#390: AI & VR: Using IBM's Watson for Game Design, Interactive Narratives, & Conversational Interfaces

Machine Learning is going to revolutionize so many different aspects of our lives, and it's starting to enter into game development with IBM's Watson. Developers can integrate cloud-based AI services into their game to dynamically change the game design progression curve based upon a user's behavior and performance. If the player is zipping through a series of easy puzzles with no problems, then Watson could detect that and more quickly progress the player to advanced levels in order to keep the game challenging and interesting for them. I was able to get a sampling of how a number of different innovative game designers have started to integrate machine learning resources last week at an Intel Buzz Workshop presentation by IBM's Interactive Media CTO George Dolbier. He showed off some code sample of how to integrate Watson with Unity with IBM's Watson Developer Cloud API and gave a number of different use cases for how to integrate machine learning into VR experiences.