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Resolution Games announces first Dungeons & Dragons VR game
Venture Beat - 24 Jan 2024 23:52
Resolution Games announced today it's collaborating with Wizards of the Coast on the first D&D virtual reality game.
From Ye's 'Vultures' to 'True Detective,' AI infiltrates pop culture
Venture Beat - 24 Jan 2024 23:28
As the quality of AI image and video generators improves, it may be more and more difficult for even discerning audience members to detect.
Google shows off Lumiere, a space-time diffusion model for realistic AI videos
Venture Beat - 24 Jan 2024 22:57
Lumiere was trained on a dataset of 30 million videos, along with their text captions, and is capable of generating 80 frames at 16 fps. The source of this data, however, remains unclear at this stage.
SingleStore CEO sees little future for purpose-built vector databases
Venture Beat - 24 Jan 2024 20:00
With the Pro Max release, SingleStore is bringing enhanced support for vector search across both structured and unstructured data.
Exclusive: Voltron Data acquires Claypot to unlock real-time AI with modular data systems
Venture Beat - 24 Jan 2024 19:01
With Claypot's technology and team, Voltron Data's modular data systems will get real-time capabilities, enabling users to target more applications.
Immutable teams with Axelar for Web3 interoperability with 50 blockchains
Venture Beat - 24 Jan 2024 18:00
Axelar and Immutable teamed up to create Web3 interoperability through a canonical bridge to Ethereum.
Closed game deals hit record in 2023 but deal activity mixed in Q4 | Drake Star
Venture Beat - 24 Jan 2024 17:00
In 2023, the value of closed game mergers and acquisitions hit a record of $86 billion, according to the Drake Star Global Gaming Report 2023. But deal activity for both acquisitions and fundings was mixed at the end of ...
Ghosts of Tabor VR extraction shooter hits Meta Quest Store on February 8
Venture Beat - 24 Jan 2024 17:00
The virtual reality extraction shooter Ghosts of Tabor hits the Meta Quest Store today after hitting big numbers on Steam.
Afference creates artificial touch sensations with rings on your fingers
Venture Beat - 24 Jan 2024 16:15
I got up early in Las Vegas to check out Afference, and I’m glad I did. In a suite at the Venetian during the CES 2024 tech trade show, founders Jacob Segil and Dustin Tyler showed me how they create artificial touch s...
Activision updates code of conduct to fight toxicity in Modern Warfare III
Venture Beat - 24 Jan 2024 03:25
Activision announced it had updated the language for code of conduct Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III to fight toxicity.
Why LLMs are vulnerable to the 'butterfly effect'
Venture Beat - 24 Jan 2024 01:22
Researchers found that the smallest of perturbations, such as adding a space at the end of a prompt, can cause an LLM to change its answer.
Subscriptions, live service games will slow down in 2024 | Newzoo
Venture Beat - 24 Jan 2024 01:00
Newzoo has released its predictions about 2024 -- its analysts believe this will be a lean year where the games industry recovers.