Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World

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Over the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality.

AI and immersive media will permeate society, mediating our lives by altering what we see, hear, and experience. This future will be enabled by powerful AI systems and lightweight immersive eyewear that splash digital content all over our physical surroundings, enhancing and embellishing our world. As the boundaries between the real and the virtual disappear, technology will expand what it means to be human. It will also unleash significant new risks to our privacy, autonomy, and even our identity.

Our Next Reality debates whether the new world we're creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and gives guidance on how to aim for the best future we can.

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"Our Next Reality breaks new ground by exploring both good and bad possible outcomes of widespread deployment of an AI-powered Metaverse." -- Neal Stephenson, Author and Chairman/Co-Founder, Lamina1

Author Bio

Mr. Alvin Wang Graylin is a respected tech entrepreneur and executive, who has founded four venture backed startups in the area of natural language AI search, mobile social, location-based AR services, and big data AI analytics. He's also a recognized industry leader in the immersive computing space having served as China President and Global VP of Corp Development for HTC, President of the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance, Vice-chair of the Industry of VR Alliance, Distinguished Professor of VR at the BeiHang University and is a board member of the Virtual World Society. He was born in China during the Cultural Revolution, and has spent about half his life in China and half in the U.S.

Dr. Louis Rosenberg is an early pioneer of virtual and augmented reality. His work began over thirty years ago in VR labs at Stanford University, NASA, and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) where he developed the first functional mixed reality system. In 1993 he founded the early VR company Immersion Corporation which he brought public on NASDAQ in 1999. In 2004 he founded Outland Research, an early developer of augmented reality and spatial media technology that was acquired by Google in 2011. He received his PhD from Stanford University, was a tenured professor at California State University, and has been awarded over 300 patents for VR, AR, and AI technologies. He is currently CEO of the artificial intelligence company Unanimous AI, the Chief Scientist of the Responsible Metaverse Alliance, and writes often for major publications about the dangers of emerging technologies.