Lucy in the Wizard Engine
Lucy in the Wizard Engine
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Fable Studio opens its virtual beings Wizard Engine to collaborators

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Fable Studio is opening its virtual beings Wizard Engine to collaborators in fashion and nursing. The San Francisco company built the engine to manage its virtual character Lucy, an 8-year-old animated girl from the Wolves in the Walls virtual reality experience.

Lately, Lucy has made appearances at the Sundance Film Festival and SXSW as a virtual character. She sang songs and talked with the audience, using her AI-based personality, on Twitch. The Wizard Engine enables Fable to manage Lucy’s appearances on different social media platforms.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.