IBM teams up with Unity to bring Watson into virtual reality environments
Companies have begun seriously experimenting with how virtual reality can be applied in work environments to streamline tasks such as product design. Now, IBM Corp. is looking to capitalize on the trend.
As part of the effort, the technology giant today announced a partnership with Unity Technologies Inc., the maker of a popular game engine touted as the industry’s most widely used platform for building VR applications. The software also lends itself to creating augmented realityservices. IBM has collaborated with Unity to build a development kit for the platform that will let companies draw on its cloud-based Watson artificial intelligence suite in their projects.
The offering brings several major capabilities to the table. The first and arguably most versatile of the bunch is the ability to analyze the objects in a virtual environment using Watson Visual Recognition.
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