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Unity News Today. All about AI. Unity Muse and Unity Sentis

Jun 27, 2023
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Unity email news about upcoming Unity AI Tools. Unity Muse and Unity Sentis. ► https://Unity.com/AI - Also includes link for Beta Test My discord link ► https://discord.gg/DgUdNDT7KU ► Download Unity at https://unity.com Chapters: 00:00 Unity News of the Day! 12:22 The email from Unity 32

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A quick news roundup on Unity officially bringing AI into the Unity environment, announced through an email to developers and a blog post. Two products were introduced: Unity Muse and Unity Sentis. Here's what was in the announcement and what's worth doing about it.

What was announced

Unity announced that it is launching AI inside the Unity environment, with Unity Muse and Unity Sentis as the two named products. The announcement went out by email to developers and is backed by a blog post introducing both products.

The landing page for all of this is unity.com/ai, which introduces what the two products are and covers the intended impact of AI on the workflow. There are also forums set up specifically to discuss these products, which is usually where the practical detail shows up first.

This isn't a sudden pivot

It's easy to read an announcement like this as a reaction to the current AI wave, but Unity has been working on implementing AI for quite a few years. The launch is the visible part of a longer effort.

That context is useful when you're deciding how much attention to give it. Features that arrive after years of internal work tend to be more deeply wired into the engine than features bolted on in a hurry.

The closed beta

At announcement, the blog post covered a closed beta rather than a general release. That means access is gated, and signing up is the action item if you want to be in early.

The promotional clip attached to the announcement showed off a range of uses, with creating animations standing out as the one worth raising an eyebrow at. Treat demo footage as a statement of intent rather than a benchmark, but it does tell you where the team is aiming.

What to do with this

If you're an indie dev or a solo developer, the practical move is to go read the blog post at unity.com/ai, check the forums for what other developers are reporting, and sign up for the beta if the feature set overlaps with anything you're currently doing by hand.

The lower-risk approach is to sign up, try it on a side project rather than your main build, and form your own opinion from your own results. Betas change, and features get renamed or cut. Knowing what a tool actually does in your pipeline is worth more than reading about what it might do.

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