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Hey there, Visionaries and Innovators!
Friends of the Metaverse welcomes you to 2024's first Friday - your hotspot for the latest in tech, from mixed reality to web3, AI, and all things Metaverse.
In this week's edition, we've saved the best for last:
Top tech news roundup.
Our top picks for new AI tools.
And, our AI image highlight!
With the Metaverse set to hit $5 trillion, the future is now. Happy New Year – let's explore what's next in our inaugural issue! 🚀🌟
This issue is also brought to you by:
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📰 Weekly Top Reads on AI and the Metaverse
Biggest NFT Stories of 2023: From Bitcoin Ordinals to Blur's Surge (link)
Silicon Valley eyes reboot of Google Glass-style headsets (link)
Yes, we're already talkin' Apple Vision Pro 2 — how it's reportedly 'better' than the first (link)
China Baidu ERNIE Bot Now Ranking As The #1 Chinese AI Chatbot (link)
Baidu says its ChatGPT rival Ernie bot now has more than 100 million users (link)
Nvidia and AMD Power Chipmakers to Best Year Since 2009 (link)
Google may layoff 30,000 employees as AI improves operational efficiency: Report (link)
rabbit inc. Raises Additional $10M to Launch First AI Hardware to Replace App-based Operating Systems (link)
Samsung Places AI at Forefront as 2024 Phone Launches Kick Off (link)
NFTs are the new cookies (link)
Why Puma is sticking to its web3 bets as crypto shakes off a long winter (link)
AI Is Coming for the Influencers (link)
Cristiano Amon: generative AI is ‘evolving very, very fast’ into mobile devices (link)
Intel spins out AI software firm with backing from DigitalBridge (link)
Gangwon 2024 has launched the first ever metaverse experience for Youth Olympic fans (link)
Visa announces web3 loyalty rewards partnership with SmartMedia Technologies (link)
‘Ready Player One’ to Be Turned Into Massive Metaverse Experience in Partnership With Warner Bros. Discovery (link)
Walmart and Unity To Bring Immersive Commerce to Games, Virtual Worlds and Apps (link)
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Highlights from Season of Innovation 2023
This video showcases highlights from Season of Innovation 2023 hosted by Friends of the Metaverse. Conducted virtually on December 7th, it was the first of its kind, celebrating innovation with enterprise executives, tech trailblazers, industry veterans, and investors and more. The conference focused on the advancements of AI, mixed reality, spatial computing, web 3.0, and the metaverse.
🌟 Featured Moment: Time is Money in Gaming! ⏳🎮 Pay for every minute of play? Sounds wild, right? Our experts dive deep into this mind-boggling pricing strategy that's got gamers talking.
🚀 AI Tools (Our Top Picks)
The future of AI is here! Here are some of these amazing AI tools that are revolutionizing work and saving countless hours. Explore the amazing power of AI and discover the potential of these incredible tools.
Room Reinvented - Transform your room with AI
Script It - Integrate AI Workflows Without Any Coding
Suno AI - music tool that creates entire songs from text descriptions
Shot Solve - Instantly solve your problem with GPT-4 vision.
Numerous AI - Stop spending time on spreadsheet busywork.
Artflow - Design full-body characters with consistent appearance across different scenes.
Trellus - AI sales coach on each and every call.
HeyCloud - Cloud automation using plain English.
TerraSketcher - Transform hand-drawn sketches to professional diagrams and terraform code.
🖼️ AI Image of the Week
Prompt: Chinese ink painting, with the predominant color being Chinese red, featuring an adorable Chinese lion dance on a white background.
Image credit: zzzlll
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🎬 That’s a wrap!
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