English
Related papers

Related papers: From Virtual Games to Real-World Play

200 papers

Video world models have shown immense promise for interactive simulation and entertainment, but current systems still struggle with two important aspects of interactivity: user control over the environment for reproducible, editable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ryan Po , David Junhao Zhang , Amir Hertz , Gordon Wetzstein , Neal Wadhwa , Nataniel Ruiz

Supporting real-time interactions between human controllers and remote devices remains a challenging goal in the Metaverse due to the stringent requirements on computing workload, communication throughput, and round-trip latency. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Kan Chen , Zhen Meng , Xiangmin Xu , Changyang She , Philip G. Zhao

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has advanced from text-to-image generation to text-to-video and multimodal video synthesis. However, generating playable games presents significant challenges due to the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Mingyu Yang , Junyou Li , Zhongbin Fang , Sheng Chen , Yangbin Yu , Qiang Fu , Wei Yang , Deheng Ye

Researchers have used machine learning approaches to identify motion sickness in VR experience. These approaches demand an accurately-labeled, real-world, and diverse dataset for high accuracy and generalizability. As a starting point to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Elliott Wen , Chitralekha Gupta , Prasanth Sasikumar , Mark Billinghurst , James Wilmott , Emily Skow , Arindam Dey , Suranga Nanayakkara

We introduce GameGen-X, the first diffusion transformer model specifically designed for both generating and interactively controlling open-world game videos. This model facilitates high-quality, open-domain generation by simulating an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Haoxuan Che , Xuanhua He , Quande Liu , Cheng Jin , Hao Chen

Current motion-conditioned video generation methods suffer from prohibitive latency (minutes per video) and non-causal processing that prevents real-time interaction. We present MotionStream, enabling sub-second latency with up to 29 FPS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Joonghyuk Shin , Zhengqi Li , Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu , Jaesik Park , Eli Shechtman , Xun Huang

We present Playable Environments - a new representation for interactive video generation and manipulation in space and time. With a single image at inference time, our novel framework allows the user to move objects in 3D while generating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Willi Menapace , Stéphane Lathuilière , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Christian Theobalt , Sergey Tulyakov , Vladislav Golyanik , Elisa Ricci

Generative videos have the potential to revolutionize game development by autonomously creating new content. In this paper, we present GameFactory, a framework for action-controlled scene-generalizable game video generation. We first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Jiwen Yu , Yiran Qin , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Xihui Liu

We address the longstanding challenge of producing flexible, realistic humanoid character controllers that can perform diverse whole-body tasks involving object interactions. This challenge is central to a variety of fields, from graphics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Josh Merel , Saran Tunyasuvunakool , Arun Ahuja , Yuval Tassa , Leonard Hasenclever , Vu Pham , Tom Erez , Greg Wayne , Nicolas Heess

This paper introduces the unsupervised learning problem of playable video generation (PVG). In PVG, we aim at allowing a user to control the generated video by selecting a discrete action at every time step as when playing a video game. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Willi Menapace , Stéphane Lathuilière , Sergey Tulyakov , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Elisa Ricci

Computer graphics can not only generate synthetic images and ground truth but it also offers the possibility of constructing virtual worlds in which: (i) an agent can perceive, navigate, and take actions guided by AI algorithms, (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Weichao Qiu , Alan Yuille

WonderPlay is a novel framework integrating physics simulation with video generation for generating action-conditioned dynamic 3D scenes from a single image. While prior works are restricted to rigid body or simple elastic dynamics,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zizhang Li , Hong-Xing Yu , Wei Liu , Yin Yang , Charles Herrmann , Gordon Wetzstein , Jiajun Wu

Access to a fast and easily copied forward model of a game is essential for model-based reinforcement learning and for algorithms such as Monte Carlo tree search, and is also beneficial as a source of unlimited experience data for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Chris Bamford , Simon Lucas

The human hand is the main medium through which we interact with our surroundings, making its digitization an important problem. While there are several works modeling the geometry of hands, little attention has been paid to capturing…

World models, especially in autonomous driving, are trending and drawing extensive attention due to their capacity for comprehending driving environments. The established world model holds immense potential for the generation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Xinze Chen , Jiagang Zhu , Jiwen Lu

Scaling generative inverse and forward rendering to real-world scenarios is bottlenecked by the limited realism and temporal coherence of existing synthetic datasets. To bridge this persistent domain gap, we introduce a large-scale, dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zheng-Hui Huang , Zhixiang Wang , Jiaming Tan , Ruihan Yu , Yidan Zhang , Bo Zheng , Yu-Lun Liu , Yung-Yu Chuang , Kaipeng Zhang

How can we reliably simulate future driving scenarios under a wide range of ego driving behaviors? Recent driving world models, developed exclusively on real-world driving data composed mainly of safe expert trajectories, struggle to follow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jiazhi Yang , Kashyap Chitta , Shenyuan Gao , Long Chen , Yuqian Shao , Xiaosong Jia , Hongyang Li , Andreas Geiger , Xiangyu Yue , Li Chen

State-of-the-art video generation models produce remarkable photorealism, but they lack the precise control required to align generated content with specific scene requirements. Furthermore, without an underlying explicit geometry, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Dana Cohen-Bar , Ido Sobol , Raphael Bensadoun , Shelly Sheynin , Oran Gafni , Or Patashnik , Daniel Cohen-Or , Amit Zohar

Despite the recent progress in text-to-video generation, existing studies usually overlook the issue that only spatial contents but not temporal motions in synthesized videos are under the control of text. Towards such a challenge, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Xi Chen , Zhiheng Liu , Mengting Chen , Yutong Feng , Yu Liu , Yujun Shen , Hengshuang Zhao

Photogrammetry is transforming digital content creation by enabling the rapid conversion of real-world objects into highly detailed 3D models. This paper evaluates the role of RealityCapture, a GPU-accelerated photogrammetry tool, in game…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman , Andrei Koshelev , Stefan Wagner