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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