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The past few weeks has seen a wave of virtual world generation AI models appear. It is a natural next step from images and videos. Google Genie 3 is released to some early testers lots of videos of it working doing the rounds. Hunyuan World 1.0 <\/a>is an open source world generator, I am still trying to get a development environment to work properly to try it, as with all dev tech if you don’t keep the environments updated then things just get out of hand and don’t work. Wheels within wheels of tools and dependencies and it always has to be just the right version, not too old and certainly not new! It was whilst battling my own machine and virtual machines within it that Mirage 2 appeared on the web Mirage: AI UGC game engine<\/a> so I gave that a go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This allows you to provide a picture then create or AI gen a description of the world and the character. Then gives you a few seconds of walking around in that world as it generates it on the fly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thing I used was one of the preset prompts and images of a cyberpunk world. Rather then walk forward I turned around and heading into the unknown areas behind. It worked, obviously early days for this but when I think back a few years for midjourney’s starting images, as I started in 2022 with them<\/a>, it feels the same vibe and opening up of potential new forms of experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am very much looking forward to experimenting some more as these tools improve just as all the others have. Maybe Reconfigure’s<\/a> movie might be a bit more interactive, or some hybrid media yet to be created \ud83d\ude42 Hello metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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