"This week in the ➡️ #Metaverse" #32
February 26, 2023
"This week in the ➡️ #Metaverse" #32
Your weekly roundup of what’s happening in the digital land(scape). Metaverse ethics, governance and interesting trends from crypto, gaming and regulation.
👁️🗨️What's going on:
Apple’s Reality Pro headset might be delayed, but journalists are confirming its new features,“in-air typing” alongside “passthrough cameras,hand and eye control and ultra-high-resolution displays.
Also, has been reported that Apple's mixed reality headset development taken over by Chinese supplier
#DaysOfTheFuturePast : As Microsoft embraces AI, it says sayonara to the metaverse, while also freezes the industrial metaverse
🤖I Am Not A Robot: AI news
Creating new levels for Mario with generative AI: MarioGPT level generator uses a GPT-2 model to create fun new levels.
OpenAI Is Faulted by Media for Using Articles to Train ChatGPT
Arriving late to the AI party, Meta presents new large language model, LLaMa (a weird acronym for Large Language Model Meta AI).
I can imagine the name brainstorming…META Language? METAL! nopes. What about, Large Language Model Meta? oh wait…LAME.AI
Reporter at Motherboard made an AI clone of herself
🤦The WTF award of the week goes to…
Congress Wants To Regulate Artificial Intelligence — and It's Using A Bill Written By ChatGPT …
🎮Gaming news
Ukraine seeks to remove Atomic Heart from game stores. Ministry issues caution against possible user data threats from the FPS and notes its funding from Russian enterprises
💸CryptoLand:
What does Neal Stephenson, crypto-beans and Jack’s cow have in common?
United States District Court judge for the Southern District of New York ruled that emojis like the rocket ship, stock chart and money bags mean “a financial return on investment, ". 🙅♂️
Meme corner:
Ending nugget:
"XR narratives (particularly as a sales pitch for VR) tend to focus on how immersive they can be, that is, they are centered on how we enter an experience, but there is much less consideration on how we emerge from it.
Which steps do we need to take to safely go back from a deeply immersive VR experience? How do we re-enter our physical body and space after experiencing virtual embodiment? In the long term, can you separate the effects in our cognition, when your body and mind are tricked into feeling something as real? Essentially, what would those rituals of VR aftercare look like?"
Some notes on Diving decompression and VR aftercare
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