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Meta has reported its first-quarter earnings for 2023, posting a 3% year-over-year increase in revenue to $28.65 billion. Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company had a good quarter and that its community continues to grow. He added that AI is driving good results across Meta’s apps and business.
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“Currently, the metaverse is not personal enough. We have no eye contact and there is no emotional connection,” says Remco Sikkema, Movella. According to him, this is a condition for …
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Aragorn Meulendijks: “With the metaverse, our digital and physical lives converge”
The metaverse is a world in which our virtual and physical world seamlessly merge. That means that the internet will become as 3D as the rest of our life, says …
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RAF Spitfire pilots train emergencies in Microsoft Flight Simulator
Flying Iron Simulations and the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby have collaborated in using Microsoft Flight Simulator and 3D printed controls to provide pilots with emergency procedure training. In a video published by Authentikit, Squadron Leader Mark ‘Disco’ Discombe MBE shares his decision-making process during the simulated failure.
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News about the metaverse hype has been dominated in recent months by rounds of layoffs and falling investment. That sounds negative, but according to Remco Sikkema, Movella, it’s very normal …
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Changi Airport Group (CAG) has launched ChangiVerse, a digital metaverse experience of Singapore Changi Airport on Roblox, in partnership with Accenture. The experience offers visitors access to a range of …
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Media group Vivendi has opened the doors to its clubhouse in The Sandbox, an interactive virtual world. The opening of the clubhouse is part of the “French Weeks” event, where …
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Glasses combine AI and augmented reality to aid in conversations
A group of Stanford University students has developed a tool that combines AI and augmented reality (AR) to assist individuals during difficult conversations. The technology, called RizzGPT, uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model and Whisper, a voice recognition tool, to generate responses to questions asked during a conversation.
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Unity, a platform for creating and growing real-time 3D content, has announced the release of “Unity Industry”. This is a set of products and services designed for enterprises to build …
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Due to poor and unreliable network connections, students in rural Michigan miss out on learning with virtual reality. Therefore, T-Mobile collaborates with Prisms VR, a learning platform pioneering in math …