Facebook researchers are turning videos into videogames
Facebook, a company with a fabulous track record in using artificial intelligence to make the world a better place, have figured out how to turn telly people into videogame people. The researchers’ Vid2game game project lets them create a controllable avatar from live-action footage, as demonstrated below with a tennis player.
The resulting animations aren’t super convincing, at least at this stage. That doesn’t stop Facebook boasting that their work “paves the way for new types of realistic and personalized games, which can be casually created from everyday videos.”