There is a sensory gulf between the Earth that humans inhabit and the digital
realms in which modern AI agents are created. To develop AI agents that can
sense, think, and act as flexibly as humans in real-world settings, it is
imperative to bridge the realism gap between the digital and physical worlds.
How can we embody agents in an environment as rich and diverse as the one we
inhabit, without the constraints imposed by real hardware and control? Towards
this end, we introduce V-IRL: a platform that enables agents to scalably
interact with the real world in a virtual yet realistic environment. Our
platform serves as a playground for developing agents that can accomplish
various practical tasks and as a vast testbed for measuring progress in
capabilities spanning perception, decision-making, and interaction with
real-world data across the entire globe.

开发能够在真实世界中像人类一样感知、思考和行动的 AI 代理，需要弥合数字与物理世界之间的现实差距。为此，我们引入了 V-IRL：一个使代理能够在虚拟现实环境中与真实世界进行可扩展交互的平台，旨在开发能够完成各种实际任务的代理，并以广阔的测试基地来衡量不同领域的进展，包括感知、决策和与全球真实数据的交互能力。