AR contact lenses vs goggles 👀, AIs that draw 🖼, and more!

A very Black Mirror era

Apr 17, 2022

This week was weird af. Here you have the topics that made me reflect the most and that I think you should be aware of 🤝

Extended Reality

AR contact lenses are closer than ever 👀

🔗 Mojo Vision takes another step toward AR contact lenses with new prototype

Definitely not something I would put on now right now, but all these sci-fi books and movies have always went towards that as being the future of tech in our bodies. It is that, or brain implants 😅 (let’s talk about Neuralink another day). Would you put them on?

Mainstream AR glasses in 2024 👓

🔗 Mark Zuckerberg’s Augmented Reality

From heavy VR headsets to lightweight devices. The quest for the holy grail is leading Meta to release its AR goggles in the next couple of years. When will Apple release theirs?

Machine learning

If Dali was an AI 🖼

🔗 OpenAI's New Model is Amazing! DALL·E 2 Explained Simply

So… instead of having to be skilled at illustrating, we can just be good at words, which believe me, I’m better at. Should we worry already about AI replacing us in our creative jobs?

I joined the waitlist for its second version here.

Reanimating the dead with DeepFakes ☠️

🔗 Deepfakes Can Help Families Mourn—or Exploit Their Grief

This one can be quite controversial and creepy, but since the tech is already there and they are only taking advantage of it to sell a product, I see nothing wrong. It is weird though. What are the ethical challenges here?

Metaverse

Building the Metaverse for kids, one block at a time 🧱

🔗 Fortnite maker teams up with Lego for a kid-friendly metaverse

Just when Fortnite launches its new season with a new mode that (finally) has no construction, partners with the most friendly construction game, Lego. Will be interesting to see what these two companies can come up with into defining a safe space for the ones that will be more vulnerable to the Metaverse.

A new fashion era 👗

🔗 The Metaverse Could Radically Reshape Fashion

In a digital world where your digital identity matters as much as your physical one, digital fashion takes a big importance in your daily life. What we are seeing is just the beginning. How will web3 transform the industry?

Hope you liked this selection for our first Augmented Rarity newsletter 👽

See you again next Sunday, have a great week 💜

Thanks for reading,
Martina