In an interview, Unity's CEO, John Riccitiello, discusses the future of Unity and how it will shape the game industry. He predicts that AI will have a profound impact on the industry, enabling creators to make things they never imagined possible and replacing certain aspects of content creation. Riccitiello also discusses the potential for NPCs to have ambitions and how Unity will continue to be a driving force in VR. Additionally, he highlights Unity's value for developers who want to build games on a variety of platforms.
00:00:00 In this section, John Riccitiello, Unity's CEO, discusses the company's upcoming CTO change, the role of Unity in the game industry, and his admiration for Joachim Fischer.
00:05:00 In this section, the speaker interviews John Riccitiello, the technology team leader at Unity, about the company's plans for the future. He discusses how the company hopes to be better for the artists as well as the developers and how they work to make Unity easier to use and address more use cases.
00:10:00 In this section, John Riccitiello discusses how AI is going to have a profound impact on the gaming industry and how developers will find themselves more productive due to the use of AI.
00:15:00 In this section, John Riccitiello discusses the future of Unity, AI, and how it will impact the development process. He talks about how AI will enable creators to make things they never imagined possible, and how games that are in the mind of the player will be "better" and " cooler." He also predicts that the industry will be vastly larger in the near future due to AI tools embedded within Unity.
00:20:00 In this section, John Riccitiello, the creator of Unity, discusses the importance of AI in content creation and its potential to replace game developers and game designers. He predicts that AI will become increasingly important as it becomes more commonplace and that it will eventually become worth the time and effort to use it.
00:25:00 In this section, the speaker discusses the potential that AI will play a role in the future of Unity, and how this will be beneficial for developers. They also provide an example of how AI can be used to create a first draft of creativity.
00:30:00 In this section, John Riccitiello, the creator of Unity, discusses how he's skeptical about the potential for a metaverse in the next decade, and how Unity has been able to surprise him with its high utility and its ability to achieve the metaphor of being able to buy a loaf of bread.
00:35:00 In this section, John Riccitiello discusses the future of Unity, where NPCs will be able to have Ambitions and NPCs will be able to do anything in-game. He also predicts that there will be a huge amount of linear content replaced by games with intelligent NPCs.
00:40:00 In this section, John Riccitiello, the CTO of Unity, talks about how the game industry is changing and the need for NPCs that are smarter than humans.
00:45:00 In this section, John Riccitiello discusses the future of Unity and how it will shape the future of VR. He also discusses the importance of Unity's role in VR and how it will continue to be a driving force in the game industry.
00:50:00 In this section, John Riccitiello talks about how Unity is a great development engine compared to other game engines. He also talks about how Unity is often compared to Unreal and north of 70 mobile games are built in Unity. Finally, John Riccitiello talks about how Unity has grown from not such an important position in console gaming and PC gaming to being the leading third-party engine on these platforms.
00:55:00 In this section, John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, discusses how Unity differs from other video game engines, how Unity is used to build photorealistic games, and how Unity is valuable for developers who want to build games on a variety of platforms.