In its latest earnings call, Sony included a corporate strategy for the future of the brand, and as you might be able to expect from any figurehead talking to investors, there's a lot of talk about AI.
As noted by GamesIndustry.biz, Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki believes "AI will make it easier to take on more innovative and ambitious projects."
In games, it talks extensively about an in-house tool called 'Mockingbird' that animates 3D facial models based on performance captures and confirms that this tool was already used in Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered.
Totoki says, "Importantly, we are not replacing human performers, but rather optimising how we process the data from these live captures."
Totoki also explains that an AI model is being used to animate hair, something that is...
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