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Weekly Recap: Is it five before Metaverse?

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A look back at the computer future: For Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the Metaverse is more a time than a place. Is Meta's timing right?

Timing is everything

Facebook: Social-VR-Welt Horizon startet in Alpha-Test
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There are many metaverse definitions. Almost all of them have to do with immersive parallel worlds in which we encounter each other as Matrix-style avatars, or which lie above reality as a digital plane, as we know them from Blade Runner, for example. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who personally put the Metaverse hype train on the rails in the fall of 2021, has another perspective: He understands the Metaverse as timing. Is his timing right for the departure?

>> The Metaverse is not a place - it's a point in time


Future of computing now!

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??‍?‍?‍? Quest multiplayer games with one account
⏩⏩ VR speed runs are impressive
??This is what the PSVR 2 looks like
??? Expedia CEO has metaverse fears

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?‍??‍? of the week: Meta's architecture for future AI

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Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun presents Meta's plans for Artificial Intelligence that will learn and think like animals and humans.

>> Meta's Yann Lecun shows the AI architecture of the future


A ?? to finish

Das Jenseits per VR-Brille erkunden? In der Amazon-Serie „Upload“ ist das möglich. Was passiert in Staffel 2?
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Explore the afterlife with VR goggles? It's possible in Amazon's brilliantly entertaining sci-fi VR series "Upload." After a long wait, the second season will start soon.

>> Upload: Ingenious VR sci-fi series finally continues

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