virtual reality

virtual reality

Evan Xie

Interest online around new AI companies, concepts and pitches remains as frothy as ever. A widely-shared thread over the weekend by Silicon Valley computer scientist Dr. Patrik Desai instructs readers to begin recording their elders, as he predicts (with 100% certainty!) that we’ll be able to map and preserve human consciousness “by the end of the year.” The tweets have over 10 million views in just three days. A new piece from the MIT Technology Review touts the ways AI apps will aid historians in understanding societies of the past. Just the other day, a Kuwait-based media company introduced an entirely-virtual news anchor named “Fedha.”

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AppliedVR

Virtual reality healthcare company AppliedVR could soon be the first company to get a VR device covered by Medicare. The Los Angeles-based health tech firm launched in 2015. Since then it has been steadily working towards making its main product, a virtual reality headset and software for managing chronic pain called RelieVRx.

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Evan Xie

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Disney CEO Bob Iger recently announced plans to lay off around 7,000 employees over the next few months, as part of a broader effort to slash costs. (Iger hopes to save $5.5 billion in total, with $3 billion of that coming from the content side of the company.) Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that some of these losses will come from the company’s “next-generation storytelling and consumer experiences unit,” including the relatively small division that was working on metaverse development and strategy.

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