Remember when video filters just meant dog ears on Snapchat? That\u2019s ancient history now.<\/p>\n
Dean Leitersdorf was on Dan Shipper\u2019s Every podcast<\/a> and mid-sentence transformed into a wizard shooting candlelight from his hands, then turned a tissue box into a portal gun that actually fires when you pull the trigger.<\/p>\n This is\u00a0Mirage<\/a>, the first real-time video-to-video AI model from\u00a0Decart. It transforms any video stream \u2014 your webcam, a game, whatever \u2014 with just 40 milliseconds of delay<\/a>. The next version?\u00a016 milliseconds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Unlike other AI video tools that generate entire clips at once, Mirage works\u00a0frame-by-frame like an LLM predicting<\/a> the next word; Dean calls it \u201cnext frame prediction.\u201d Dean\u2019s team spent six months solving the \u201cerror accumulation problem\u201d \u2014where models gradually degrade into static colors \u2014 by writing assembly code for GPUs<\/a>.<\/p>\n A\u00a0new Minecraft mod<\/a>\u00a0that transforms the entire game on command.<\/p>\n Casually\u00a0turning GTA V into a winter wonderland in real-time<\/a>.<\/p>\n Launching its own consumer app (Delulu<\/a>) for real-time selfie transformations.<\/p>\n You can try it out yourself right now by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n As we\u2019ve written before, many players are focused on\u00a0World Models at the moment<\/a>. For example, Tencent dropped HunyuanWorld-Voyager<\/a>, an open-source world model (GitHub<\/a>) that generates camera-controlled 3D environments (paper<\/a>). It\u2019s currently\u00a0#1 on Stanford\u2019s WorldScore leaderboard<\/a> and exports directly to 3D formats \u2014 no extra tools needed.<\/p>\n While Tencent and Google\u2019s recently demonstrated Genie 3 focus on 3D reconstruction for VR and simulations, Decart is betting on instant transformation of existing content. However, Dean believes we need both approaches<\/a>: deterministic code for the \u201cbones\u201d (like game physics, rules, etc.) and AI for the creative \u201cmuscles\u201d (textures, visuals). As Dan points out in the episode<\/a>, you could make a 3D game with simple logic and use Mirage as the \u201cskin\u201d to make it look like a legit AAA game (demos<\/a>).<\/p>\n Dean thinks AI will create\u00a0entirely new entertainment categories<\/a>\u00a0beyond chatbots. His take? Every 12-year-old knows ChatGPT does their homework, but they have no idea what AI to use when they\u2019re\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0doing homework.<\/p>\n Gaming is just the appetizer. Real-time transformation tech could reshape video calls, content creation, and how we perceive digital reality. In a way, we could be watching the birth of a new medium: one where the line between real and generated dissolves every 40 milliseconds. TBH, we wouldn\u2019t be shocked if Meta tries to buy Decart to make \u201cthe metaverse\u201d an actual thing.<\/p>\n Editor\u2019s note: This content originally ran in our sister publication, The Neuron<\/a>. To read more from The Neuron, sign up for its newsletter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Your Next Zoom Call Could Be From a Wizard\u2019s Tower<\/a> appeared first on eWEEK<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Remember when video filters just meant dog ears on Snapchat? That\u2019s ancient history now. Dean Leitersdorf was on Dan Shipper\u2019s Every podcast and mid-sentence transformed into a wizard shooting candlelight from his hands, then turned a tissue box into a portal gun that actually fires when you pull the trigger. This is\u00a0Mirage, the first real-time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Here\u2019s the wild part<\/h2>\n
Examples of what\u2019s already happening with Mirage<\/h2>\n
The bet on instant transformation of existing content<\/h2>\n
The bigger picture<\/h2>\n