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THE EVER-CHANGING WORLD

Here are the lateste tidbits of news to help you stay up to speed and be inspired.

THE BIG IDEA IN TECHNOLOGY THIS WEEK:

Meta will launch a $1,499 'mixed-reality' headset on 25th October - Meaning users can choose to see the world around them aka augmented reality. With windows becoming available the goal could be more corporate users.

Mixed reality headset [ 3min read + Sexy Cool Video]

Artificial intelligence will undoubtedly play a huge role in creating metaverse environments. If you're not up to speed with the AI image creation phenomenon watch this - its only four weeks old but already the tech has moved on (see next link!):

What's all this AI image creation about [video - 15 min]

Google's Imagen video can produce 5-second video from written prompts. AI Image creation capabilities continue to evolve at a frightening pace:

AI can create video now[ 2 min read + AI Video generated examples]

THE BIG IDEA IN MARKETING THIS WEEK:

Don't you just love those posts 'Now anyone can be a marketer with these tools!' yeah cus it's that easy?! -- But the right tools certainly help, have you heard of all these before? how many are you using?

Since we're on the topic of tools - 10 mind-blowing AI websites that you’ve never heard of that can help you work efficiently:

10 A.I. Tools [ Twitter Thread 3min read ]

THE BIG IDEA IN THE NEWS:

The cost of living, economic meltdown, nuclear meltdown, will civilisation collapse? Here's a more positive outlook that talks about Protopia:

Will Civilisation collapse? [Video - 6 min]

Imagine Ron Burgundy and Ros Atkins had a love child, then that creation decided to make an informative deadpan explainer video about the current state of the economy...

Tongue in cheeky News explainer [Video - 3 min]

VISUAL INSPIRATION:

Does a company that makes sheets need an explainer video - Yes if you want to position your 300-thread sheets as better quality than the competition's inferior 500-thread sheets

Thanks for reading.

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Luke Wilcoxson

Founder and Creative Director @ Only the Bold