
On the surface, Capcom and Virgin Voyages have very little in common. The former is a 46-year-old Japanese video game company firmly centered in the virtual world with popular franchises like “Street Fighter” and “Resident Evil.” The latter is a Florida-based cruise line whose business model is physical, centered on a fleet of four ships.
But both find themselves in Las Vegas this week at a developer conference hosted by Google Cloud, where on Wednesday they will separately debut new applications of AI that do have a common theme: guiding the explorer.