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Article "Epic CEO mocks ‘metaverse is dead’ notion — 600M coming to the ‘wake’"
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney made fun of a recent Business Insider article suggesting the metaverse had run its course.

by Felix Ng
May 10, 2023

Article "The metaverse isn't dead, says the billionaire CEO behind Fortnite— and he's jokingly trying to hold a wake so 600 million gamers can mourn its passing in 'real-time 3D'"

by Huileng Tan
May 10, 2023

 

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Article "Facebook pivoted to the metaverse. Now it wants to show off its AI."
Meta released new generative AI advertising tools, as its competitors push forward with bolder products

by Naomi Nix
May 14, 2023

 

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Article "Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision is over. Can Apple save it?"

by Alex Hern
May 21, 2023

 

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Article "Metaverse Meltdown: Virtual Land Prices Hit a Rough Patch"

by Vineet
May 29, 2023

 

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Article "Don’t Count the Metaverse Out"
Generative AI may be just what virtual worlds need to flourish.

by Brittan Heller
May 30, 2023

 

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Article "This is why Mark Zuckerberg won't give up on the Metaverse, and why Apple is about to dive into the technology"

by Alistair Barr
June 2, 2023

 

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Article "You're wrong Zuck — the metaverse really is just sitting alone on a couch"

by Hasan Chowdhury
June 10, 2023

 

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Article "Metaverse Investing Has Slowed. Can Apple Save It?"

by Chris Metinko
June 15, 2023

 

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Article "Interfaces in new places: Spatial computing and the industrial metaverse"
As the industrial metaverse transforms to enterprise tool, spatial technologies are taking hold in industrial applications, using data and AI to replicate real-life processes.

by Mike Bechtel and Bill Briggs

 

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Article "The metaverse isn’t dead (in fact its future in enterprise is promising)"

by Taryn Plumb
December 27, 2023

 

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Article "Practical Magic: VR and AR Are the Next Big Thing… Again"
In 2024, what was once called the metaverse will now be searching for function. Bigger players like Apple, Samsung and Google could make that happen faster.

by Scott Stein
January 4, 2024

 

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Article "China convenes Huawei, Tencent, Baidu to draft metaverse standards in bid to become global technology leader"
The working group consists of 60 experts, including those from the private sector as well as government officials and academic researchers
The group is tasked with building, maintaining and promoting metaverse industry standards, China’s technology regulator says

by Coco Feng
January 20, 2024

 

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Book "Once Upon Tomorrow: Harnessing the New Opportunities the Metaverse Creates", Shurick Agapitov, 2024

 

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Article "Where Will Virtual Reality Take Us?"
Apple’s Vision Pro headset suggests one possible future—but there are others.

by Jaron Lanier
February 2, 2024

 

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Article "The Algorithmic Apocalypse"
There's no reason to be scared of AI making decisions for you in the future — computers already control your life

by Ed Zitron
April 2, 2024

 

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roganproductions.co.uk/project/zuckerberg-king-of-the-metaverse

"Zuckerberg: King of the Metaverse", biography documentary film, 2024, United Kingdom on IMDb

Playlist "Zuckerberg: King of the Metaverse"

Article "Zuckerberg: King of the Metaverse review – it will make you even more terrified of the internet"

by Lucy Mangan
January 12, 2024

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

 

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Generative World Explorer

Nov 20, 2024

generative-world-explorer.github.io

"Generative World Explorer"

Taiming Lu, Tianmin Shu, Alan Yuille, Daniel Khashabi, Jieneng Chen
November 18, 2024

Planning with partial observation is a central challenge in embodied AI. A majority of prior works have tackled this challenge by developing agents that physically explore their environment to update their beliefs about the world this http URL contrast, humans can imagine unseen parts of the world through a mental exploration and revise their beliefs with imagined observations. Such updated beliefs can allow them to make more informed decisions, without necessitating the physical exploration of the world at all times. To achieve this human-like ability, we introduce the Generative World Explorer (Genex), an egocentric world exploration framework that allows an agent to mentally explore a large-scale 3D world (e.g., urban scenes) and acquire imagined observations to update its belief. This updated belief will then help the agent to make a more informed decision at the current step. To train Genex, we create a synthetic urban scene dataset, Genex-DB. Our experimental results demonstrate that (1) Genex can generate high-quality and consistent observations during long-horizon exploration of a large virtual physical world and (2) the beliefs updated with the generated observations can inform an existing decision-making model (e.g., an LLM agent) to make better plans.

 

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Article "Why the metaverse isn’t ready to be the future of work just yet"

by Victoria (Vicky) McArthur and Robert J. Teather
November 12, 2024

 

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Article "Models that understand the physical world are AI's next big wave"

by Ina Fried
September 16, 2025

 

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"From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI’s Next Frontier"

by Fei-Fei Li
November 10, 2025