Bernice is not real. She's a MetaHuman.
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Nvidia releases plugins to improve digital human realism on Unreal Engine 5

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nvidia released its latest tech for creating AI-powered characters who look and behave like real humans.

At Unreal Fest Seattle 2024, Nvidia released its new Unreal Engine 5 on-device plugins for Nvidia Ace, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered MetaHuman characters on Windows PCs. Ace is a suite of digital human technologies that provide speech, intelligence and animation powered by generative AI.

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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.