{"id":8189,"date":"2026-02-18T09:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyber-valley.de\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8189"},"modified":"2026-10-29T19:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:34:26","slug":"cyber-valley-start-up-meshcapade-draws-epic-games-to-tubingen","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/cyber-valley.de\/de\/news\/cyber-valley-start-up-meshcapade-draws-epic-games-to-tubingen\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber\u00a0Valley Start-up Meshcapade draws Epic Games to T\u00fcbingen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/meshcapade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><br><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/meshcapade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meshcapade<\/a>\u00a0has been acquired by Epic Games.\u00a0As part of the acquisition, Epic Games is establishing a presence in Cyber\u00a0Valley. The Meshcapade team will join Epic\u2019s AI research team, contributing to technologies for Unreal Engine and MetaHuman.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meshcapade, is\u00a0a spin-off of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in T\u00fcbingen\u00a0and one of the earliest members of the Cyber\u00a0Valley Start-up Network.\u00a0The start-up\u00a0develops advanced technologies for the creation and animation of digital humans. Founded in 2018, the start-up received the inaugural Max Planck Startup Award from the\u00a0Stifterverband\u00a0in 2022.\u00a0Epic Games is\u00a0a U.S. game developer and creator of Unreal Engine, a game development\u00a0technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meshcapade\u2019s&nbsp;technology builds on the Institute\u2019s SMPL (Skinned Multi-Person Linear) body model, a highly realistic 3D representation of the human body trained on thousands of 3D scans. Licensed through Max Planck Innovation, the technology transfer arm of the Max Planck Society, SMPL has become the de facto standard for 3D human representation in both academia and industry. The technology was developed by co-founders Naureen Mahmood and Talha&nbsp;Zaman&nbsp;together with Michael J. Black, Director&nbsp;of&nbsp;Perceiving&nbsp;Systems&nbsp;at MPI-IS.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;Meshcapade&nbsp;team will now join Epic Games, which is opening a new office in T\u00fcbingen. This move strengthens Epic\u2019s presence in Cyber\u00a0Valley, one of Europe\u2019s leading AI innovation ecosystems, and underscores the region\u2019s role as a hub for&nbsp;cutting-edge&nbsp;research and industry collaboration in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and digital human technologies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full news story from the Max Planck Society here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mpg.de\/26082348\/max-planck-spin-off-meshcapade-draws-epic-games-to-tuebingen\">https:\/\/www.mpg.de\/26082348\/max-planck-spin-off-meshcapade-draws-epic-games-to-tuebingen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8206,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"cv-tag":[294,332,344],"location":[],"network-role":[],"news-category":[378],"user-group":[242,243,244,245,247],"class_list":["post-8189","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cv-tag-start-up-network","cv-tag-entrepreneurship","cv-tag-innovation-economy","news-category-start-up-network","user-group-start-up","user-group-investor","user-group-corporate","user-group-researcher","user-group-phd-student"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cyber Valley Start-up Meshcapade draws Epic Games to T\u00fcbingen - Cyber Valley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cyber-valley.de\/de\/news\/cyber-valley-start-up-meshcapade-draws-epic-games-to-tubingen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cyber Valley Start-up Meshcapade draws Epic Games to T\u00fcbingen - Cyber Valley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Meshcapade\u00a0has been acquired by Epic Games.\u00a0As part of the acquisition, Epic Games is establishing a presence in Cyber\u00a0Valley. 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