We’re thinking: Like fighting spam and fraud, thwarting aimbots is a game of cat and mouse. Unscrupulous players may have taken millions of dollars in competition money. Why it matters: Electronic gaming is a lucrative industry - and so is the market for products that make it easier to win. Userviz was one of several on the market, and some enterprising cheaters have coded their own. Tools that use computer vision operate independently of the game and therefore are harder to detect. Typically, such cheats are add-ons to game software. Activision recently banned 60,000 players of Call of Duty: Warzone for using them.
A video capture card streamed the game’s output to another computer that ran a YOLO object detector trained to recognize game avatars.(Professional gamers have reaction times between 100 and 250 milliseconds.) It worked like this: It identified and fired on targets in under 10 milliseconds. How it works: Userviz worked with any shooter that runs on PC, PlayStation, or Xbox.
A system that implemented the technique was shut down last week. What’s new: A video-game hack uses computer vision to blast virtual enemies at superhuman speed, Ars Technica reported.
Gamers looking to cheat in first-person shooters can’t miss with AI-assisted marksmanship.
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