Meta wants 47.5% of Metaverse sales of virtual experiences and assets in Horizon Worlds. For those working in AR/VR it amounts to a war on developers.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Latest VR news on hardware, experiences, haptics, games, and the Metaverse, with unbiased analysis of XR developments impacting education and society.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Facebook is Meta, a name change and shift in focus for the social media giant that holds both promise and peril for the future of virtual reality.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Microsoft closing AltspaceVR offers a reality check for the Metaverse hype and the profound challenges of monetization and interoperability.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Support our SXSWedu 2024 Proposal: "The Creative Frontier: AI & the Making of Immersive Reality" which explores how immersive storytelling can be a catalyst for humanizing AI.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Our road to the Metaverse took another hit as Meta cancels the Quest Pro, stops work on the Pro 2, and scales back their AR Glasses.| Digital Bodies Consulting
The Valve Index gains in the latest SteamVR survey. But the 2021 VR market may be ready for upheaval with new headsets and Facebook's woes.| Digital Bodies Consulting
The groundbreaking HBO Film "We Met in Virtual Reality" explores life, love, and intimacy in VRChat as the future Metaverse begins to transform relationships.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Speculations on how our Future will be transformed by AR, VR, and AI and developments that are raising profound questions on what it means to be human| Digital Bodies Consulting
Dreamscape Immersive, which combines cutting-edge VR with storytelling, opens its latest immersive virtual reality location in NJ| Digital Bodies Consulting
Digital Bodies offers news and analysis of AR, VR, AI, the Metaverse and how these developments are transforming the future of learning, work, and entertainment. We offer education consulting services, Augmented and Virtual Reality workshops, and keynote talks on emerging technologies and future ethical challenges.| Digital Bodies Consulting
The Hollywood Writers Strike is not only a fight over wage issues and residual payments, it's a battle over the role of AI and creativity.| Digital Bodies Consulting
We offer consulting services and professional development on AR, VR, XR, and the Metaverse for education, nonprofits, NGOs, and businesses.| Digital Bodies Consulting
With ChatGPT rapidly gaining in popularity, AI experts, the EU, and the G7 are calling for guidelines and regulations to manage its impact on society.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Will ChatGPT and AI replace our jobs? It's too early for studies, but jobs in marketing, sales, software, and education could vanish in the near future.| Digital Bodies Consulting
GPT-5’s launch brings faster reasoning and new AI personas—hailed as a breakthrough, criticized as a step back, and set to disrupt education and policy.| Digital Bodies Consulting
This industry talk at SXSWedu explores the latest trends and signature immersive projects in VR and AR in education. The next wave of immersive computing offers low-cost, self-contained headsets, higher levels of interaction and the possibility of deeply social experiences.| Digital Bodies Consulting
News and analysis of developments in Virtual Reality and consumer VR that are transforming education and society and will raise challenging ethical issues.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Polish radio’s AI presenter experiment sparks public outcry, raising questions on AI’s role in media and how far we’ll go in replacing human interaction.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Support our SXSWedu and SXSW Interactive proposals for next year's SXSW 2025 conference. Voting ends midnight, August 18th on the SXSW Panel Picker.| Digital Bodies Consulting
OpenAI's reasserted its dominance of the crowded AI space with a faster and cheaper AI model, GPT-4o, with remarkable voice capabilities.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Scarlett Johansson was shocked by OpenAI's use of a voice that sounded like her character in the sci-fi movie Her, revealing the ethical issues we face with AI.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Explore Meta Connect 2024's key news and VR headset developments in AI, AR, and VR as Meta shifts beyond the metaverse.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Higher Education and AI policy changes under Trump - a shift in regulations will bring new ethical challenges and opportunities for innovation| Digital Bodies Consulting
A landmark copyright case takes another step forward for artists, potentially impacting creatives and reshaping the future of art and AI.| Digital Bodies Consulting
News and analysis of Art leveraging XR developments to reach new audiences in public spaces and empower new forms of artistic creativity in art and film.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Apple AI announcements at WWDC 2024 offered a mix of cutting-edge features, a commitment to user privacy, and a limited embrace of Generative AI| Digital Bodies Consulting
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns AI could erase half of entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to 20% within five years.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Can an AI bot serve as mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming? We may find out in the next election if generative AI can upend politics and governance.| Digital Bodies Consulting
The convergence of AI with XR and generative AI developments, such as ChatGPT, is transforming our lives and creating profound ethical challenges.| Digital Bodies Consulting
AI in 2025 isn’t evolution—it’s disruption. Seven breakthroughs, from agents to wearables, are redefining the future of work, creativity, and life.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Emory Craig is a writer, speaker, and consultant specializing in virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) with a rich background in art, new media, and higher education. A sought-after speaker at international conferences, he shares his unique insights on innovation and collaborates with universities, nonprofits, businesses, and international organizations to craft and execute transformative initiatives in the realms of extended reality (XR), AI, and digital ethics. Passionate ab...| Digital Bodies Consulting
The chaos at OpenAI continues with the staff threatening to resign and Ilya Sutskever regretting his role in terminating Sam Altman.| Digital Bodies Consulting
OpenAI announcements at DevDay, including a turbocharged GPT-4, open a world of possibilities and challenges for enterprise and education.| Digital Bodies Consulting
Join us on November 6, 2023 at 10:00 AM PT for the live stream of the OpenAI DevDay event for the latest groundbreaking AI developments.| Digital Bodies Consulting
President Biden's new Executive Order on AI addresses many AI regulatory issues but leaves aside the impact of AI on the general public.| Digital Bodies Consulting
