AI and XR – a powerful cocktail
The combination of AI and XR unlocks interesting possibilities for end-users as well as developers. In Virsabi, we are researching all options to create more valuable solutions for our customers.
Generative AI
Development
XR Technology
While it feels like the world can only comprehend one technological hype at a time, the attention on generative AI does not mean that the world of XR has come to a halt. On the contrary, we in the field of developing business cases, use cases, and content for virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality have been quick to embrace the possibilities that generative AI offers within our field.
Boiled down, the combination of AI and XR offers advantages in two fields: the user experience, and the developer process.
Generative AI gives better XR user experience
The task of XR technologies is basically to provide you a visual experience. Whether you are immersed in VR or displaying data on top of the real world using AR or MR, the basic function of XR is to serve as a visual display.
Imagine that instead of seeing your AI generated visuals in 2D on a monitor, you can instantly experience them in 3D, in their actual size, and in different environments. It makes a huge different in industrial design, when you can use generative AI to convert your CAD drawing into a life-size 3D object placed in the factory or fitted in among adjacent components, and where you can actually walk around it and see how it fits.
Or a simple example for more everyday use that is easy to imagine: Point your phone to the corner and say: Siri, place a couch in this corner. Siri, make it purple.
And there you have it in AR and can instantly see if the purple couch will fit your home or not.
Natural language processing is the technology that makes the above possible. And with this technology, generative AI in frontend XR can also be used for more advanced features like conversations with animated characters or avatars using Large Language Models, making conversations feel real. A feature that would add to soft skills training in the business and educational segments and to more engaging gameplay in VR and MR games.
AI for elevating user experience in XR will follow the development of generative AI for other platforms. Only – expect it to be more impressive.
Artificial Intelligence inside
We have a room fool of geeks who have been monitoring the AI scene, and we have a dedicated resource to do research on how to take advantage of the new technologies.
Generative AI for development of XR are a mixture of many applications from various companies and of various value.
For now, none of us will become unemployed. But just like Chat-GPT can help you make a first draft for your text, we have tools that can make a first draft of a 3D object or an animated character, tools to find flaws in code (as if we need it …), and tools to give voices to characters and avatars – some of which we may keep, and others which we may use as guidance for the voice actors.
The sum is that we are saving time, especially in the initial phases, and AI has given us an opportunity to create visual concepts that we can even incorporate in 3D environments which makes it easier for our customers to understand the possibilities of creating business value from putting their branded experience into an XR environment.
Ethical AI in XR
Does our love for technology mean that we just embrace every new AI tool out there? Absolutely not.
As we don’t develop AI solutions ourselves, we keep a watchful eye on who is behind the different tools, and what kind of data is collected.
We firmly believe that data and insights belong to their creator, and that AI systems must be transparent and explainable. Keeping high ethical standards in the usage of AI in XR is of the uttermost importance to us.