Meta continues to sink billions of dollars a quarter into developing the metaverse, and is just now facing its first real competitive threat from Apple. In its fourth-quarter earnings report Thursday, …
How AI Replaced the Metaverse as Zuckerberg’s Top Priority
In the summer of 2021, during a private moment at the Allen & Co. conference in the Idaho mountains, Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai complimented Mark Zuckerberg on a technological …
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Space Force’s Vital Work on Standards for Digital Twins and Global Supply Chain Resiliency
Fast on the heels of Lisa Costa (Chief Technology and Innovation Officer of the US Space Force) taking the time to joining us at OODAcon 2023, for a discussion of The New Space Rush, following are …
The Future of the Pentagon is Digital Engineering – and Formula One Racing-style “Prowess at this New Statecraft”
Will Roper is the former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, & Logistics. He is currently on the advisory committee for the Defense Innovation Board and, since he …
The Future of War is 3D-Printed Tourniquets, Digital Twin Smart Cities, and “AI and Robotics in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response”
Personal displacement figured prominently in the OODA Almanac 2023 theme of “Jagged Transitions” - which was meant to invoke the challenges inherent in the adoption of disruptive technologies while …
OODA CTO Bob Gourley and XR Village Exec. Dir. Starr Brown on the History of XR (DEFCON31 Onsite, Saturday at 3 pm PST)
Saturday, August 12th The History of XR From Fiction to RealityBob Gourley and Starr Brown In this discussion XR village Executive Director Starr Brown interviews Bob Gourley, whose …
Meta sinks $3.7B in metaverse money pit as CEO eyes Threads user retention
Meta's metaverse-related losses topped $3.74 billion over the second quarter with the Big Tech player spending $7.7 billion on its virtual reality business so far in 2023. Its second-quarter 2023 …
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Speculative Design: “Virtual Singapore” is a Massive, Fully Functional Digital Twin of the Asian City-State
https://youtu.be/y8cXBSI6o44 The hype around the metaverse may have waned, but that does not mean it is not going to happen. The Digital Twin "market", while still nascent, is the precursor to …
Five Driving Forces in the Tech Sector and the Future of Meta
With 3 Billion Facebook users worldwide, the strategic marketing the company has ginned up about the impending arrival of the metaverse, the ongoing impact of -mis, disinformation, information …
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Meta Cuts 10,000 More Workers After Scrapping NFT Plans—Is the Metaverse Still On?
Meta’s workforce ballooned in recent years as the Facebook parent company signaled its ambitions for the metaverse—but recent moves suggest that it is feeling the sting of changing tech trends and …