AI companies have recently been experimenting with interactive, AI-generated worlds. There’s an AI-generated version of Quake. An AI-generated Minecraft. Google DeepMind is also building a team to develop models that « simulate the world. » Now, an AI startup backed by Pixar cofounder Edwin Catmull is trying to put its own spin on the idea – something it calls « interactive video, » which it’s letting people experience as part of a research preview that’s available today.
The startup, called Odyssey, describes interactive video on its website as « video you can both watch and interact with, imagined entirely by AI in real-time. » The idea is that you can engage with the video in some way – think a first-person video game but in environments that actually look like the real world instead of one made of polygons. Odyssey hypes it up to be an « early version of the Holodeck, » though it acknowledges that « the experience today feels like exploring a glitchy dream – raw, unstable, but undeniably new. »
In motion, Odyssey’s interactive videos feel like walking through a blurry version of Google Street View. You can walk around the startup’s real-time generated worlds using the WASD keys as tho …
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You can now try interactive AI worlds backed by Pixar’s cofounder