A few months ago, we reported on a new AI technology from NVIDIA called NVIDIA ACE, or Avatar Cloud Engine that allows developers to create "digital humans" that allow humans to interact and speak with a natural artificial intelligence model.
Recently, NVIDIA ACE technology seems to be shown more widely, where NVIDIA has already started to show a demo of this conversation technology with AI through several games, the latest of which is Mecha BREAK, a computer game being developed by Amazing Seasun Games
From the walkthrough video shown, you can now interact with NPC characters in the game to ask them about things like the next mission, ask for suggestions on the best way to do your mission.
NVIDIA ACE uses SLM (Small Language Model) NVIDIA Nemotron-4 4B which utilizes NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4000 series graphics card to generate AI answers in this computer game, combining their other AI technologies such as NVIDIA Riva and NVIDIA Ominiverse Audio2Face.
Riva understands player conversations in real time so NeMo understands the context of the conversation. Audio2Face will match the voice audio produced by NeMo with the animation of the NPC character's face.
Mecha BREAK is currently in open beta, but integration with NVIDIA ACE AI technology will only happen when the game officially launches. As of now, Amazing Season Games has not yet confirmed the official release date of this game, but just like their current beta test, it is expected to be released as a free-to-play computer game.