Short YouTube segment (speaker Matt Wolfe) describing Odyssey ML’s interactive video platform, Odyssey World, which generates every scene and frame in real time and lets users explore procedurally generated worlds for short sessions. The speaker notes visual limitations (low-res, buggy) but emphasizes the novelty and exploratory potential.
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The company, Odyssey ML released an interactive video platform which you can actually play with right now. And it's really interesting. If you go to experience Odyssey World, you can actually jump into this platform, and every single scene you're seeing is generated. So I'm using the WASD buttons, and I can move around and look around, and every single frame is generated in real time. So every step forward I move, that's a new generated frame. And you can play around with this and explore it for up to about two and a half minutes. But what's really interesting is see this World Channel slider at the bottom? If I slide this around, it actually generates new worlds for me to jump into. Now they even claim themselves. It's still kind of janky and buggy, and obviously the graphics aren't great at all. Very, very low resolution, kind of hard to make out, but still really trippy. I don't know what we're gonna do with this yet, but it's really interesting that we can do it.