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🔥Character AI in VR Space🔥 We present #SOLAMI, a social vision-language-action (VLA) model that enables 3D autonomous characters with speech and body language interaction - Project: - Paper Hugging Face : . Thanks AK !

Ziwei Liu

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Abhinav Girdhar1 year ago

@huggingface @_akhaliq Incredible! #SOLAMI is paving the way for immersive VR interactions by bringing 3D characters to life with speech and body language. The future of AI-driven virtual experiences is here!

⚡️Dylan White1 year ago

@huggingface @_akhaliq This is really cool! 😎

Xin Eric Wang1 year ago

@huggingface @_akhaliq Very cool!

Ziwei Liu1 year ago

@huggingface @_akhaliq Thanks a lot, Eric!

Oliver Czatorski1 year ago

@huggingface @_akhaliq Great work Ziwei! I am impressed

justboulatbek1 year ago

@huggingface @_akhaliq are these things available as a service? i.e. not to try deploy myself?

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