A NEW COMBINATION OF VIRTUAL REALITY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The application of virtual reality technology is limited by the development tools themselves. In fact, in any field, human capability is always constrained by the tools they possess. Those tools only make a difference in the quality and scale of work and will limit what you can create and achieve.

Industrial applications of virtual reality used in manufacturing—whether to enhance complex assembly, support maintenance or technical repairs, or ensure quality—are often reported to still be in the experimental stage.

There are still no breakthrough industrial applications in the field of virtual reality, partly because the technology is new, and partly because the development tools are limited.

Artificial intelligence and virtual reality seem to be a good combination. However, developers may find it challenging to find a foundation for integrating AI with virtual reality. When AI is integrated into a virtual reality application, the application can become very useful. AI will enable AR to interact with the real-world environment in a multidimensional way, for example, by combining tagging with real-world objects. This is why the latest news from Unity about its collaboration with IBM is highly anticipated.

Integrating artificial intelligence into virtual reality applications

Unity has announced its partnership with IBM to launch the new IBM Watson Unity SDK, a programming interface that allows developers to add AI cloud computing to their applications, with IBM’s data-centric approach.

The massive amount of data generated at a very fast pace today is 2.5 quintillion bytes per day—and IBM’s research suggests that 90% of the data existing today was created in the past two years. This is how more data can be analyzed accurately or used effectively.

IBM is seeking to improve data visualization methods using virtual reality environments. An IBM project called Immersive Insights addresses this by providing AR developers with the opportunity to integrate computer visualization into Unity applications.

Most people are familiar with voice recognition, as many of us have tried talking to our smartphones to request a certain action. IBM also allows developers to integrate voice recognition with classification and language translation features in the IBM Watson Unity SDK.

Computer vision, a part of AI, is entering virtual reality applications, built by companies like Vuforia, Unity, Microsoft, and Blippar. IBM’s Vision API for computer vision will be available in the IBM Watson Unity SDK.

Source: engineering.com

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