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MeetKai launches new room-scanning tech and metaverse builder

TechCrunch

Not everyone believes that the metaverse — social, VR-centric worlds — has staying power. After tapping a camera-equipped device to record a few seconds of video, users upload the footage to MeetKai Reality, which renders the captured space in VR. But MeetKai is among the steadfast optimists. Image Credits: MeetKai.

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a16z-backed Rooms.xyz lets you build interactive, 3D rooms and simple games in your browser

TechCrunch

Prior to Rooms, Toff spent ten years at Google, off and on, in product marketing and product management, including at YouTube, Area 120, and in VR/AR. A “camera mode” lets you take a photo or a smooth dolly shot, but the end result isn’t one-click publishable to social networks.

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Daily Crunch: In layoff update, Amazon CEO tells workers ‘we plan to eliminate just over 18,000 roles’

TechCrunch

VR isn’t just for the youngins : Rendever, a big startup in the virtual reality space, acquired Alcove from AARP , showing “VR comes of age,” Ingrid reports. This overview includes basic steps for writing a clear headline, offering visitors social proof that builds credibility, and crafting calls to action that drive results.

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Y Combinator-backed Poly uses AI to generate art assets

TechCrunch

As generative AI like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 attract investor attention, startup entrepreneurs are looking to cash in with new business models built around them. Before co-founding Poly with Sam Young, Agarwal was a research fellow at Microsoft, where he published papers in the field of AI for social impact.

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Radar Trends to Watch: June 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AI has infiltrated programming, security, and virtually every branch of technology. By the time you read this, Apple may have announced their ultra-expensive, ultra-stylish AR headset; that may be enough to break the Metaverse out of its AR/VR winter. Not surprisingly, GPT 4 is the leader. Chirper is a social network for AI.

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The 11 ways in which the metaverse is shifting software development  

Capgemini

The metaverse is a virtual reality that allows us to interact with a fully virtual (and immersive) environment just as we do in real life, doing the same things we would in real life. Many consider the metaverse as the internet V3, with V1 back in the 1990s, and the emergence of social media at the start of the 2000s as V2.

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Radar Trends to Watch: March 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

There are hints at other applications such as using Genie to develop virtual worlds for training other kinds of AI. OpenAI is experimenting with long-term memory in ChatGPT (i.e., is a Java Virtual Machine for Web Assembly. It can also ask ChatGPT for performance suggestions. Think Mario Brothers, not Star Wars.)

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