Oasis is an interactive AI experience that turns Minecraft into a nightmarish hallucination [Video]

Editor’s take: In Ernest Cline’s 2015 novel Ready Player One, “Oasis” was a virtual interactive dystopia with life-like graphics and too many Delorean replicas fighting to uncover the game’s hidden Easter eggs. In Etched’s AI-fueled dystopia, Oasis is an interactive model where we can play a hallucinated clone of the worst Minecraft world ever imagined.

Cupertino startup Etched recently unveiled Oasis, a new AI experiment described as the first model capable of generating open-world games. Built with the help of Decart, Oasis generates an unlikely Minecraft experience frame-by-frame. Each new frame is derived from the previous and by player input.

Oasis resembles a low-definition Minecraft with dementiabecause of the garbled approximations of the original pixelated graphics. Etched is “excited” to bring this AI-fueled nightmare to the world, stating that future interactive experiences will be much better …