Robots that feel pain 🩹, autocompleting code 👩🏻💻, Ikea's new AR app 🛋, and more!
Hola! Welcome back to Augmented Rarity, #11! 💚
Can’t believe I’m being consistent on something, I guess I really like making this weekly review, so let’s begin! 👇
If you too can’t afford Prada in real life, Meta has the right solution 🛍, that you buy it for the Metaverse! Not that I’m going to spend my money on pixel luxury clothes, but I hope the outfits are nicer than the current available options.
With new Amazon’s code whisperer feature, we might finally be able to code since it autocompletes Java, JavaScript and Python functions 🤓 I will still procrastinate on coding, but hope this is useful for you at least 💜
While the VR industry is learning how to make us feel pain in VR, AI researchers are learning how to make AI feel pain 🩹 Ok I made it a bit clickbaity, the real reason behind this that robots are expensive, and a good way to make sure they don’t hurt themselves is to give them the sense of touch with an artificial skin, so they are more conscious and don’t hurt themselves.
Regarding Meta’s attempts to recreate reality, they are currently building a prototype that will make us wonder if what we are seeing is real or not so we can feel present in the metaverse 👀
Tired of spending 3h trapped in Ikea? Then no more because Ikea launched Ikea Kreativ! 🍾 (🇺🇸 residents only). An updated and improved version of it AR placement app, which tbh, looks promising. Ok maybe it’s because the Mario Party alike ad hyped me on it, but can’t wait to test it 🛋
Ok so I’m not going to extend on this one because I’m still upset at the crypto industry, but you should know that Meta is planning to build they own wallet for the metaverse 🤑
Aaaand a personal update 💁🏻♀️: I’ll be uploading a new video this evening, 18:00 CEST, a reflection on why AI will be a great tool for creatives (instead of something we should be fearing of). Depending on when are you reading this newsletter the link will work or not, but meanwhile 👇
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And this is it for today!
Hope you liked today’s selection, if so let me know in the comments and give it a like! 🙏
See you in a week 👽
Best,
Martina