Insight AMD Computing in Gaming
line, using facial recognition and ML, an AI machine could determine the player’s mood and then offer the most appealing game options.
ML already uses natural language processing, speech recognition, face recognition and reinforcement learning to automate homes and other environments in more human ways. With your smartphone today, you can tell your home automation system to turn off the lights in your home office or raise the temperature on your thermostat. Pretty soon, your smartphone will recognize the command as coming from your voice, understanding the context that it is your office and not your spouse’s that you are referring to. At the airport, facial recognition systems will expedite security and boarding process to allow passengers to get to their gates faster and travel more securely.
While ML aims to learn from, mimic and supplement human behavior, virtual reality provides users with an entirely difference experience of the world: VR can so fully immerse viewers in a computer-generated environment that they believe they are actually inside it. VR applications typically require specialized head- mounted display devices, available from HTC, Oculus, Sony and others. Te potential for VR in gaming is enormous, which has led AMD to currently collaborate with several companies that are focused on video game development for casino use. Tese games have the potential for use in casino lounge environments, providing a more intimate alternative to the slot-machine floor.
the information from the data sets to the point that it can predict customer behavior and provide personalized recommendations as a result. Te power of the GPUs – each consisting of dozens of parallel processors – allows ML to model neural networks, essentially emulating human brain function.
ML applications can be “trained” through exposure to these large data sets to recognize patterns and subsequently predict outcomes. ML is the element that enables many day-to-day applications such as AI assistants such as Microsoft’s Cortana or Amazon’s Echo.
In casinos, this intelligent technology is already at work in “Player Cards.” By tracking where and when customers play in addition to other behavior at the casino, such as purchasing beverages and restaurant preferences, operators can predict future visits and offer incentives aligned with the personal interests of every player. In the future, gaming machines could employ machine vision to recognize players so they may not even need their cards. And further down the
Augmented reality continues to evolve, with a number of applications already productized in various industries. For example, smart AR glasses are being used in manufacturing, warehousing and field service environments to overlay computer-generated video, graphic or text information onto physical objects. An oft-cited use for these glasses is the step-by-step instructions that are shown in the field of view hovering over a machine part, visually guiding the worker through a repair job. In the casino world, International Game Technology (IGT) has a new casino gaming cabinet, the Crystal Curve Ultra, with the ability to infuse a player’s hands with heat when a flame appears on a 3D screen.
Te recent increase in these next-generation technologies – ML, VR and AR – is attributed to significant advancements in computing power. For example, in the past processors were not powerful enough to avoid perceptible time lag (also known as latency), the period between the physical movement of a user’s head and the moment when the visual display is updated to reflect that movement in a VR application. If the latency is too long, a viewer can experience nausea. Delays of less than 20 milliseconds (ms) are generally imperceptible, though 10 ms is closer to ideal. Such short time lags require extremely fast computer processors, and it is only recently that CPUs and GPUs have achieved the performance to quickly refresh the view in response to users’ movement.
VR is a perfect technology for gaming, though it is equally suited to other forms of visual entertainment and other fields. Already, several VR movie theaters have opened. It’s also an excellent tool for education.
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The challenge for casino gaming is clear. These
immersive technologies command customers’
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