You can now try interactive AI worlds backed by Pixar’s cofounder
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Summary
AI startup Odyssey, backed by Pixar cofounder Edwin Catmull, has released a research preview of its “interactive video” product, which it describes as “video you can watch and interact with, imagined entirely by AI in real time”.
Users can currently explore a handful of environments, such as a woodland area or a shopping mall, in a manner similar to a first-person video game.
However, the objects in these simulations sometimes do not collide with correctly, and the textures are frequently blurry and noisy.
Catmull stated that Odyssey is on the “leading edge” of this type of work, and that the company participates in a broader community, meaning that information on how to improve the product is continually improving.
He also suggested that special neural network filters could be used to reduce the noise in the images.