News Activision’s big contribution to AI is Call of Duty: Warzone data

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Activision is sharing an open-source dataset for Call of Duty: Warzone’s Caldera map for researchers to study and to help support AI model training. “This first-of-its-kind data set release for Call of Duty, now available in OpenUSD, contains the near-complete geometry of Caldera as well as a collection of randomly selected anonymized time samples showing how players move around the map,” Activision writes in a blog post.

It’s a huge dataset. According to Michael Vance, an Activision SVP and fellow software engineer, it’s not only one of “the largest production-validated open data set releases from the gaming industry in terms of complexity of geometry and instance counts” but also one of the largest publicly available OpenUSD data...

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