HY-WorldPlay
Tencent Hunyuan · Released 17 December 2025
HY-World 1.5 (WorldPlay) is Tencent's streaming world model: it turns keyboard and mouse input into camera movement in real time and keeps the scene geometrically consistent when you return to a place.
- Weights
- Open weightsTencent HY-WorldPlay Community License
- Commercial use
- Custom terms
- Real-time
- Real-time, per authorsNot independently measured
- Where to try
- Run it yourself
01 Controls
What you control
- Keyboard and mouse
- A camera trajectory
- A starting image or text prompt
02 License
Can you use it commercially?
Only under its own license (Tencent HY-WorldPlay Community License). Not licensed in the European Union, the United Kingdom or South Korea. Services above 1 million monthly active users need a separate license from Tencent.
Declared license: Tencent HY-WorldPlay Community License · Model card
A reading of the published license text, not legal advice.
03 Speed
Does it run in real time?
Real-time, per authors. Real-time latency with streaming generation.
Figures are the authors' own, with their settings and hardware. They are not comparable across models.
04 Setup
How to run it
- 01Create a Python 3.10 conda environment and install requirements.txt and an attention library (SageAttention or flash-attn).
- 02Run python download_models.py with your Hugging Face token to fetch every required model.
- 03Set the model paths it prints and run the HunyuanVideo-based inference, steering the camera with a pose string or a trajectory.
Summarised from the project's own instructions. Follow the source for exact commands and versions.
05 Access
Where to try it
No hosted version was verified. Run the published weights yourself.
Listed alphabetically. Windflow maintains this directory and is one of the hosts; a listing does not promise capacity at any given moment.
06 Questions
HY-WorldPlay FAQ
Is HY-WorldPlay open source?
HY-WorldPlay publishes downloadable weights under Tencent HY-WorldPlay Community License. Read the license terms before you build on it.
Can I use HY-WorldPlay commercially?
Only under its own license (Tencent HY-WorldPlay Community License). Not licensed in the European Union, the United Kingdom or South Korea. Services above 1 million monthly active users need a separate license from Tencent.
Does HY-WorldPlay run in real time?
Yes, according to its authors. Real-time latency with streaming generation. This directory has not measured it independently.
Where can I try HY-WorldPlay?
No hosted version was verified; run the published weights yourself.
What does HY-WorldPlay take as input?
You give it keyboard and mouse, a camera trajectory and a starting image or text prompt.
How do I run HY-WorldPlay?
Following the official instructions: Create a Python 3.10 conda environment and install requirements.txt and an attention library (SageAttention or flash-attn). Run python download_models.py with your Hugging Face token to fetch every required model. Set the model paths it prints and run the HunyuanVideo-based inference, steering the camera with a pose string or a trajectory.
What are alternatives to HY-WorldPlay?
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