Stability AI is expanding its generative AI toolkit with the release of Stable Virtual Camera, a new model designed to transform static images into immersive videos complete with realistic depth and dynamic camera angles.
Announced in a company blog post, Stable Virtual Camera taps into the power of AI to generate “novel views” from one or multiple images — up to 32 inputs per scene. Users can customize camera paths or choose from presets like Spiral, Dolly Zoom, Move, and Pan to create videos that mimic cinematic movements once reserved for professional filmmaking and 3D animation.
Traditionally, virtual cameras help creators navigate digital 3D environments in real-time. With this latest model, Stability AI blends that concept with generative AI to give users much greater control and flexibility. Stable Virtual Camera generates video sequences from 2D images, simulating depth and perspective shifts that were previously challenging to achieve.
The model supports square (1:1), portrait (9:16), and landscape (16:9) formats and can create videos up to 1,000 frames long. However, Stability notes that quality may dip with certain content types—particularly scenes featuring humans, animals, or complex textures like flowing water.
“Scenes with ambiguous details or intersecting camera paths may trigger flickering or visual artifacts,” the company cautioned, especially when target viewpoints deviate significantly from the source images.
Currently offered as a research preview, Stable Virtual Camera is free for non-commercial use and available for download on Hugging Face, one of the leading platforms for AI development tools.
This release marks another step forward for Stability AI, the company best known for Stable Diffusion, the popular text-to-image model that sparked a wave of AI-generated art. Despite facing financial troubles and leadership shakeups last year, Stability is pushing forward with new releases to rebuild momentum.
The company’s turbulent year included leadership changes, lost partnerships, and investor concerns. Former CEO Emad Mostaque faced criticism for mismanagement, which reportedly led to missed opportunities, including a canceled deal with Canva.
Since then, Stability AI has brought on new leadership and added James Cameron, the director of Titanic, to its board. The company has also released several new AI models, including a recent collaboration with Arm to bring AI-generated audio to mobile devices.
With the launch of Stable Virtual Camera, Stability is signaling a renewed focus on AI-driven creative tools—this time targeting the fast-growing demand for AI-powered video generation and virtual cinematography.
