Adobe’s AI experiments let you walk around in photos and interview your characters

<figure> <img alt="Project Screen Test previewed at Adobe Max 2026." data-caption="Project Screen Test lets you talk with AI-generated characters to shape their personality. | Image: Adobe" data-portal-copyright="Image: Adobe" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/11/Adobe-Project-Screen-Test.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> Project Screen Test lets you talk with AI-generated characters to shape their personality. | Image: Adobe </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Some of the most impressive tech that Adobe showcases at its annual Max conference each year is the experimental features it's developing, and the latest of those tools are being announced today: they can transform images into explorable 3D scenes, design AI characters by talking to them, and turn photo editing into a copy/paste process.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The first (and weirdest, in my opinion) is Project Screen Test, which is designed to make AI-generated characters easier to develop and use for video content. Instead of just describing how the character should sound and behave in text prompts, the tool lets you talk to the character and direct them in an a …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1031505/adobe-max-2026-sneaks-experiments-ai">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>