Extended Reality
The realm of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (XR) is pulsing with fresh innovations and announcements.
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Dimensions Of Authenticity, A Diet Of Darkness, RIP The Metaverse Or Not?
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Endless Media, Raige-Baiting, Lensa Goes NSFW, Life-Wrecking Deepfakes, Dramatron, Instagram Trend Report, The College Essay Is Dead, Creative AI and ChatGPT
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Building Communities, Token-Gating, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, Our Virtual Lives Are Real Lives and The Avatar Economy
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YouTube Culture & Trends Report 2022, Can Virtual Reality Help Ease Chronic Pain and Are We Post-Platform?
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TikTok Killed The Video Star, How TikTok Is Changing Marketing In The Music Industry And Beyond, The Rise of the Internet's Creative Middle Class and Value Creation in the Metaverse
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Sentient AI, Luxury 3.0, TikTok Avatars, DALL-E, Barbie Enters The Metaverse and Johnny Depp Has Become a Full-Circle Meme
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Airbnb’s Design To Live And Work Anywhere, BAYC's Otherside Is Here, NFT Use Cases 2022, Gen Z Does Not Dream Of Labor and Snapchat’s Flying Camera
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Who Is Behind QAnon and GoldMan Sachs and J.P. Morgan Have A Vision About The Metaverse
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Erin Griffith, a tech journalist, coined the term “The YOLO FOMO LOL Economy” in two of her articles. We think it perfectly describes today’s meme society. In this #10 issue you will probably experience some fear of missing out yourself.
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Researchers have shown that deepfake technology can be used to manipulate satellite imagery to produce real-looking — but totally fake — overhead maps of cities.
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the ones that are focused on implementing automation because they want to make their employees empowered are the ones that succeed.
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It’s the digital reincarnation of Albert Einstein, who you can ask all kinds of scientific questions.
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It’s a long newsletter this time. A lot of things have happened last week. From monkeys playing video games with their mind, to Paris Hilton promoting NFT’s, to congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez performing sexual acts in deepfake videos.
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Today's launch our new report on machine intelligence "The Frankenstein Factor". It's an anatomy of fear of artificial intelligence.
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Sometimes the Internet makes you feel like a boomer. Why should you buy virtual clothes for your avatar?
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Tragically we often discover weeks or months later the vision we had of our code solving problems was never achieved.
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This week we focus on deepfake technology. For starters, the FBI warned in an alert that malicious actors “almost certainly” will be using deepfakes to advance their influence or cyber-operations in the coming weeks.
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The giant container ship Ever Given that has blocked traffic in the Suez Canal for the last week, bringing a key global trade route to a standstill and capturing the world’s attention, was partially refloated as we’re writing this newsletter.
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Playing with Reality is a weekly newsletter in which SogetiLabs’s Research Institute VINT examines the future where synthetic reality becomes part or our objective reality. The newsletter is also a preview of our upcoming book Playing with Reality. Subscribe here.
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