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MAA Ad of the Week: IKEA’s rescue bid for Oxford Circus

August 26, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.moreaboutadvertising.com/2023/08/maa-ad-of-the-week-ikeas-rescue-bid-for-oxford-circus My grandad was a miner. Thatcher’s enemy within. Years after the strike he took me around a theme park that had opened at his old pit. He pointed out the mistakes and told me stories. He laughed as he remembered but there was a melancholy, an anger there. I thought of that day as … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: experiential, metaverse, retail

The Mingling

August 13, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.monbiot.com/2023/08/11/the-mingling/ They’d noticed a change. Not just the usual pre-teen moods and movements but something deeper, more fundamental. The word “anxious” didn’t really cover it. It was a power full mixture of fear and anger. The last holiday had made it worse. The walks without swimming along the river, the night time strolls under starless, … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: Environment, family, metaverse, virtual reality

Sony’s Mocopi system is bringing affordable motion tracking to the US

July 2, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23780187/sony-mocopi-motion-capture-vr-avatar-us-price-release You try walking with a book balanced on your head. It’s not easy. And you feel stupid. And then there’s the picking things up and putting them down again. Again and again and again. Until you get it “right”. And that’s the point, apparently. There is a “right” way do things. If you’re going … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: avatars, gaming, metaverse

Metaverse recreation of sinking country Tuvalu wins Titanium Grand Prix at Cannes

June 26, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/metaverse-recreation-sinking-country-tuvalu-wins-titanium-grand-prix-cannes/1827540 She’d been working there for years when the museum began work. She refused to say “in the community”. She thought it made her sound at best like a visitor and at worse like a colonialist. She’d got to know the knitting ladies and the kids that played on the patch of green in the … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: heritage, metaverse

Hands on With Apple’s Vision Pro: The Opposite of Disappearing

June 6, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-vision-pro-hands-on-demo/ I love them. I still call them films but they’re called “immersives”. Ugh! When my parents were my age, I remember them flicking through their memories on their phone. It’s lovely stepping back into my life: childhood birthday parties and holidays. Family events. There’s no doubt, you’re there. The colours and of course the … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: family, metaverse, virtual reality

The Problem With Counterfeit People

May 30, 2023 by What if..?

From The Atlantic: “Companies using AI to generate fake people are committing an immoral act of vandalism, and should be held liable.” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/problem-counterfeit-people/674075/ He’s due to speak tonight. But not if I have anything to do with it. I’m all for free speech but there are limits. He can say what he likes in his … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: activism, free speech, metaverse

Police near Seattle issue warning about AI phone scammers impersonating family members

May 22, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.geekwire.com/2023/police-near-seattle-issue-warning-about-ai-phone-scammers-impersonating-family-members/ He’s a good boy. My friend was complaining about her son the other day, I didn’t say anything. Well, OK, maybe just a little something. What can I say? He’s a good boy. He’s busy. So successful. Oh the stories he tells! I told my friend where he was yesterday. So proud. But he’s … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: artificial intelligence, family, metaverse

Virtual Reality System Lets You Stop and Smell the Roses

May 10, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/virtual-reality-system-lets-you-stop-and-smell-the-roses/ The shop began to open out. The sky stretched over her head and, as the walls dissolved, the fields spread out below her bare feet. She heard a brook behind her and the sound of her favourite Swallows on her right. She recognised the spot from her feed last spring. It wasn’t a direct … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: metaverse, retail, sensory, virtual reality

RIP Metaverse

May 9, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5?r=US&IR=T The streets were deserted. The beautiful shops empty. The fantastic buildings stood as hollow monuments. It was a ghost town, a ghost world. Sometimes disaster tourists would come, scavenging for souvenirs or memories and occasionally there was a flash of life as someone, often accidentally, visited; their meta-GPS taking them down a dead alley. … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: artificial intelligence, metaverse

Epic’s hyperrealistic MetaHumans can soon be animated using an iPhone

March 27, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23648834/metahuman-animation-epic-state-of-unreal-gdc-2023 He sat still. Very still. As still as he could. Conscious, so conscious of every move. He knew he was being watched. Play it right, there might be a promotion, play it wrong and… He’d prepared the presentation and his answers to the questions his partner had predicted. He just had to hold it… … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: future of work, metaverse
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