It is the season 😋😋😋. My wife started to bake her delicious coconut spritz cookies. (Spritz Cookies are cookies traditionally prepared at Christmas in the East of France, and Germany.)

Happy Holidays 😎🎊🥳 A lot of parents will bring #VR headsets home this holiday. Extend Reality with awareness using #VRSafety Tips for Parents: Top 7 #XRSI Recommendations Give the Gift 🎁 of SAFETY😎❤️ 🙏🏼Share in your network🙏🏼 xrsi.org/publication/vr…

Lessons learned while trying to use polycam today. #1 scanning dinner entree on white plate is not easy sketchfab.com/models/02f1c71… #2 scanning the baked Alaska was a fail: no one wanted to wait. I wonder why 🤣

I joined my colleagues, Deans Ayanna Howard and Charles Isbell to highlight the national security risk of failing to diversify STEM fields. We’d love to hear your thoughts. Enjoy!

Georgia Tech has broken into the top 20 higher ed institutions in America for research & development spending. GT was the only technological university to place in the top 20 and had the second highest year-to-year growth of any university. #WeCanDoThat | b.gatech.edu/3FjJXVC

Last year, on 73rd #HumanRightsDay, we hosted the 1st #XRData Classification Roundtable for a safer #Metaverse. Today, celebrating the #SaferInternetDay, we need to make sure that #humanrights are not left behind. Free Download on xrsi.org/publication/vi…

Today starts another key chapter in helping build safe & inclusive #Metaverse with the research & development effort of the #XRSI #Privacy & #Safety Framework v2.0 Join us: xrsi.org/psf2notion Framework details: xrsi.org/psf2

The Eduverse. labster Raises $47 million. I think education is a key vertical for the metaverse. sifted.eu/articles/labst…

Looking forward to presenting tomorrow at Educause CPPC 2022 and talk about XR Security, Privacy, Safety, and Ethics Considerations in Higher Education. Will miss Ricky LaFosse, Jeremy Nelson and Maya Georgieva. Maybe next year we will present in the Meta/Eduverse #CybersecPrivacy22

.John Riccitiello made a good point at #AWE2022 that it doesn't make sense to have a single avatar in the metaverse. As a parallel thought, I think in some worlds you'll want to be yourself (like linkedin) & in others you'll want to be someone different (like pseudo on twitter)

It will never get easier, handle hard better!

Here's my review of Matthew Ball's new #Metaverse book on Medium, free of the paywalls. t.ly/_f1H

I had a great time chatting with Ted Schilowitz and Charlie Fink on This Week In XR Podcast all about how Accenture is using the #Metaverse for onboarding and much more! #NthFloor #OneAccenturePark

🔥 It’s official 🔥 The 3rd Annual Metaverse Safety Week is on 10-15 December 2022, bringing the world together to build an Open, Inclusive & SAFE #Metaverse! ✨Join the Movement✨ metaversesafetyweek.org 📣Register for the Event🗓 tinyurl.com/4cyzahbe #MSW2022 #XRSI

The University of Tokyo is scheduled to open a Metaverse School of Engineering in September. XRSI’s privacy & safety framework + other resources ought to be factored into the curriculum. asianews.network/university-of-…

The joy of science fair projects. Only six bridges were “hurt” in the experiment. Never underestimate the ”strength” of a popsicle stick bridge. The camelback truss bridge was able to support close to 63lbs.

State of GPT - Andrej Karpathy at Microsoft Build Such awesome talk on state of GPT and other LLMs. Karpathy in his usual best teaching style talks about the training paradigms of large language models(pretraining, supervised finetuning, reward modelling, RLHF), prompting

Our new AI Hub will unite efforts to advance the disruptive technology across campus through discovery, interdisciplinary research, responsible deployment, and next-generation education to build a sustainable future. research.gatech.edu/ai-hub-georgia…

As the saying goes, a picture is worth 1,000 words. These Georgia Tech ME students think VR pictures w/interactive visualizations would help students learn complex engineering topics. Their idea won our equity & access innovation competition this year: b.gatech.edu/443RJzs

Do you know why I love this new #AppleVisionPro commercial? Because it conveys the message that wearing a headset is not an isolating weird thing for nerds, but it is as cool as a superhero putting on his helmet youtu.be/aqTIB_q40bo #AugmentedReality #VirtualReality #Apple