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The Metaverse Is Not a Place

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Seen through the lens of the real estate metaphor, the metaverse becomes a natural successor not just to Second Life but to the World Wide Web and to social media feeds, which can be thought of as a set of places (sites) to visit. But it’s super hard to do from a technical standpoint and you give up a bunch of other things.

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Synthesis AI raises $17M to generate synthetic data for computer vision

TechCrunch

Behzadi, of course, asserts that Synthesis has taken meaningful steps toward overcoming these technical hurdles. “Leading companies in the AR, VR, and metaverse space are using our diverse digital humans and accompanying rich set of 3D facial and body landmarks to build more realistic and emotive avatars,” Behzadi said.

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F2F Still Matters

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 16, 2007 F2F Still Matters Kathy Sierra has a great post today: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. Online you will have an incredibly realistic experience (think how good virtual actors are these days - add 3D - presence based audio - first person shooters).