Notes from my opening comments at a recent Metaverse working group meeting — Thoughts on minimal requirements for building a sustainable ecosystem of value creation in any prospective ‘Metaverse’, with examples from Second Life and other worlds: Creative Building Blocks The world must have some sort of building blocks that are sufficient to enable people to create interesting things that will be of value to others…

Where are our consumer lifestyle XR glasses? — I’ve been working on aspects of XR, the Metaverse, and Spatial Computing for over 30 years, including helping or advising about ten different XR headset projects. I’ve been lucky to contribute to plans early on, most often by proving or disproving requirements and by defining key user experiences, before anyone…

Update August 2022 — the hottest new algorithm on the AI Art scene is Stable Diffusion. Click here to read my Stable Diffusion tutorial. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use the state-of-the-art in AI image generation technology — VQGAN and CLIP — to create unique, interesting and…

Society is what Deleuze and Guattari would describe as a striated space, and social networks can’t live there. An striated space is heterogeneous: to move a person or a message across it you have to continuously modify and adjust them, with every interaction being highly contextual, and every long-distance movement…

The beginning of open-ended AI — After building impressive models in language processing (GPT-3) and text-to-image generation (DALL·E 2), OpenAI is now facing an arguably greater challenge: open-ended action. In the great task of solving so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI), they realize language and vision aren’t the only domains in which AI should excel. …