What Dillon Seo did next: Oculus’ co-founder on combining VR with AI
Dillon Seo, one of the co-founders of virtual reality pioneer Oculus, has launched a new business that blends artificial intelligence with the immersive aspect of virtual reality.
Voler Creative has an end goal of creating ‘a virtual friend understands and empathises with you’. Seo, who left Oculus to start the project in March 2015, hopes it will be able to resolve the problem of human loneliness, and consequenly elevate consumers’ self esteem.
The boyfriend or girlfriend avatar will be designed exclusively for the user and will build a relationship with them through the help of countenance expression, machine learning and big data.
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Source: The Drum
