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Our Next Reality

How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World

Nicholas Brealey Publishing,

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Artificial intelligence and immersive technologies will transform how people live.


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Reality and the way humans perceive and interact with it is rapidly changing. How people live their daily lives, work, and understand their communities and identities is in the process of transformation. Artificial intelligence and immersive technologies, or the AI-powered metaverse, fuel this transformation, which creates a world and experience adapted to each individual. Whether this revolutionary new technology will be a positive force for human life remains an open question. The metaverse opens up new worlds for human beings, but bad actors could harness it for malign purposes.

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The future of computing will be a merger of immersive media and AI that some callthe metaverse.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and immersive technologies are transforming how human beings experience and interact with themselves and the rest of the world. This transformation occurs on many dimensions at once, including how people live their day-to-day lives, work, experience art and culture, and maintain their health. The technology underlying this transformation goes by various names, including “extended reality (XR),” “spatial computing,” “immersive media,” and, more generally, the “AI-powered metaverse.”

For the most part, people experience the digital world from outside in the third person, and in two dimensions on flat screens. The metaverse, by contrast, makes possible first-person, realistic experiences of digital content — experiences that greatly resemble how people’s brains evolved to perceive the world. The metaverse may include fully digital environments, as in “virtual reality” (VR), or realistic content alongside perceptions of the real world, as in “augmented reality” (AR) or “mixed reality” (MR). The metaverse...

About the Authors

Global VP of Corporate Development at HTC, Alvin Wang Graylin drives innovation in the AI, XR, and semiconductor industries. Dr. Louis Rosenberg is a pioneer in the fields of virtual and augmented reality, and a longtime AI researcher.


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