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How the metaverse will help financial organizations transform employee and customer experience on Microsoft Cloud

CIO

For financial institutions, it can transform the way they offer services and training, making them more convenient, engaging, accessible and inclusive.” Metaverse applications are developing quickly. According to  Gartner , 25% of people will spend at least an hour in the metaverse by 2026.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

TechCrunch

ByondXR – Provides retail 3D virtual experiences that are fast, scalable and in line with the latest metaverse technologies. echo3D – Cloud platform for 3D/AR/VR that provides tools and network infrastructure to help quickly build and deploy 3D/metaverse apps, games and content. NeuroTrainer, Inc. I-EMS Group, Ltd.

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Here are the 23 companies pitching at Alchemist Accelerator’s Demo Day XXVIII today

TechCrunch

Copyright Delta : A blockchain-based platform for verifying and managing who owns the rights to a piece of media. OnTrack Rehab : An in-home training program meant to help seniors improve their balance and reduce falls. The Bright App : An all in one platform for virtual personal trainers (weightlifting, yoga, dance, etc.),

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO

The biggest worries are coming from websites that recognize how their data may be used to train AI models. GPUs Graphic processing units were first developed to speed up rendering complex visual scenes but lately developers have been discovering that the chips can also accelerate algorithms that have nothing to do with games or 3D worlds.

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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Shutterstock will be collaborating with OpenAI to build a model based on DALL-E that has been trained only on art that Shutterstock has licensed. They will also put in place a plan for compensating artists whose work was used to train the model. The result is a robot that can perform tasks that it has not been explicitly trained to do.

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Radar Trends to Watch: July 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Big Science has almost finished training its open source BLOOM language model , which was developed by volunteer researchers and trained using public funds. It may be an artifact of the model’s inability to say “I didn’t understand that”; given nonsense input, it is pulled towards similar words in the training corpus.

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Is the metaverse inching closer to reality?

Capgemini

What the metaverse represents for the world today is essentially the evolution of the internet to a 3D immersive platform. Would it not be far more personal to enable people to explore the company interactively in a 3D hall or gallery? Would the subsequent training not be more interesting and more effective if it was truly “hands-on”?