ChatGPT wrote ten percent of our summary this week. We tried to get him to summarize and analyze the stories we covered, but he just refused to cooperate, probably because we’re not very smart fast engineers. On the one hand, I agree that AI can be as transformative as the web or cellular computing. On the other hand, the Internet, with a great impulse from the cell phone, needed fifteen intelligent years to change absolutely. . . hey. . . all. And when we say everything in this context, we are really underestimating the effect of the Internet over the last thirty years.
XRSPACE raises $25 million to expand live 3D reporting in the metaverse. The company was founded in 2017 through Peter Chou, the former CEO of HTC. -in the PartyOn and GOXR applications in 2021. La company claims that PartyOn, its virtual music event platform, has 700,000 users who have joined more than 50,000 user-generated parties in the metaverse with XRSPACE technology. Users can also customize their own 3-d avatars that track the movements of their frames.
Mytaverse closes $7. 6 million to further expand its Enterprise Metaverse platform. The three-year-old Miami-based company uses cloud streaming to bring high-fidelity graphics to virtual worlds used for everything from education to giant conferences. They can also accommodate thousands of concurrent users. Blumberg Capital led the round, joining through Baselayer Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Accelerator Ventures and others.
Social Future, an AI-focused social metaverse company, raises $6 million in May. The company’s social investment (“Meet Another You”) is built with blockchain and AI. It offers bespoke three-dimensional spaces and avatars, NFT games and AI-enabled technology. Fellows. Social Future says that since its launch in January, they have enrolled more than 20,000 exclusive active wallets (UAW) consistent with the week. Capital and Mindfulness Capital participated in the financing.
The ‘Blacktop Hoops’ studio announces a circular investment of $ 5. 1 million, the open beta is now online. Vinci Games, the studio of the popular VR basketball game, was funded in the past through Y Combinator, and also ended a modest $60,000 Kickstarter crusade in September 2022. Blacktop Hoops is now on the Quest App Lab and offers 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, and 4v4 matches. The circular was led through Makers Fund, with participation from Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Pioneer Fund, Anorak Ventures, BonAngels and Twitch co. -founder Kevin Lin.
MetaGravity raises $9. 5 million to create a Metaverse platform capable of supporting ONE MILLION concurrent users. The participation of Sino Global Capital, Spartan Group, Market One Capital, Gravity Fund, Perridon Holdings, Pancasila, Ex-Capital, Mulana, Cogent Ventures, Agrippa Capital, K5 Global Ventures, Moonpay and Project Godijra.
SenseGlove has raised €3. 25 million in a Series A. The excursion was carried out through a Dutch technological fund Lumaux. Previously, SenseGlove had raised the budget from foreign investors, adding Forward. One and Value Creation Capital. It is approximately EUR 5. 5 million.
Apple’s WWDC, June 2022.
Apple Watcher Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman stores the main points of Apple earphones. Apple is said to be adapting millions of iPad programs for its next combined truth headset, which will combine virtual truth and augmented truth. There are no external controllers or trackers. Manual tracking, gestures, and a virtual keyboard are the way users will manage the device. The new device comes with a streamlined edition of Safari, as well as Apple features for Calendars, Contacts, Files, Home Control, Mail, Maps, Messages, Notes, Photos, Reminders, Music, News, Stocks, and Weather apps—all which will look just like their iPad counterparts. Your avatar chat will make it look like the other user is in the room with you. Apple is also reportedly preparing an edition of Apple Books for the headset, which will allow users to read in virtual reality, as well as a camera app and a meditation app. The company is also testing a headset edition of its Fitness+ service, which will allow users to work out while watching an instructor in virtual reality. Games will also be a central component of the device’s appeal. The headset will run various programs. Macrumors’ favorite Apple leaker, Evan Blass, claims to know someone who had a chance to “demo” the headphones and was “blown away” by the experience and hardware. Scott Hayden has posted a long list of rumors about the Apple Reality HMD features in RoadtoVR.
Evan Spiegel, founder and CEO of Snapchat, speaks at Snap Partner Summit 2023 at BarkerArray. [ ] Hangar in Santa Monica, California, April 19, 2023, where they concentrate on immersive augmented truth and generation reports for other people attending music concerts. (Photo via Frederic J. BROWN/AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
The Snap Partner Summit (SPS 2023) was held Wednesday at the company’s headquarters in and around Venice, California. . Recently, Snap went through a painful RIF and shut down its Pixie drone, which it just unveiled last November. It revealed plans to remove its technologies from the app in public positions.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — APRIL 19: Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel speaks at the level at Snap Monica. [ ] Partner Summit 2023 at Barker Hangar on April 19, 2023 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images Snap, Inc. )
Snap is rolling out an AI chatbot and augmented reality installations for businesses. AR features, called “Local Lenses,” allow businesses to create custom AR reports for their physical locations. The chatbot service, called “Voice Commands,” allows users to interact with businesses. voice commands. Snap hopes those new facilities will help businesses engage with consumers and drive revenue expansion through e-commerce outside of its app and at component sites. The move is part of Snap’s efforts to expand its offerings beyond social media and advertising. .
Magic mirror in retail
Snap is releasing augmented truth mirrors in stores. In a similar move out of app and into the physical world, Snap is bringing Gen AR to stores so consumers can see virtual outfits and accessories, see others in other lighting conditions, and get personalized recommendations. Naturally, consumers are encouraged to share their virtual fit reports on social media.
Building on Snap’s multi-year partnership with concert promoter Live Nation, the company will bring augmented reality reporting to 16 music festivals worldwide, adding Lollapalooza in Chicago and Governors Ball in New York City.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. , Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is laying off 11,000 people, or about 13% of its workforce, as it faces broader problems from the tech industry. Zuckerberg said in a letter to workers on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)
More layoffs hit Meta this week, adding Realty Labs workers. As Zuckerberg and his company turn their attention to AI, investments elsewhere are needed, so it’s inevitable that regardless, pruning will succeed in overstaffed Reality Labs and its myriad XR ambitions. some of which are a decade or more away from completion.
Mark Zuckerberg met the legendary climber Alex Honnold in his new Horizon Home, launched with Array. [ ] Quest v41″. This update brings a social presence to your virtual home as soon as you put on your headphones. Invite your friends to hang out, watch videos together, or apps directly from your virtual home. More features to customize the area of your house lately in development,” read the post that set up the video.
Meta Horizon was invaded by ten-year-olds. Now it’s official. The company announced that its truly virtual social platform, Horizon Worlds, is now open to teens. Anyone who uses the truly virtual social platform knows that it’s been full of tweens since its launch. Followers of this column and its eponymous podcast have heard me. They continually say that, despite Meta’s efforts to be a diligent police officer, they have created Horizon a paradise for predators. young people and depend on Meta instead. It’s not going to end well.
YouTube technology critic ^^ Dan Olson ^^ lashes out at Decentraland and the Metaverse so hard that it hurts me in the physical world. Is the technical press too gullible? Of course we are. But then we turn on the advertising we help create. We repudiate it. We ask who said it so wonderful: The metaverse is nothing but a made-up word from a science fiction novel!
^^ Skinny Ape’s Gorillaz functionality at Coachella 2023 is now on YouTube. Look at the AR above. ^^ To see and listen.
John Riccitiello’s keynote address at AWE 2022.
Now in its thirteenth year, Augmented World Expo announced speakers for its May 31-June 2 convention in Santa Clara, California. Among the 400 speakers are Neal Stephenson (author, co-founder of Lamina 1), Rony Abovitz (founder of Magic Leap), John Riccitello (CEO, Unity), Peggy Johnson (CEO Magic Leap), Chi Xu (Nreal), Philip Rosedale (founder, High Fidelity and Second Life), Hugo Swart (VR, GM, XR), Tom Furness (U. Washington), Joanna Popper (CAA), Alvin Graylin (President HTC China), Ted Schiliowitz (Paramount Global Futurist) and Cathy Hackl (Travel). The convention, the world’s largest committed to XR and similar technologies, expects more than 5,000 attendees at its convention and exhibition.
This week on XR there is also a podcast presented through this column, Ted Schilowitz, futurist, Paramount Global, and Rony Abovitz, discoverer of Magic Leap. This week, our guest is Raj Bhatia, VP of Products at Roblox. We can be discovered on Spotify, iTunes and YouTube.
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Virtual reality provides real exercise for police officers. The Warren County Police Department in Pennsylvania uses virtual truth generation (VR) to train officers in real-world situations. The branch uses a VR headset and a computer program called MILO Range, which simulates other situations. that agents might encounter at work. The program allows staff to make decisions based on the situation and provides feedback on their performance. The division believes VR exercise offers a more genuine and immersive experience than classic exercise methods, allowing agents to better prepare. for real-world situations.
The avatar doctor will see it now: the NHS will use virtual truth generation to treat patients with intellectual fitness issues. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) plans to use virtual truth generation for patients with intellectual fitness issues. The generation will allow patients to enter a virtual global and interact with computer-generated avatars that simulate real-life conditions so they can monitor their symptoms. The treatment can be used to treat a variety of conditions, adding anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The NHS plans to introduce the generation in the coming years, after a successful trial.
Virtual truth complements classic medical remedies. The article reports on how virtual truth (VR) is being used as a complementary tool to classic medical remedies. anxiety and pain control. The article also explains how the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in the use of the virtual reality generation in healthcare, specifically in telemedicine. The generation of virtual reality is seen as a way to complement classic remedies and patient outcomes.