Virtual reality Star Trek game uses Watson AI to decipher players' voice commands

The original Star Trek predicted using voice commands to interact with computers, but decades later the technology still isn’t fully mature.

While the likes of Siri and Alexa have made great strides, users still have to speak predictably and have fairly limited options.

Clunky commands like this wouldn’t feel right in a Star Trek video game, so the developers of the VR title “Star Trek: Bridge Crew” turned to IBM’s Watson AI to interpret what players say.