Convai Shows Off Unity AI NPC Demo, Announces New Features and Partnerships with Second Life and Stormgate

Convai, the conversational AI NPC platform for games previously featured in NVIDIA's Kairos demo showcased at CES 2024, just shared a slew of announcements for GDC 2024.

At San Francisco's convention, Convai is showing off its new Project Neural Nexus demo, once again featuring a cyberpunk theme. The project was led by Creative Director Sakura Rabbit and made in collaboration with Unity, leveraging Behavior, a prerelease feature from Unity Muse (Unity's AI-powered platform for accelerating real-time 3D and game development), to enhance its perception and action system for AI characters. You can check out the demo below.

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Convai also announced a series of new features for its AI NPC platform:

• Convai Connect: This new feature will mitigate the risks of potential runaway costs associated with real-time AI-based character interactions in games, allowing end users to seamlessly use their Convai account to play the developer's game. This approach eliminates the need for developers to pay upfront licensing fees or worry about unpredictable costs. In addition, Convai incentivizes developers by sharing revenue when users upgrade to a paid subscription through their game.
• Narrative Design: This feature gives game developers and narrative designers more control over their AI characters. It provides characters with agency and purpose, allowing them to drive conversations and actions towards a pre-determined set of outcomes while maintaining an open-ended generative nature and encouraging emergent actions and behaviors.
• Long-term character memory: Enables game characters to remember end users, fostering deeper, more personalized relationships. Characters can now have memories of players based on previous conversations and experiences, remember player preferences and choices, and adapt to player style for a truly unique experience.
• Multilingual Support: