AR/VR/Web3 Insights
Following a fantastic event at Le Grand Palais for NFT Paris, people have been reveling in everything they have seen to be coming up in the Web3 industry. Something that caught the eye quickly was the fascinating storytelling art of the NFT RENGA collection which is a concept inspired by Japanese-style Manga art and anime created by digital artist Dirty Robot. RENGA is a collection of 10,000 PFP characters that are hand-drawn and each incredibly unique. They are sold in Black Box form - each box is a portal to an archetype of the RENGA world.
The WorldwideWebb stand was an amazing insight into NFT gaming. You can brave the crypto gaming dungeon and craft your gaming experience using your NFTs as weapons and face off against the mighty Cyberkong in their Roguelite game!
The stand inspired by the concept of the Egyptian myth of Ra, ThePassageofRa?is a new NFT installation by A.A.Murakami that juxtaposes the ephemeral nature of a fleeting moment with the immutable permanence of the blockchain.?The Passage of Ra?will only exist as a Mataverse installation at NFT Paris for days, but it will be forever captured in an 12-minute generative art video, which will be sold in 1-minute segments on MakersPlace in March 2023.
It was amazing to see the renowned sculptor Tom Sachs at NFT Paris showing his project Metaverse. In recent years, he has also been exploring the world of web3 with his passion project, the Tom Sachs Rocket Factory (TSRF), which aims to create a decentralized space program that combines art, technology, and space exploration. Through his partnership with NFT Paris, Sachs is helping to shape the future of the art world and redefine what it means to be an artist in the digital age. (Journal Du Coin )
Google earlier this month pushed the ball forward by announcing that Multisearch is now available on any mobile device where?Google Lens ?is already available. For those unfamiliar, Lens is Google’s AR feature that provides informational overlays on items you point your phone at. This applies computer vision, which is AI-driven. And with multisearch, visuals join text to offer optionality for users more inclined towards one or the other. For example, sometimes it’s easier to point your phone at items you encounter IRL, versus describing them with text. But starting a search in that visual modality only gets you so far. Being able to then refine or filter those results with text (per the above green shirt example) is where the magic happens. And the use cases will begin to expand beyond fashion to fill out all the reaches of web search. For example, Google noted that it’s working on a flavor of Multisearch that will launch image searches from wherever you are on your phone. Known as “search your screen” it brings Google Lens from your outward-facing smartphone camera to anything that shows up on your screen. (AR Insider )
Snapchat is the latest company to get in on the AI frenzy. The company?announced ?today that it’s launching “My AI,” a new chatbot running the latest version of OpenAI’s GPT technology that it has customized for its users. My AI is now available as an experimental feature for?Snapchat+ , the social network’s $3.99 a month subscription service. The new chatbot will be pinned to the top of the Chat tab. My AI can do things like help answer a trivia question or write a haiku. My AI was trained to have a unique voice and personality that plays into its values about “friendship, learning and fun.” It has also been trained to adhere to the app’s trust and safety guidelines. “My AI can recommend birthday gift ideas for your BFF, plan a hiking trip for a long weekend, suggest a recipe for dinner, or even write a haiku about cheese for your cheddar-obsessed pal,” the company wrote in a?blog post . “Make My AI your own by giving it a name and customizing the wallpaper for your Chat.” (Tech Crunch )
Xiaomi , a provider of consumer electronics and smart manufacturing solutions, has this week announced at Mobile World Congress 2023 (MWC 2023) its brand new augmented reality (AR) glasses with the introduction of the Xiaomi Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition. The glasses represent Xiaomi’s first wireless AR device to utilize distributed computing, and offer a retina-level adaptive display that adjusts to the lighting environment. With enhanced connectivity to a Snapdragon Spaces ready smartphone, the company’s new AR device enables innovative hand tracking at a refined level, supports a comprehensive range of applications for larger displays, and offers innovations in inter-device compatibility, according to Xiaomi. Instead of relying on a wired connection to a host computing device, Xiaomi’s AR glasses weigh just 126g and adopt Xiaomi-developed high-speed interconnection buses to achieve high-speed data connection from a smartphone. Built on the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 Platform and featuring Xiaomi’s proprietary low-latency communication link, the company states that its glasses, which support Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform, offer a wireless latency of as low as 3ms between a smartphone device to the glasses, and a wireless connection comparable to wired solutions with full link latency as low as 50ms. (Auganix )
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Apple has chosen China's Luxshare to help develop augmented reality devices, Nikkei Asia has learned, the first time the iPhone maker has tapped a Chinese supplier for a first-generation product. Luxshare, China's rapidly rising tech manufacturing champion, has taken over the AR development team in Shanghai that was previously owned by Taiwan's Pegatron, according to five people with knowledge of the matter. Luxshare's participation is a milestone for Chinese tech suppliers. In previous decades, Apple has relied on Taiwanese suppliers like Foxconn to help it develop the first generations of new product lines. Its decision to rely on a Chinese player like Luxshare comes amid heightened tech tensions between the U.S. and China, and scrutiny of Apple's own reliance on its?supply chain in China . Chiu Shih-fang, a tech supply chain analyst with the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, said Chinese suppliers used to be the latecomers in the Apple supply chain and Luxshare's foray into new product development is a sign of the company's growing importance to Apple. (Asia Nikkei )
Metaverse Fashion Week (MVFW), scheduled for March 28-31 in Decentraland has revealed its line-up. The Luxury Fashion District sponsored by immersive art & culture platform UNXD will house virtual storefronts from many of the global brands that debuted at last year’s event. However, there will be increased focus on co-creation, collaboration and community input. Alongside daily product drops, the Tommy Hilfiger experience will feature artificial intelligence (AI) generated fashion —gaining ground among IRL brands with designers like?Christopher Kane using AI? to create some of the prints he showed at this month’s London Fashion Week — plus a community competition with the winner chosen by Mr Hilfiger himself. Dundas is partnering with?DRESSX ?on wearables, and UME for its avatars while the Dolce & Gabbana space will exhibit winning designs from Future Reward, its digital design competition spotlighting emerging talent with the creation of a co-branded wearables collection. DKNY will host an art gallery, pizzeria and rooftop lounge dubbed DKNY.3. (Forbes )
Meta now has a team dedicated to building tools powered by artificial intelligence, CEO Mark Zuckerberg?announced in a post on Monday . This could eventually include “AI personas” designed to help people in “various ways” in addition to new AI tools across its apps and services. More specifically, Zuckerberg says the company is working on AI “experiences” with text, such as chat with Messenger and WhatsApp, experiences with images for things like “creative Instagram filters and ad formats” as well as “video and multi-modal experiences.”?According to?Axios , the new AI team will be led by Ahmad Al-Dahle, Meta’s vice president of AI and machine learning, who previously worked on Apple’s special product group. “We’re creating a new top-level product group at Meta focused on generative AI to turbocharge our work in this area,” Zuckerberg writes. “We have a lot of foundational work to do before getting to the really futuristic experiences, but I’m excited about all of the new things we’ll build along the way.” (The Verge )
Avaturn is a new product from the in3D startup that can help you recreate yourself in an avatar form. This avatar-building tool needs just three selfies to create a realistic avatar head; then, you can pick your body type, clothes, and hairstyle. As a result, you get a fully rigged 3D avatar that can be animated and exported anywhere. It’s incredibly easy. Upload three pictures of your face, taken from the front and the side, to the?Avaturn website . After that’s done, you choose your physique, attire, and haircut. You now possess a fully rigged 3D avatar that is ready for animation and exportation to any location. There are several benefits of using Avaturn. First of all, it’s a really simple and easy-to-use product. You don’t need to install anything and can do everything online. It’s also a great way to create a realistic 3D avatar of yourself. And last but not least, it’s totally free, so why not give it ago! A true-to-life avatar platform called in3D may be added to apps, games, and the internet. With in3D, you can instantly turn your consumers into photorealistic 3D avatars using any mobile phone camera and a selfie. Once integrated, your user’s avatars are immediately usable in any digital environment created using Unity, Unreal Engine 4, or Unreal Engine 5. (Metaverse Post )
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