{"id":9791,"date":"2019-01-28T09:51:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T09:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=9791"},"modified":"2019-01-25T14:52:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T14:52:56","slug":"ai-is-the-next-art-form-says-vr-pioneer-edward-saatchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2019\/01\/28\/ai-is-the-next-art-form-says-vr-pioneer-edward-saatchi\/","title":{"rendered":"“AI is the next art form,” says VR pioneer Edward Saatchi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Edward Saatchi is the rare VR studio head who doesn’t have much faith in the future of virtual reality movies. That’s what we learned from\u00a0our conversation with him last year<\/a>\u00a0— now, he’s ready to commit to that idea. At Sundance today, Saatchi announced that he’s shifting his company Fable away from virtual reality experiences. (It’s also dropping the “Studios” part of its name.) Instead, they’re going to focus primarily on artificial intelligence and “virtual beings,” or characters you can interact with naturally across any sort of medium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lucy, the lead character from Fable’s\u00a0Wolves in the Walls<\/em>, is the first virtual being from the studio. She’s starring in a a new Sundance experience,\u00a0Whispers in the Night<\/em>,<\/em>\u00a0where you’ll be able to chat with her using natural language processing. Based on the trailer above, it’s almost as if you’re having a hushed conversation with an inquisitive child. And just as Saatchi said last year, she’ll be able to track your movements and remember what you’ve said when she sees you again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Edward Saatchi is the rare VR studio head who doesn’t have much faith in the future of virtual reality movies. That’s what we learned from\u00a0our conversation with him last year\u00a0— now, he’s ready to commit to that idea. At Sundance today, Saatchi announced that he’s shifting his company Fable away from virtual reality experiences. (It’s… Read more » about “AI is the next art form,” says VR pioneer Edward Saatchi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":9792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9793,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9791\/revisions\/9793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}