Chen Cao at Meta is demonstrating an incredible new method of generating highly detailed volumetric faces based entirely on a simple 2-axis self scan from a phone in both neutral and expressive poses. Then you can drive them with flat real-time video. Remarkable. #SIGGRAPH2022

*NEW* Forbes Tech @TiliaPay which powers the Second Life economy, spins off in deal with world's largest bank J.P. Morgan Anyone with a virtual world can now instantly implement the system in their game, social, or mobile apps. t.ly/F6dt

For anyone still saying 'VR isn't/won't be a thing' this is pretty difficult to refute evidence to the contrary. Yeah it's not the smartphone market yet, but there's a real market here that could be the cusp of something massive.

BMW out here taking VR to the next level This one is definitely worth a watch (i'm biased tho tbh) youtu.be/P-zh2gAkWCU BMW M Motorsport

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Meta's new #QuestPro tracks your hands and eyes to animate avatars. Our team Shopify wondered if the same tech could give merchants insight into shopping patterns within their store… Could VR give retailers a fresh perspective? 🧵👇 #vr #passthrough #futureofretail

The Microsoft <> OpenAI news is much bigger than we first thought: - $10 billion investment in the works, with Microsoft getting 75% of revenue until it recoups all $10b - GPT in Office, not just Bing

The real AI winner: Microsoft - $1bn in OpenAI (2019) - Owns GitHub which released Copilot - Dalle powers Bing Image Creator - Valle which produces an AI voice from 3s of input - GPT in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook etc - GPT-powered Bing - $10bn, 49% stake in OpenAI + 75% profit

By the year 2030, there will be a digital twin of the whole planet Earth. I know there is Google earth etc...but I am talking #3d #technology #innovation

The Italian privacy regulator today ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations. The authority said it will investigate and block OpenAI, the U.S. company behind the AI tool, from processing the data of Italian users. pro.politico.eu/news/161880

The new BloombergGPT AI may be harbinger of the next wave of corporate AI. Current AIs are trained on web data (though firms can add their own training) BloombergGPT is 52% either proprietary data or cleaned financial data. And it shows signs of being better at financial tasks.

Google again reaffirmed their commitment to bringing a new Android to XR devices “Together with Samsung, we’re building a new immersive XR platform powered by Android. We’ll share more later this year.”

The Apple headset is so good.

Apple made virtual avatars that look like you

It was like watching a greatest hits album of everyone else's work....

For those questioning Apple’s “virtual screen” based use-cases shown in the keynote, this isn’t due to a lack of technical ability or imagination… my friend @CactusWool introduced me to the “conceptual ladder” when designing & marketing new tech. It applies here… 1/2

The timing of Elon Musk data scraping rules and OpenAI widening the release of "browsing" function are not coincidence. Pretty much all content/IP is going to need to move behind paywalls, to blockchain or something similar to charge microtransactions for

Vicious Self-Degradation > you Google > Quora spots query and id’s as frequent > Quora uses ChatGPT to generate answer > ChatGPT hallucinates > Google picks up Quora answer as highest probability correct answer > ChatGPT hallucination is now canonical Google answer