Nvidia presentation at technology congress CES 2024 brought not only the announcement of three new video cards for the desktop, but also other information about the ambitious project Nvidia ACE (cloud avatar engine). With implementation NPCs powered by artificial intelligence the green team helps important studios such as Ubisoft, NetEase or Tencent.
Most modern AAA games couldn’t exist without non-player characters or NPCs. Their development involves a lot of tedious workespecially if the developers really want to make the characters behave like real living beings.
So that in the future, the biggest or even the smallest games will no longer have characters with permanently dead expressions or abnormal limb movements, or so that their development at least takes much less timeNvidia is working on a dedicated set of AI-powered ACE tools.
It gives developers the ability to create interactive avatars using artificial intelligence models such as Nvidia Audio2Face (A2F) to create expressive facial animations from audio sources, and NVIDIA Riva Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to create custom multilingual applications that recognize speech and provide translation using generative technologies. AI.
We already wrote about a set of goodies for developers at the end of May, but the mention and release of a new press announcement during CES 2024 clearly indicates that we’re really not far away from seeing Nvidia AI NPCs in the first games. In addition, the company boasted that the technology is already actively used by developers from Charisma.AI, Convai, Inworld, miHoYo, NetEase Games, Ourpalm, Tencent, Ubisoft and UneeQ.
Nvidia also released a new trailer in which we return to Jim at his futuristic ramen restaurant. But this time he’s joined by security expert Nova (read: another AI-generated NPC) who he talks to. Also, the characters match the video is able to interact with the player himself and perform actions based on his intonation.
Source :Indian TV
