"Recently, NORAD's Santa Tracker teamed up with OpenAI to introduce new AI-powered features. These include an image generator that transforms your selfie into an animated elf character, a tool for generating toy ideas and converting them into printable coloring book pages, and a fill-in-the-blank storytelling tool that allows families to add names, places, and other details to create a fun holiday story to read aloud."
"Rather than a 2D model, the NORAD Santa tracker has a 3D visual depiction of Santa's journey as the platform was built on Cesium's open source 3D mapping library. It also uses Bing Maps satellite imagery, making the globe look more "realistic." Along with the tracker tool, users can also see a "Santa Cam," which has videos of Santa making his way around the world to deliver presents to every kid on the nice list."
NORAD launched the first Santa tracker in 1955 and expanded from a simple animation to interactive features including mini-games, videos, stories, and Christmas music. The tracker now integrates AI through a partnership with OpenAI, offering an image generator that turns selfies into animated elf characters, a toy-idea generator that converts concepts into printable coloring-book pages, and a fill-in-the-blank storytelling tool for personalized family stories. The platform uses Cesium’s open-source 3D mapping library and Bing Maps satellite imagery to present a realistic 3D globe. Additional features include a Santa Cam, North Pole Village, holiday countdown, and mobile apps.
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