Meta losing billions ๐, Google to be more inclusive ๐, Growing plants in lunar soil ๐, and more!
Yay, you made it again! ๐
This 5th week of Augmented Rarity is full of stories ๐ฝ To make sure I include them all, I changed the format this time ๐
Extended Reality ๐ฅฝ
Beginnings are hard, even for tech giants. Metaโs Reality Labs has generated $6.2 billion in losses in the last two quarters ๐ธ
Meanwhile, weโve all seen the video of Metaโs new mixed reality headset (project Cambria) ๐ถ. The blurred prototype is still far from those light portable glasses we all expect ๐
Getting a bit more present in VR because legs finally arrived to Spatial๐บ. But unless you are tracking your legs too, this wonโt make such a big difference just yet ๐
Machine Learning ๐ค
Google is releasing a more inclusive, 10 skin tone palette, to be more representative of society while training their AI systems ๐๐ช . A good start, remember when its algorithm confused people with gorillas? ๐
Robots to replace astronauts ๐ง๐ปโ๐. Maybe this way Elonโs plan to get a human to Mars in 5-10 years will make sense if he sends a humanoid instead ๐. Btw watch ๐ฟ this podcast episode if you want an update on Elonโs plans.
Metaverse ๐
While crypto is as down as in 2020, Emirates to accept BTC payments โ๏ธ and of course they are also releasing an NFT collectionโฆ
Meta will merge Horizon Venues and Horizon Worlds to bring the Metaverse closer to us thanks to portals ๐ช
Miscellaneous ๐
Growing plants in Moonโs soil ๐ฅฆ. Yes the emoji is a broccoli because it was one of the crops tested! ๐
Elon put his Twitter acquisition on hold ๐ because of large amount of fake accounts. What's new about that?
From trash to 3d printed stuff โป๏ธ. One of the main concerns when buying a 3D printer is creating more waste, so we look forward to this development ๐
Hope you liked this weekโs selection! ๐
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!) โจ
As always, see you next Sunday!
Best,
Martina