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The Immersive Wire - 8 January 2024 (Monday Briefing)
Tom Ffiske
January 08, 2024
Executive summary
Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week:
Headline: Elvis Presley is coming back with the help of holographic projections, AI and augmented reality.
Article: I wrote about how publications need to be careful about how they report on metaverse crimes (Analysis below).
Conversation-starter: A 17-year-old had their brain tumour removed with the help of AR.
Candidates board: Seven new additions to the candidates board, all looking for new roles.
Other stories: XREAL shipped 350,000 AR glasses, Visa now offers web3 wallets for its loyalty programme, and Qualcomm announced its next XR chip (more stories below).
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I visited the Freud museum in Vienna, and they offered a coffee at the cafe called the “Freudian Sip.”
Analysis
The British Police probed into a first-of-its-kind crime committed in a virtual world.
What happened? What followed was an influx of articles across the UK which tapped into the story and dissected it into chunks of newsworthy bites, from the overstretched police force to the validity of metaverse-related crimes.
Why am I worried? I believe we can be better when reporting on new cases like these over time. The fact we are questioning the validity of metaverse crimes at all is something we should move on from. It also risks trivialising what happens to victims who experience pain. I want it to be considered with the due course it deserves, and I believe the media have a role to play here.
What do you think? Vote in the poll below, with results shown next week.
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Other notable stories
Got any stories? Let me know at tom (at) immersivewire (dot) com.
Federal Aviation Administration approved the use of VR headsets for pilots.
Futureverse launched Readyverse Studios, to be a metaverse destination for brands.
The company is already working with Ready Player One as an IP.
Orbbec announced the launch of the Gemini 2 XL, a long-range 3D camera.
Qualcomm announced its next XR chip.
The company promises up to a 4.3K resolution per eye, 90fps, 2.5x GPU performance increase, and 8x better AI performance.
Visa now offers web3 wallets for its loyalty programme.
How do you get web3 adoption? Step one: Have 4.3bn people who already use your infrastructure. Step two: Add a new service on the loyalty programme. Easy!
XREAL shipped 350,000 AR glasses.
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Note: The Immersive Wire is run by Tom Ffiske, who also works within Accenture’s metaverse group. The contents of the newsletter should not be regarded as Accenture’s views.