My favorite Dreamcast-era gaming trend is making a surprising comeback

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Virtual pets were all the rage in the 1990s, but while the trend took a back seat for a few decades, AI and VR are giving it new life and evolving it in wonderful ways.

While virtual pets almost always "evolve" to the next level instead of growing like normal real-life pets, the way we interact with virtual pets hasn't evolved since the 1990s.

Using LLM-based AI models to power NPC interactions isn't something extraordinarily new—Skyrim players have been using ChatGPT to make smarter NPCs for over a year now—but AstroBeam aims to take this concept and use it to make multiplayer games feel fuller.

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Author / Journalist: Nicholas Sutrich

Category: Technology

Markets: United States

Topics: Virtual Reality Gaming

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Published On: 2024-08-29 @ 16:07:44 (2 days ago)

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Article Length: 1855 words

Reading Time: 11 minutes read

Sentences: 76 lines

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