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3 Ways Generative AI Is Making Our World A Better Place

Bernard Marr

Preserving The Icelandic Language What country doesn’t love its native language? This is a particular concern for the country of Iceland. So, the government of Iceland has collaborated with OpenAI and is using the GPT-4 language model to help preserve the Icelandic language. (As

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The World’s Biggest Plant to Suck Carbon Dioxide From the Sky Is Up and Running

GizModo VR

The world’s biggest direct air capture (DAC) plant is set to come online in Iceland on Wednesday. The moment is an important one in developing new technologies to help suck carbon dioxide out of the air —but raises a whole host of questions on the future of how we’re going to put those technologies to use. Read more.

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How science fiction precedes science fact and what it means for the metaverse

Hypergrid Business

I wrote my own ViFi novel, MetaWars , in 2010 after the Icelandic ash cloud grounded flights across Europe. Anyone who spends their days working from home, on what feels like non-stop Zoom meetings or Microsoft Teams sessions, is living a type of virtual reality. I wonder if that’s the direction of travel for Microsoft.

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Future Of Work: The 4 Biggest Workplace Trends In 2023

Bernard Marr

At the same time, new technologies seem set to usher in changes to the way workers are surveilled and monitored as they go about their daily activities, either remotely or in centralized workplace environments. Nvidia is also promoting its Omniverse collaborative working tool as a metaverse platform.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

Whatever device you may choose, VR can boost your business (and you can contact us of New Technology Walkers to have help in this sense, if you want). This seemed a great program to me, an d as a VR consultant that has already developed various enterprise AR/VR solutions at New Technology Walkers , I was going to apply.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.10.27): Quest sales are not taking off, Minecraft Earth launches in Early Access and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft wants to play safe, though, so it is now launching it only in two small countries , so that to identify possible problems only in a small subset of the worldwide population before the big launch. The two lucky countries are New Zealand and Iceland. Microsoft details 3 interesting R&D projects.