Unity Technologies Will Launch Artificial Intelligence Challenge Designed to Push Limits of Intelligent Systems

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SAN FRANCISCO--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Unity Technologies ( https://unity3d.com) , creator of the world’s most widely used real-time 3D development platform, today announced the upcoming launch of the Obstacle Tower Challenge : a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI) challenge designed to test the capabilities of intelligent agents and accelerate the research and development of AI. Participants will have the opportunity to win prizes valued at over $100,000, in the form of cash, travel vouchers, and Google Cloud Platform credits. In this way, we’re testing the generalization ability of agents, a key capability that has not often been analyzed by benchmarks in the past,” said Danny Lange, Vice President of AI and Machine Learning, Unity Technologies. The company’s 1,000 person development team keeps Unity at the bleeding-edge of technology by working alongside partners such as Google, Facebook, Magic Leap, Oculus and Microsoft to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Unity’s renowned flexibility gives developers the power to target and optimize their creations for 25+ platforms including Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Gameroom (Facebook), SteamVR (PC & Mac), Oculus, PSVR, Gear VR, HoloLens, ARKit (Apple), ARCore (Google) and more.

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