed up all day. Friday was one programmed hour for a user group, and it ran like one: a room of people who came on purpose, and who did not have to install anything to be there.
How the hour ran
The world ran its own agenda from one public config file. A countdown chip sat in the plaza from the day before, each segment announced itself with a banner, and nobody shared a screen.
| Time (PT) | Segment |
|---|---|
| 8:00 | Doors open in the plaza, welcome from IBM Community and the team |
| 8:06 | Live build: one sentence becomes a rigged 3D agent |
| 8:14 | Video to Motion: a phone clip becomes an animation |
| 8:20 | Forge into the world with /forge in chat |
| 8:27 | An agent pays for a tool and leaves a receipt |
| 8:33 | Community showcase |
| 8:43 | Open Q&A and what ships next |
| 8:49 | Dance-off |
| 8:55 | Group photo at the totem, then fireworks |
The announcement has the full description of each segment.
The moments we keep
- The signature wall got its first names. The wall near spawn shipped for this meetup and keeps every signature permanently. kunturi signed it first, a few minutes before eight. Falcolina signed second: "falcolina was here".
- People stayed. The program ended at 9:00 Pacific. People kept coming back: Falcolina was in again at 9:40, Ozzxy after 10:00, and Jessica came back in at 9:30 to see who was around.
- Everyone got the souvenir, including the early arrivals. The Orbit Crown, a gold circlet with three pearls, reached everyone in the world during the hour, including people already standing in the plaza when the clock hit eight. It will never be granted again.
What shipped between August and Friday
- Live events in the world: countdown, an agenda that knows what is on now and next, segment banners and a fireworks finale everyone sees at the same moment, computed from a shared clock at zero network cost.
- Event souvenirs: wearables that exist only for the people who were there.
- Video to Motion: any short video becomes motion as GLB, BVH or FBX for any humanoid avatar.
- A world for every device: Play lite for any phone or laptop, a phone-sized world, a concierge that greets first-time visitors, and a photo mode that hands you the photo.
- Safer rooms: report and moderate players in the world, and private, invite-only worlds.
- Provenance by default: every generated and purchased model ships with a signed provenance credential.
- Agents that do business with each other: signed fulfillment records for agent-to-agent hires, owner-signed spend caps, and a REST API for agents with signed webhooks. See three.ws/commerce.
- More places for your avatar: one-paste embeds for WordPress, Framer and Webflow, a Discord Activity, and live lipsync for LiveKit Agents and Pipecat voice pipelines.
Everything three.ws is
- Create: free text-to-3D at three.ws/create, no account. Photo to 3D, selfie to rigged avatar, and a studio suite for fidelity, materials, scenes and AR.
- Animate: no rig allowlist. Any humanoid skeleton (Mixamo, VRM, Daz, Unreal, Blender and more) maps onto one canonical skeleton, so 2,800+ shared animations work on all of them.
- Embed: the
<agent-3d>web component puts a live 3D agent on any site with one script tag, driven from the page's own code. - Worlds: three.ws/play, persistent multiplayer worlds in a browser tab with spatial voice, building, events and an economy. Every community's world is a URL.
- The agent economy: pay-per-call tools for agents with no API keys, settled on Solana with a receipt for every call, plus agent identity, reputation, spend caps and agents hiring agents. See three.ws/x402.
- Developers: docs, a public REST API, 131 open-source @three-ws packages (48 of them MCP servers), and the whole platform on GitHub.
- For IBM builders:
@three-ws/ibm-watsonx-mcpruns watsonx.ai on your own IBM Cloud account,@three-ws/ibm-x402-mcpserves IBM Granite tools with pay-per-call billing (live demo at three.ws/ibm/x402-demo), and three.ws/connect has an IBM Bob tab that writes the MCP entry for you.
Our partners
- IBM Business Partner: announcement, the collaboration, three.ws/ibm/hello. Reported by Business Insider and Yahoo Finance.
- Microsoft: partnership and a live Microsoft Marketplace listing; TRELLIS.2 from Microsoft Research powers our default image-to-3D lane. Announcement
- OpenAI Select Partner. Post
- NVIDIA Inception member, with a self-hosted L4 and Blackwell GPU fleet and a poster submitted to the GTC 2027 call. Post
- Google Cloud for Web3 Startups: the platform and its GPU fleet run on Google Cloud. Post
- AWS Partner with an AWS Marketplace listing. Partner network, Marketplace
- Alibaba Cloud Partner Network, listed on Alibaba Cloud Marketplace. Partner network, Marketplace
- QuickNode Startup Program. Post
- HackerNoon content partnership. Post
- Anthropic MCP Registry listing. Post
The full roster is at three.ws/partners.
What's next
The next session is being planned for late November around one verifiable claim: an AI agent requests a tool, receives a payment challenge, pays for it on its own and returns with a receipt anyone in the room can open. The listing goes up in the group on IBM Community once the date is confirmed. Until then the world is open at three.ws/play, and the signature wall is waiting for your name.
If you were there: post your photo-mode shots in the meetup thread. Thank you to IBM Community for sponsoring the session, and to everyone who came on purpose.
Related
- The Three.ws User Group Meets Inside the World Again on November 6
- The Three.ws User Group's First In-World Meetup: How It Went
- three.ws Is Now an Official IBM Business Partner
three.ws is an IBM Business Partner. IBM does not endorse three.ws, and three.ws is not an IBM product. The Three.ws User Group on IBM Community is a community space three.ws moderates on IBM's platform. IBM is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.