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Adobe previews AI tools that let users talk to characters and walk through photos
Adobe showed experimental AI features at its Adobe MAX 2026 conference, including a tool for shaping AI characters through speech, a tool that turns images into explorable 3D scenes, and real-time generative effects for video editing.
Adobe unveiled a set of experimental AI features at its annual Adobe MAX 2026 conference, among them tools that let users speak to AI characters, move around inside photographs and change video while it plays. The projects were presented in the Sneaks segment of the event, a showcase for early work that the company has not yet committed to selling.
The most attention-grabbing project is Project Screen Test. It is aimed at AI characters for video content, and users shape a character's personality by talking to it. Instead of relying only on text prompts, people direct the character by speaking. The reviewer whose impressions informed this report described Screen Test as the strangest of the features shown.
A second tool converts images into 3D scenes that can be explored. Adobe's pitch suggests that photo editing could become something closer to copy and paste, with elements moved between images without the usual manual work.
Project Live Set applies real-time generative AI effects to video. According to the presentation, editors can swap subjects and transform environments in the middle of playback, rather than waiting for a render to finish. Variety also covered Project Live Set.
All three projects are previews. Adobe has not confirmed release timing or whether any of them will become part of its commercial products, and experiments of this kind are typically used to gauge how creators respond before a capability reaches mainstream software.
Source: theverge.com
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