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Meta losing billions ๐Ÿ“‰, Google to be more inclusive ๐Ÿ“š, Growing plants in lunar soil ๐ŸŒ•, and more!

Martina โœจ
May 15, 2022
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Yay, you made it again! ๐Ÿ’š

This 5th week of Augmented Rarity is full of stories ๐Ÿ‘ฝ To make sure I include them all, I changed the format this time ๐Ÿ‘‡

Extended Reality ๐Ÿฅฝ

  • Beginnings are hard, even for tech giants. Metaโ€™s Reality Labs has generated $6.2 billion in losses in the last two quarters ๐Ÿ’ธ

  • Meanwhile, weโ€™ve all seen the video of Metaโ€™s new mixed reality headset (project Cambria) ๐Ÿ•ถ. The blurred prototype is still far from those light portable glasses we all expect ๐Ÿ˜…

  • Getting a bit more present in VR because legs finally arrived to Spatial๐Ÿ•บ. But unless you are tracking your legs too, this wonโ€™t make such a big difference just yet ๐Ÿ™ƒ

Machine Learning ๐Ÿค–

  • Google is releasing a more inclusive, 10 skin tone palette, to be more representative of society while training their AI systems ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ช . A good start, remember when its algorithm confused people with gorillas? ๐Ÿ˜…

  • Robots to replace astronauts ๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿš€. Maybe this way Elonโ€™s plan to get a human to Mars in 5-10 years will make sense if he sends a humanoid instead ๐Ÿš€. Btw watch ๐Ÿฟ this podcast episode if you want an update on Elonโ€™s plans.

Metaverse ๐ŸŒ

  • While crypto is as down as in 2020, Emirates to accept BTC payments โœˆ๏ธ and of course they are also releasing an NFT collectionโ€ฆ

  • Meta will merge Horizon Venues and Horizon Worlds to bring the Metaverse closer to us thanks to portals ๐Ÿšช

Miscellaneous ๐Ÿ‘€

  • Growing plants in Moonโ€™s soil ๐Ÿฅฆ. Yes the emoji is a broccoli because it was one of the crops tested! ๐Ÿ’š

  • Elon put his Twitter acquisition on hold ๐Ÿ˜… because of large amount of fake accounts. What's new about that?

  • From trash to 3d printed stuff โ™ป๏ธ. One of the main concerns when buying a 3D printer is creating more waste, so we look forward to this development ๐Ÿ™


Hope you liked this weekโ€™s selection! ๐Ÿ’œ

Let's have a discussion on these topics, so if you are up, please leave a comment (and give it a like so I know you enjoyed it!) โœจ

As always, see you next Sunday!

Best,

Martina

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