Metaverse
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- Immersive Reality ... Metaverse ... Omniverse ... Transhumanism ... Religion
- Agents ... Robotic Process Automation ... Assistants ... Personal Companions ... Productivity ... Email ... Negotiation ... LangChain
- Facial Animate
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to Singularity ... Curious Reasoning ... Emergence ... Moonshots ... Explainable AI ... Automated Learning
- Symbiotic Intelligence ... Bio-inspired Computing ... Neuroscience ... Connecting Brains ... Nanobots ... Molecular ... Neuromorphic ... Evolutionary/Genetic
- Molecular Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Gamification ... Crypto Metaverse
- Metaverse Land Properties
- Blockchain
- Video/Image ... Vision ... Enhancement ... Fake ... Reconstruction ... Colorize ... Occlusions ... Predict image ... Image/Video Transfer Learning ... Art ... Photography
- A Day In The Metaverse | | Cathy Hacki - Forbes
- The Metaverse Is Coming And It’s A Very Big Deal | Cathy Hacki - Forbes
- The Metaverse Explained | Gene Munster and Pat Bocchicchio - Loop Ventures
- The pandemic canceled their wedding. So they held it in Animal Crossing | Aron Garst - The Washington Post
- The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite | Matthew Ball
- Matrix For Cows: Rancher 'Traps' Cows In Metaverse To Improve Milk Production | Bharat Sharma - IT Technology
- Mark Zuckerberg Quietly Buries the Metaverse | Luc Olinga - The Street
Metaverse is the alternate digital realities where people work, play, and socialize. Universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected. The Metaverse is a collective virtual shared space, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space, including the sum of all virtual worlds, augmented reality, and the Internet. Wikipedia
Cyberspace, Matrix, Mirror World, AR Cloud, Magicverse, Spatial Internet, Spatial Web, OASIS, Omniverse, Virtual World, or Live Maps
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Alternate Reality
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Virtual Beings (VB)
- Assistants ... Agents ... Negotiation ... LangChain
- Character.AI ... Chat with your favorite Characters, discover millions of user-created AIs, each with their own personality ... iOS and Android
- Replika ... creates a digital representation of you
- Virtual Beings Summit
- A Guide to Virtual Beings and how they impact our World | Eric Peckham - TechCrunch
- The Evolution Of Virtual Beings As Both AI And Art | Dean Takahashi - VentureBeat
- The DeanBeat: It’s time to hurry up and build the Metaverse | Dean Takahashi
- Fable Studio ...relaunching Lucy, a next-generation AI character
- Inworld AI joins metaverse innovation with AI-driven virtual characters | Tom Keary - VentureBeat
- Create video content with virtual humans | Hour One ... Easily convert any text into professional presenter-led videos in minutes in any language
A Virtual Being (VB) is a computer-generated or artificial intelligence-driven character or entity that exists in a virtual environment, such as a video game, virtual world, or augmented reality space. These virtual beings can take various forms, including human-like avatars, animals, or entirely fantastical creatures, and they are typically designed to interact with users or other virtual beings within the digital environment. Virtual beings can serve various purposes, such as companionship, storytelling, gaming opponents, virtual assistants, or even as AI-driven characters in entertainment or educational contexts. They are created to simulate human or non-human behaviors, making them seem lifelike and capable of responding to user inputs or predefined scenarios, enhancing immersion and engagement in virtual experiences. Advances in artificial intelligence and natural language processing have contributed to the development of increasingly sophisticated virtual beings.
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Virtual Worlds
- Simulation ... Simulated Environment Learning ... World Models ... Minecraft: Voyager
- Metaverse Platform Comparison - Virtual Worlds on the Blockchain | ToxSam - Polygonal Mind
A virtual world is a computer-simulated environment which may be populated by many users who can create a personal avatar, and simultaneously and independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities and communicate with others. The user accesses a computer-simulated world which presents perceptual stimuli to the user, who in turn can manipulate elements of the modeled world and thus experience a degree of presence. Such modeled worlds and their rules may draw from reality or fantasy worlds. Example rules are gravity, topography, locomotion, real-time actions, and communication. Communication between users can range from text, graphical icons, visual gesture, sound, and rarely, forms using touch, voice command, and balance senses. Wikipedia
Second Life
Second Life is a virtual world and online platform that was created by Linden Lab and was first launched in 2003. It allows users to create and interact with each other in a digital environment. Here are some key aspects of Second Life:
- User-Created Content: Second Life is known for its user-generated content. Users, known as "residents," can create and customize their own avatars, objects, and environments. This has led to a wide variety of creative and unique experiences within the virtual world.
- Social Interaction: Second Life is a social platform where residents can interact with each other in various ways. They can communicate through text chat, voice chat, or even gestures. There are also social events, clubs, and communities where people can connect with others who share similar interests.
- Virtual Economy: Second Life has its own virtual economy, with a currency called the Linden Dollar (L$). Residents can buy and sell virtual goods and services, and some people even make real-world income through virtual businesses and entrepreneurship within the platform.
- Education and Training: Second Life has been used for educational purposes, such as virtual classrooms and training simulations. Many universities and organizations have established a presence in Second Life to conduct classes, meetings, and conferences.
- Entertainment and Events: The platform hosts various entertainment events, including live music performances, art exhibitions, and virtual tourism experiences. Users can explore different regions and participate in activities ranging from dancing at clubs to attending virtual weddings.
- Real Estate and Land Ownership: Residents can purchase virtual land within Second Life and build their own homes or businesses. The virtual land is divided into regions, each with its own theme or rules set by the landowner.
- User-Driven Governance: Second Life has a unique governance model where certain aspects of the virtual world are governed by the residents themselves. Residents can participate in decision-making processes through forums and voting on various issues.
AI Town
- AI Town | GitHub ... A MIT-licensed, deployable starter kit for building and customizing your own version of AI town - a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize.
- a16z | Andreessen Horowitz’s investment
As the a16z team reported on X, this ambitious project aims to “democratize building your own simulation environment with AI agents.” The innovative project, built in collaboration with portfolio company Convex Dev and inspired by a Stanford Generative Agent paper, 'Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior' introduces a virtual town where AI characters live, chat, and socialize. As per a16z’s GitHub details, AI Town is designed to be a customizable and extensible platform, drawing inspiration from research on generative agents.
Behind the scenes, AI Town relies on a robust tech stack, including...
- Convex Dev ... for its back-end serverless framework
- Pinecone ... for vector storage
- Clerk ... for authentication
- OpenAI for Natural Language Generation (NLG)
- Fly ... for deployment
The platform is essentially a vibrant microcosm of AI characters, each with its unique persona. These AI characters are equipped with the capability to interact with one another in a convincingly human-like manner, creating an intriguing social dynamic within the virtual environment. Each AI character in the town is given a starting prompt that shapes its persona and serves as the basis for its interactions and behavior. As the AI characters engage with each other, they retain the memory of their conversations, allowing for continuity in their interactions. This ability to remember past exchanges leads to distinct narratives for each AI character, further enhancing the realism and complexity of the virtual environment. - VC firm a16z releases open-source microverse packed with generative AI NPCs in AI Town | Liam 'Akiba' Wright - CryptoSlate ... Stanford-inspired AI Town merges cutting-edge tech for unfolding virtual tales
Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
- Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior | S. Park, J, O'Brien, C. Cai, M. Morris, P. Liang, M. Bernstein - Stanford & Google - arXiv
- Generative Agents | mkturkcan - GitHub ... An attempt to build a working, locally-running cheap version
Researchers at Google and Stanford used ChatGPT to generate human-like characters who live and interact in a contained, video game-like world called Smallville. Smallville features 25 characters with preloaded personas who wake up, go to sleep, make breakfast, interact with each other, and attend each other’s parties in an attempt to mimic human behavior as closely as possible. One popular AI observer likened the experiment to an early version of Westworld, though it's more like a video game demo where the characters' actions and dialogue are autogenerated by AI. - Google Tells AI Agents to Behave Like 'Believable Humans' to Create 'Artificial Society' | Chloe Xiang - Vice
Somnium Space
Somnium Space is a virtual reality metaverse and blockchain-based virtual world that allows users to create, own, and interact with digital assets and environments. Users, known as "citizens," can explore vast and immersive landscapes, build and customize their own virtual properties, and engage in social activities, including events, art exhibitions, and virtual commerce. One of its distinguishing features is its integration of blockchain technology, which enables users to truly own and trade digital assets like virtual land parcels and unique virtual items, adding a layer of digital ownership and scarcity to the virtual experience. Somnium Space aims to be a pioneering platform in the emerging metaverse space, where users can live, work, and play in a decentralized and interconnected virtual universe. Funded by the serial entrepreneur Artur Sychov, the project started with a very successful indiegogo campaign back in the day. Based in the beautiful city of Prague, right in the heart of Europe.
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Decentraland
The project started with Esteban Ordano and Ari Merlich, both very experienced folks on Blockchain and high end technology and did a very successful job creating and pushing the idea. Now the project is managed by the Decentraland Foundation, a new entity that is focused on listening to the community needs. Most of the team is in Argentina.
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The Sandbox
The Sandbox project was initially started in 2012 on mobile platforms which to date have gathered more than 40 million global installs on mobile devices. Their 100-people strong team behind has over 15 years of experience making games. Over the past 3 years, The Sandbox team has been developing a new version of the game – this time as a 3D, multiplayer platform using Blockchain technology (Ethereum) to offer a virtual world where players can build, own, and monetize their gaming experiences. This is the version we are comparing today.
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CryptoVoxels
By the one and only Ben Nolan. This solo entrepreneur from New Zealand started off the project from scratch and now has a team helping him to generate his vision. They are very active listeners on their Discord and Twitter.
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Upland
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Games - Metaverse
- Gaming ... Game-Based Learning (GBL) ... Security ... Generative AI ... Games - Metaverse ... Quantum ... Game Theory ... Design
Fortnite | Epic Games
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- Crypto Metaverse
- Python ... GenAI w/ Python ... JavaScript ... GenAI w/ JavaScript ... TensorFlow ... PyTorch
- Development ...AI Pair Programming Tools ... Analytics ... Visualization ... Diagrams for Business Analysis
- Conversational AI ... ChatGPT | OpenAI ... Bing/Copilot | Microsoft ... Gemini | Google ... Claude | Anthropic ... Perplexity ... You ... phind ... Ernie | Baidu
- Fortnite now has its own Cryptocurrency 'Fortnite Coins' that can be converted into V-Bucks | Michael A Daugherty - Sportskeeda
- Silicon Valley is racing to build the next version of the Internet. Fortnite might get there first | Gene Park | The Washington Post
- ‘Fortnite’ Is Building The Metaverse Whether You Realize It Or Not | Paul Tassi - Forbes
- ‘Fortnite’ Party Royale Will Become ‘Second Life’ On Its Way To Being The Metaverse | Paul Tassi - Forbes
- ‘Fortnite’ eyed as ‘first credible metaverse’ with its ‘hybrid’ platform | Justine Uy - Micky
Epic considered they were trying to build a toolkit for players to interact with as to create emergent gameplay solutions based on the situation of the missions, from which they can continue to expand upon with new items throughout the life of the game.
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Flight Simulator 2020
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- Microsoft Flight Simulator returns as a mind-blowing next-generation cloud showcase Microsoft Flight Simulator looks to disrupt the genre with cloud-backed gameplay on a global scale. | Matt Brown - Windows Central
- Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator is a beautiful work in progress | Frederic Lardinois - TechCrunch
Microsoft Flight Simulator has an important role to fulfill as a serious tool for the real-life aviation industry – but that doesn’t mean it can’t find time to dazzle gamers, too. The technology that makes Microsoft Flight Simulator tick is something truly special. A mash up of Microsoft’s map data from its Bing search engine, artificial intelligence and cloud computing, the result is simple: this game’s ‘map’ is the whole world. ...hile there are bugs and mistakes created by the AI that fills in the details, its hyper-accurate version of the world is stunning. ...This means that while your house might not have the exact right shape, it will be there – represented by an AI-generated approximation. This means up-close and personal things might not be exactly accurate – but bigger buildings are more likely to be closer to reality. The AI will also fill in details like trees and determine what is liquid, adding foliage and telling the game where to place its realistic water to create rivers, ponds and the ocean. Once you’re in the skies and gain a proper altitude, the less-accurate elements of the AI’s work disappear from view Microsoft Flight Simulator is nothing short of astounding | Alex Donaldson VG 24/7
Flight Simulator will populate the world with animals and roads with vehicles, water will flow realistically based on wind direction, grass will have individual grass blades and trees will have individual leaves, creating the illusion of a living world. The game world will include over two million cities and towns, 1.5 billion buildings, 2 trillion trees, and 37,000 real-world airports. Wikipedia
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Massively Multiplayer Online MMO
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Sinespace | Sine Wave Entertainment
a free-to-play massively multiplayer online Unity 3D-based platform that enables users to create and sell 3D content and interact with others as 3D avatars. Wikipedia
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Collaboration Platforms
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Meta | Facebook
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- Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)
- Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) Really Is Building The Metaverse | Mark Wilson - Fast Company
The metaverse is the next evolution of social connection. Our company’s vision is to help bring the metaverse to life, so we are changing our name to reflect our commitment to this future. Meta
Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) has rebranded itself as Meta, banking on the metaverse becoming a significant part of our lives. Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) bets its future on the metaverse | Mikguel Macias & Conner Donevan - NPR
Kodak Avatars
Kodak avatars are photorealistic 3D avatars with spatial audio. They can be used for authentic face-to-face communication in virtual or augmented reality. In a recent conversation, Mark Zuckerberg and Lux Friedman discussed the technology that allows them to appear as Kodak avatars. Kodak avatars are real-time representations that match the appearance of their users. Facebook first announced Codec Avatars in 2019. Meta researchers have revealed that photorealistic avatars can be generated with just an iPhone. You can create your own avatar and get items on Meta Quest. To do this, you can:
- Put on your Meta Quest headset.
- Select your profile picture from the navigation menu.
- Select Edit Avatar.
- Select Store.
Horizon Workrooms
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- Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)'s Horizon Workrooms
- Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)'s Oculus Quest
- Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) Paves Way to Metaverse With VR Tools for Home, Work | Naomi Nix & Mark Bergen - Bloomberg
Getting on the same page starts with getting in the same (virtual) room. A new way for office workers to connect using virtual reality; as digital avatars of their real selves, around a conference table together. Horizon Workrooms is the VR workspace for teams to connect, collaborate and create. Meet teammates across the table, even if you’re across the world—and transform your home office into your favorite remote meeting room.
- Bring your physical computer, keyboard* and desk into VR with you. You can share your screen, send messages, and type naturally.
- Seamlessly write and draw on the shared whiteboard by flipping your controller to use it like a pen.
- With spatial audio, add dimension to every conversation and create the feeling of a shared location.
- Stay synced in and out of VR with chats, calendars and notes that automatically update via web.
- Customize your avatar to be a true expression of your personality.
- Adjust the layout to fit your agenda, from presentations to brainstorms. As participants come and go, your table dynamically scales.
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Spatial
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Microsoft Mesh
Youtube search... ...Google search
Connect with new depth and dimension. Engage with eye contact, facial expressions, and gestures. Your personality shines as technology fades away.
- Colleagues – working time zones apart – come together digitally. Their common understanding helps them review data faster and arrive at more informed decisions.
- Train together anywhere - co-workers duplicate the serendipity of in-person learning – without the time and cost of travel – thanks to holoportation, holographic sharing, and visualization.
- Get remote expertise - specialists can see others’ perspectives and overlay contextual data to ensure shared understanding. It’s a better way to solve problems and make decisions together.
- Design together in 3D - team members’ ideas and creativity flourish as they participate in design reviews using several devices. Whether physically present, or holoported, colleagues can collaborate on content in real-time.
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Breakroom | Sine Space
3D social hub for remote teams who want an online, immersive space to meet, team build, organize events, and host meetings. Breakroom allows you to host meetings and have conversations in virtual environments, with several eye-pleasing spaces to choose from. You can showcase presentations in Breakroom, as well as creating a custom virtual workplace that features your company’s branding. You can showcase presentations in Breakroom, as well as creating a custom virtual workplace that features your company’s branding. Sine Wave Entertainment claims it can have your virtual office up and running within a week.
The official announcement mentions that Breakroom “combines video conferencing, meeting rooms, casual games, live events, and multi-player hangouts.
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Virtual Conferences - Virtual & Immersive Platforms for Events
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Consciousness
Consciousness at its simplest is "sentience or awareness of internal or external existence". Despite centuries of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being "at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives". Perhaps the only widely agreed notion about the topic is the intuition that it exists. Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied and explained as consciousness. Sometimes it is synonymous with 'the mind', other times just an aspect of mind. In the past it was one's "inner life", the world of introspection, of private thought, imagination and volition. Today, with modern research into the brain it often includes any kind of experience, cognition, feeling or perception. It may be 'awareness', or 'awareness of awareness', or self-awareness. There might be different levels or orders of consciousness, or different kinds of consciousness, or just one kind with different features. Other questions include whether only humans are conscious or all animals or even the whole universe. The disparate range of research, notions and speculations raises doubts whether the right questions are being asked. Examples of the range of descriptions, definitions or explanations are: simple wakefulness, one's sense of selfhood or soul explored by "looking within"; being a metaphorical "stream" of contents, or being a mental state, mental event or mental process of the brain; having phanera or qualia and subjectivity; being the 'something that it is like' to 'have' or 'be' it; being the "inner theatre" or the executive control system of the mind. Wikipedia
