Meta's ambitious metaverse vision hinges on achieving key augmented and virtual reality milestones by 2025, with the company's Ray-Ban AI glasses already generating buzz as a breakthrough product that could shape the market's adoption of its AR/VR offerings.
Google unveils Beam, an AI-powered 3D video communication platform that creates lifelike remote connections, featuring volumetric video, speech translation, and enterprise partnerships for seamless global collaboration.
AI twins, virtual replicas that can communicate and solve problems, are poised to revolutionize diverse industries from real estate and law to emergency response, offering innovative solutions like improving credit scores, assisting attorneys, and guiding first responders during critical situations.
Meta unveils a new AI app to rival ChatGPT, with a social 'Discover' feed showcasing user interactions, a voice mode for natural conversation, and personalization using Facebook and Instagram data, aligning with Meta's AI and hardware roadmap including AI-powered smart glasses.
A pioneering nonprofit, Sage Future, has deployed AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic into a virtual realm, where they ingeniously raised funds for Helen Keller International's mission of providing vitamin A supplements to children, showcasing the potential and limitations of AI in charitable endeavors.
UFC and Meta have teamed up to create groundbreaking fan experiences by leveraging Meta's cutting-edge AI, VR, and social media platforms, including Meta AI glasses for immersive event experiences, and integrations across Meta Quest, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads.
The iconic Napster music sharing service from the 90s has been revived, acquired for $207 million by Infinite Reality to create immersive virtual worlds where music fans can attend concerts and listening parties together, aiming to revolutionize the streaming experience with community-driven 3D spaces.
Zoom unveils an AI assistant capable of scheduling meetings, transcribing conversations, generating documents, creating video clips, recording and summarizing in-person meetings, and providing real-time live meeting notes, with custom avatar options available for a fee.
Amazon's decision to eliminate local processing for Alexa requests on Echo devices, mandating cloud transmission of voice recordings from March 28, has sparked privacy concerns despite enabling enhanced AI capabilities through cloud computing power.
Despite the hype around AI language models like ChatGPT, the tech industry failed to deliver seamless, AI-powered virtual assistants for gadgets and apps, getting distracted by chatbots and neglecting otherwise good product innovation.