Will Unity Kickstart the AI Gaming Revolution? 🕹️

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✍️ News: Unity’s AI Gaming Revolution
🛠️ Tools: Instaverse by Ilumine AI, Leonardo AI
🎨 Creator Corner: MoMA AI Art, ChatGPT’s Financial Analysis, DragGAN

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One top headline in the AI space to know:

🕹️  Unity Brings the Power of AI into Game Development

Ever wanted to create your own video game?

With the latest AI announcements coming out of Unity, developing assets and bringing concepts to life is about to be as simple as writing a prompt or sketching an idea.

The leading game development platform debuted two new product launches on Tuesday primed to revolutionize the creative process: Unity Muse and Unity Sentis.

Muse is an AI platform that promises to speed up real-time 3D applications, such as video games and digital avatars (like we discussed in yesterday’s newsletter).

A closed beta of Muse Chat has just been launched, which offers AI-powered search across Unity's documentation, training, and support resources. The platform allows users to create almost anything in Unity using simple text prompts or sketches.

Watch the impressive launch trailer below to get a better idea of the power that is about to be in the hands of creators:

On the other hand, Sentis brings the power of AI directly into gameplay — enabling the creation of AI-enhanced assets on any device where Unity runs.

Imagine video game NPCs (non-player characters) that harness the power of AI — opening up opportunities for advanced dialogue, memory, and awareness in ways that might’ve seemed impossible before.

Here’s an example below of a character that can dynamically respond to even the most random of questions:

The question is — will lowing the barriers to game development lead to better creations, or a flood of backlash and bad games?

Likely both:

While there may be an influx of new low-quality games, the tech will also enable the top creators to make even more impressive titles — at a speed and level that may completely shake up the industry.

The AI revolution is about to come to gaming — and the capabilities it will unlock will likely usher in a new era of gameplay like we’ve never seen before.

Two AI-powered platforms to add to your toolbox:

Given the main topic, two more game-related tools feel appropriate:

• Instaverse by Ilumine AI — Create, visualize and share your own beautiful virtual worlds using AI (link)

• Leonardo AI — A generative AI content production suite for game building (link)

Go from a Midjourney image to a 3D world:

Three of our favorite tweets, threads, AI generations and more:

This real-time AI art at the MoMA is unbelievable:

The power of GPT4 on full display with this financial breakdown of an entire Meta financial report:

Remember the wild Drag your GAN teasers from a few weeks ago? It’s now available to try!

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