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ㆍ‘STEPIN’ is a global K-POP dance AI platform that enables users to easily create and share dances on their smartphones with people around the world.
ㆍ‘Sidewalk Entertainment’, the south korea startup behind the platform, uses AI technology to recognize motion from a single camera without the need for a motion sensor suit.
ㆍWhat happens when human behavior and AI avatars are linked in real-time?
Dancing in your smartphone
Are you recording a dance challenge video uploading TikTok (Reels/Shorts)? Do you like to dance when you’re alone? you can join people from all over the world on a platform called STEPIN for a K-POP randomized dance challenge. To participate, simply turn on your smartphone, connect to STEPIN, and the AI will teach you a new dance routine. Follow along to create your own dance video and have fun competing against others. Sidewalk Entertainment, the AI-powered startup behind STEPIN, has created a new service that combines social media and gaming elements to make it easy for anyone to enjoy and share K-Pop dances anytime, anywhere, with just a smartphone. The service is available in nine languages, including Korean, English, Japanese, Spanish, and Indonesian, and has been launched in 170 countries worldwide. It has received an overwhelming response, particularly in the United States and Southeast Asia.
Avatar mimics your actions and hides your identity
When you open the app and start dancing, the AI avatar will recognize your movements and imitate them. This is made possible by Sidewalk Entertainment’s proprietary real-time gesture recognition AI technology. The AI can instantly detect your dance moves through your smartphone camera while simultaneously identifying the human joints in the video and analyzing the movements. This allows for objective scoring and comparison of dances with other competitors. With STEPIN’s real-time motion-tracking AI technology, users can enjoy learning, practicing, battling, and analyzing dance motions to their satisfaction.
Also, STEPIN incorporates a technology called ‘neonline-generated AI’ that addresses the issue of social media, where your identity can be easily exposed. With this technology, you can choose to be a ‘shadow’ in the community without revealing yourself. It creates an outline of your body and adds a neon outline, allowing you to post content consisting only of actions while concealing your face. This ensures your anonymity online, giving you the freedom to dance passionately without any worries. You can also share this content on your social media accounts in real time and become the next big TikTok star in no time.
Can you work for me, my avatar?
Looking at STEPIN’s AI avatar, which mimics human behavior, we can imagine a world where people and avatars are connected in real-time. what if there was a future where avatars could do your work for you? For example, if you work in logistics and you need to count the number of items that have been stacked up until today, you would access a virtual world that replicates the environment where the items are stacked. Instead of having to lift and move heavy boxes, you can control your avatar by simply moving something in the air with your hands to count the items. With STEPIN, users can create a full-body avatar from a single photo and personalize it with different AI-generated faces and outfits. If you’re socializing with people in the metaverse, you can be comfortable in your room while your avatar is dressed up in a perfect party look, making you the center of attention. The real you would be holding an empty cup with nothing in it, but your avatar would be sipping a fancy bottle of champagne. Doesn’t that sound fun?
