Amazon's new robot will study your habits 🤖✌️, smartwatches to monitor migrants in the UK 🇬🇧, my free Notion template to get better at making AI art prompts 🎨, and more! ✨

Aug 07, 2022

Welcome back to Augmented Rarity! 👽 Let’s see what we got in the AI and XR industries recently ✨

Amazon bought iRobot to see inside your home 🤖✌️. This headline was too good, a bit clickbaity but such a reality. I have nothing against Amazon, but it does provide them with a better understanding of our personal space and habits.
Every day we are getting one step closer to Black Mirror: Smartwatches could soon be used to monitor migrants in the UK 🇬🇧 from October, but don’t panic, only those who have been convicted of a crime.
If you are getting into AI art, I have something for you! I just released a free Notion template that contains 200 ideas to mix and match to help you create more descriptive prompts. In this video I give you some tips and a walk-through of the template 👇
(If you are still waiting to get invited to Dalle2, remember that you can just join MidJourney’s Discord).

Remember MetaHuman creator by Unreal? I actually made a video a year ago trying to recreate myself, which was a fail 😅because I happen to be terrible at knowing how I look 😂, but now they just made it easier because you can just import a 3D scan of yourself into MetaHuman 🦾 so you can easily import your 3D scan into AR/VR. I’ll be trying that for sure when I’m back from my holidays!
And speaking of 3D scanning, Polycam 3D Scans Preserve Ukraine’s Heritage Amidst Atrocious War 🌐. Of course this won’t make justice to what’s happening, but it’s a beautiful idea.

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See you next Sunday, have a great week!

Best,

Martina

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