Artificial intelligence
Meta Shows New Progress on Key Tech for Making AR Genuinely Useful
Meta has introduced the Segment Anything Model, which aims to set a new bar for computer-vision-based 'object segmentation'—the ability for computers to understand the difference between individual objects in an image or video. Segmentation will be key for making...
Facebook Develops AI Supersampling to Boost Rendering Performance for High-resolution VR Headsets
Facebook has developed an AI-assisted method for supersampling real-time rendered content, something that could become an integral addition to games coming to future generations of high-resolution VR headsets.
There's an ongoing arms race between display technology and GPUs, and adding...
Fable Studio Pivoting to “Virtual Beings,” Building Stories Around Persistent AI-powered Characters
Fable, founded by former Oculus Story Studio alumni, today announced a distinct pivot in their focus, moving from an immersive storytelling studio to a "virtual beings" company which plans to build persistent, AI-powered, characters which can interact naturally with...
New Startup Artie Wants to Bring AI-driven Avatars to Augmented Reality
Former Felix & Paul chief content officer Ryan Horrigan and former Milk VR and VRSE.works producer Armando Kirwin have banded together to found Artie, a new startup with the mission of bringing AI avatars to augmented reality.
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Hands-on: IBM Watson Brings Voice Commands to ‘Star Trek: Bridge Crew’
IBM Watson, the artificial intelligence platform designed to understand natural language, today launched support for Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017) across PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
Before the service launched today, lone players could control the ship's other posts—Engineering, Tactical, Helm—by clicking...
IBM’s Interactive Media CTO on Using Watson for Game Design, Interactive Narratives, & Conversational Interfaces
Machine Learning has the potential to revolutionize so many different aspects of our lives, and it's starting to enter into game development with IBM's Watson.
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For instance, developers could integrate cloud-based AI services into...
The White House on the AI Revolution: Policy, Privacy, & GPUs
Artificial Intelligence has the potential to disrupt so many different dimensions of our society that the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy recently announced a series of four public workshops to look at some of the possible...
Immersive Artificial Intelligence — It’ll Take More Than Life-like Graphics to Make True VR
As I've watched a friend play Skyrim over the last few days, I've been blown away by the immense world that Bethesda has created. Not only is it huge, but it's rather beautiful as well. "Slap on an HMD," I thought, "and this would be...
