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Virtual reality check: Futurists dissect Amazon’s new ‘Upload’ TV series, and its digital afterlife

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The new series “Upload” on Amazon Prime Video is set 13 years from now, depicting a future in which people can choose a virtual reality afterlife. Amazon Prime Video Image). He’s uploaded to a luxury hotel setting called “Lakeview,” with his in-VR credits paid for by the girlfriend he left behind.

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

Then I headed to my default Oculus 3D home screen, a virtual room that looks like a tropical hotel lobby with palm trees, hanging egg-shaped chairs, and views of red rock mountains in the distance — a definite upgrade from the decor of my 500-square-foot studio apartment. Courtesy of Meta. Why Facebook is going after the metaverse.

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

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Rapid development in 3D, AR, VR, new hardware, digital payments, etc., “Compared to 3-to-5 years ago, massive advancements in bandwidth, chips, software, and new (hardware) platforms … will improve adoption. After months upon months of video calls, the contrast to those interactions I had in the headset was stark.

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The Verge Awards at CES 2022

The Verge

The Verge and countless other outlets had hotel rooms confirmed and airlines booked. The hardware dial to rotate your array of virtual monitors across that wall of screen looks awesome, too, reducing the need to rely on special windowing software to get work done. There needs to be more than 3D renders.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. boyd discovered the potential of computers while still in high school, and her college undergraduate thesis investigated how the cues in 3D computer systems were “inherently sexist”.

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