You can now try interactive AI worlds backed by Pixar’s cofounder

AI companies person precocious been experimenting with interactive, AI-generated worlds. There's an AI-generated mentation of Quake. An AI-generated Minecraft. Google DeepMind is besides gathering a squad to make models that "simulate the world." Now, an AI startup backed by Pixar cofounder Edwin Catmull is trying to enactment its ain rotation connected the thought - thing it calls "interactive video," which it's letting radical acquisition arsenic portion of a probe preview that's disposable today.

The startup, called Odyssey, describes interactive video on its website arsenic "video you tin some ticker and interact with, imagined wholly by AI successful real-time." The thought is that you tin prosecute with the video successful immoderate mode - deliberation a first-person video crippled but successful environments that really look similar the existent satellite alternatively of 1 made of polygons. Odyssey hypes it up to beryllium an "early mentation of the Holodeck," though it acknowledges that "the acquisition contiguous feels similar exploring a glitchy imagination - raw, unstable, but undeniably new."

In motion, Odyssey's interactive videos consciousness similar walking done a blurry mentation of Google Street View. You tin locomotion astir the startup's real-time generated worlds utilizing the WASD keys arsenic tho …

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