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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a neat way to encapsulate some current trends in online infrastructure, including the growth of real-time 3D worlds. Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people.

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Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list

Trends in the Living Networks

Applications list is now officially launched - the full list is below, after appearing this morning in a feature section in BRW magazine on Web 2.0. applications. applications. application. * A few more applications have come to our attention since the list was finalized. The Top 100 Web 2.0 Website: [link].

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How generative AI could change the way video games are developed, tested, and played

GeekWire

A recent example came earlier this month from the Seattle-based creators of the popular social app Rec Room , which debuted Fractura, an in-game room created as a “research project” to demonstrate how players can use generative AI to create their own content for Rec Room. It may soon be applied to actual gameplay. Bellevue, Wash.-based

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Check out the best AI room planners to enhance your living area

Dataconomy

You can choose the AI room planner that best meets your specific requirements by being aware of your wants, giving user-friendly interfaces, extensive catalogs, accurate 3D visualization, and collaborative possibilities first priority. Although it is not entirely free, you will first receive 5 free renders. Remodeled.ai

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

The hope is that these new analog chips will use dramatically less power making them useful for any of the mobile and distributed applications on machines that aren’t always plugged in. Chance of succeeding: The success or failure will probably be governed by the nature of the applications.

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We asked seven venture capitalists if the metaverse is the next big thing or just a lot of hype

GeekWire

Rapid development in 3D, AR, VR, new hardware, digital payments, etc., Game spaces like Roblox, social spaces like Discord, digital conference spaces like Demio — to me these are all currently existing manifestations of the metaverse.” SyncFloor provides micro-licensed music to digital creators.

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Six Trends that are transforming Living Online: Presentation at Influence conference - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

3D TV without glasses is a reality and not far from commercialization. While 3D efforts using colored or polarizing glasses will continue for some time, the real future is in providing different images to each eye, as in Philips’ 3D TV initiatives. It will also be possible to generate realistic 3D images from 2D video.

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