If you attended, followed up on, and/or heard anything about Zoomtopia, you are aware that their big push is all about AI. No surprise here, as every company is currently doing an AI push. For me, this landed in my feed at the same time as the Harvard Meta AI study. All I could think […]

Meta moves to first place in video-to-text imaging with the launch of Movie Gen for AI-enabled content creators We’ve all been impressed by the very first text-to-video AI, with how AI can now use simple text inputs to transform our imaginations into a unique video. Now Meta’s Movie Gen moves the needle forward, outperforming the […]

It’s coming. Soon. Meta will bring out its XR calling service with Pixel Codec Avatars (PiCA): a deep generative model of 3D human faces. Unlike Apple’s Personas (which use front display and depth sensors), the Codec Avatars appear in 3D as full 360-degree photorealistic faces. Let’s call it a “digital twin” for your face. As […]

Last month, I wrote about the Apple Vision Pro and the particular market segment Apple was targeting with the product. The Vision Pro would most accurately be called an entertainment device at this point in its evolution. It is not a device that someone would wear all day — or out in public — for […]