Estuary

AI Characters that See & Remember

Ship characters with persistent memory and multimodal perception without building the ML pipeline.

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End-to-End Character Infra

Everything needed to bring your AI characters from idea to reality.

Creation

Codelessly author your character once and deploy it everywhere: smartglasses, web, mobile, and more.

Infrastructure

Advanced capabilities including low-latency conversations, multimodal, multiagent, and multiplayer support.

Persistence

Characters that remember. Long-term user relationships and spatial awareness through world models.

Ownership

Your data, your infra, your AI. Deploy on private cloud, on-premise, or on-device with complete control.

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Research & Recognition

Validated by academia and the builder community.

Hackathon Wins

MIT Reality Hack 2026 - Best AR Utility (Qualcomm) + 2nd Place XR Health & Wellness Research & Design Track

Forget Me Not

Built in 48 hours. A smartglass AI character that remembers a user's life context: names, tasks, routes home and retrieves it through natural conversation. Powered by Estuary's persistent memory and real-time voice pipeline running on RayNeo X3 Pro glasses.

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MIT Reality Hack 2025 - Best Use of Apple Vision Pro

Paw Pals Connect

Built in 60 hours. Multiple users share a space with AI pets that learn about their owners through conversation, then autonomously connect compatible owners by initiating play sessions with each other. Powered by Estuary's multiuser support and multiagent coordination on Apple Vision Pro.

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Published Research

User-centered design study from CHI 2025 paper

ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Case Study 2025

Optimizing SIA Development: A Case Study in User-Centered Design for Estuary

Interviews with leading AI agent researchers validated the problem Estuary addresses: teams building AI characters face a choice between patching together generic APIs or building custom infrastructure from scratch. Researchers voiced that platform & deployment agnosticity, persistent memory, and multimodal perception - Estuary's core capabilities - are the most critical unmet needs.

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Estuary framework architecture diagram from IVA 2024 paper

ACM Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2024

Estuary: A Framework For Building Multimodal Low-Latency Real-Time Socially Interactive Agents

Introduces Estuary's core architecture: a modular, off-cloud framework for building multimodal AI characters with low-latency real-time interaction. Demonstrates how Estuary's design enables characters to run entirely off-cloud for full data privacy while maintaining real-time response across text, audio, and vision modalities.

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