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New Startup Artie Wants to Bring AI-driven Avatars to Augmented Reality

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In the video below, you can see a bulbous little avatar named ‘Moke’ responding to voice commands and doing the Moonwalk, Makarena, or YMCA dance. “With Artie’s deep-learning insights and analytics platform, creators can monitor engagement with their avatars in real-time,” the company says in a press statement.

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YouTube Stories Adds A Twist To AR Selfie Filters

VRScout

According to a Google Blog post , they are also relying on technology from TensorFlow Lite for mobile CPU inference or its new mobile GPU functionality where available, to help push AR into their platform. Google purchased YouTube from former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawad Karim back in 2006 for a whopping $1.65

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