NVIDIA ACE for Games Sparks Life into NPCs with Generative AI in Unreal Engine 5 Video

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NVIDIA has announced NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) for Games, a custom AI model foundry service that aims to transform games by bringing intelligence to non-playable characters (NPCs) through AI-powered natural language interactions. The service basically enables gaming experiences in which the player can have intelligent, unscripted, and dynamic conversations with NPCs with persistent personalities that evolve over time, including accurate facial animations and expressions, although a 4K demo video that was released to showcase the platform suggests that the resulting dialog could sound a bit stiff and unnatural. The video, which comes in a ridiculously wide aspect ratio and stars Jin, a ramen shop worker, was created by the NVIDIA Lightspeed Studios art team and rendered entirely in Unreal Engine 5, using NVIDIA RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) for ray traced lighting and shadows, with DLSS for the highest possible frame rates and image quality.

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