Who doesn’t like asking the same questions about our showcases over and over again? Apparently a lot of people – which is why we created the Jonas Simulator. The Jonas Simulator is a digital twin of the Head of Innovation Hacking that is forever trapped in the worlds longest digital Q&A session. Running in a 24/7 YouTube live stream, interested users can ask their wildest question about all Innovation Hacking things via live chat and the digital Jonas will answer them – if he feels like it. Under the hood, Jonas is powered by a state-of-the-art LLM running privately on TNG’s infrastructure. Via a sophisticated Retrieval Augmented Generation pipeline, Jonas has access to the vast knowledge of the Innovation Hacking Confluence about people, showcases and talks.

Music is constantly changing – from live music to vinyl records and all the way to LoFi HipHop live streams on YouTube. At the peak of the AI hype, the TNG Innovation Hacking Team launched an attempt to find the next logical step: An endless stream of ever-fresh LoFi music, composed and produced exclusively by algorithms and AI.The result AI LoFi radio is a fatiguing 24/7 live stream, fed by custom software that combines different AI models with real-time music production libraries. We use Google’s MusicVAE to generate Hip Hop drums, inspired by humanly produced drum loops.

Using modern AI approaches such as GPT-2, Tacotron and Conformers, we created fully autonomous robot heads that engage in heated social media discussions, completely taking the human out of the loop.The TNG Innovation Hacking Team created a prototype of an end-to-end natural language understanding system, employing techniques such as Speech-to-Text (STT), Conditional Text Generation and Text-To-Speech (TTS).Social media comments have become the predominant medium for public discussion. However, discussions on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit are notorious for their poor debate culture and missing conclusiveness. The obvious solution to this tremendous waste of time is automation of such fruitless discussions using a bot.

Blobby VR brings beach volleyball to Meta Quest where you’re a wobbling blob and headers are your only move. It’s casual enough for a quick laugh, competitive enough to trigger a rematch, and satisfying from the first bounce. Grab a friend, queue a match, and prepare to become dangerously invested in being a very determined blob. Behind all this are months of taming network latency and physics chaos so your perfect header isn’t rocketed into low orbit. We wrangled a moody physics engine, then iterated the ball mechanics until every bop felt snappy, fair, and fun. We built it on top of the Unity game engine and tuned it through relentless playtesting.

ArtVision turns the world around you into a living, breathing painting powered by AI and Extended Reality. Under the hood, a deep neural network called Neural Style Transfer learns the look of famous artworks - or any other image - and paints it over your live view. Unity3D and a stack of GPU horsepower stylize both HTC Vive Pro camera feeds in parallel and in real time, for true stereoscopic 3D. As a result, your sofa gets swirls, your hallway gains impasto, and you step inside an artwork without setting off a single museum alarm.