The Role of Generative AI in Shaping the Next Generation of the Metaverse

"This event explores the role of Generative AI in shaping the next generation of the Metaverse, fostering an environment where everyone can be a creator. The program includes presentations from researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry, and will cover:

(1) Recent trends in multimodal content generation research, encompassing the fusion of text, image, and video. The discussion will emphasize maintaining control over the latent space and achieving compositionality in AI-generated content.

(2) The application of neuro-symbolic representations for 3D Generative AI and geometric learning on discrete surfaces in 3D content creation.

(3) Practical implementations of Generative AI within Roblox with live demonstrations of how language models and image generation techniques can streamline the creation of interactive 3D objects and game worlds.

Agenda:

• Mubbasir Kapadia (Roblox and Rutgers): Introduction
• Honglu Zhou (NEC Labs): Illuminating the Metaverse: Unveiling NEC Labs' Journey in Revolutionizing AIGC with Compositionality
• Derek Liu (Roblox Research): Geometric Learning on Discrete Surface Meshes
• Daniel Ritchie (Brown University): Neuro-symbolic Methods for 3D Generative AI
• Kartik Ayyar (Roblox): Generative AI in Action at Roblox