David Metcalf

🚀 Friday Recap! 🚀 It's been another exciting week for XR technology and innovation. Here's what we've been up to and what we've seen: 🔍 Understanding ROI in XR: Check out this insightful article by MACE Virtual Labs on the ROI of XR in your business or department. Thank you for sharing this valuable information! - https://lnkd.in/e_Us8Whq 📱 Apple Vision Pro Controllers: The Vision Pro is getting motion controllers soon from a third-party creator. This is crucial for expanding content, especially in education and training. 🎮 Spatial Ops by Resolution Games: This exciting game showcases the power of Mixed Reality and its ability to interact with large environments. 🎨 Pencil by 4th Wall Breakers: A fantastic MR app on a smaller scale, demonstrating how MR could soon revolutionize art classes and other educational settings. 🚒 San Diego Fire-Rescue Department Partnership: We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with San Diego Fire! The most exciting part? We're building a collaborative community in the fire service where solutions for one department are shared with everyone, regardless of size or location. - https://lnkd.in/efpziMke Follow me (Evan Sitler-Bates) and XpertVR for more exciting news in XR! 🌟 #XR #MixedReality #Innovation #Education #Training #FireService #Collaboration #TechNews #FridayRecap

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Can XR enhance safety and compliance training? What is XR: XR (Extended Reality), is an umbrella term encompassing Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality. Using XR simulations (just like playing games on oculus headset!) offers a multitude of benefits. Especially in industries where precision and safety are paramount, XR can: 1. Improve training outcomes because personnel can actually interact spatially instead of looking at presentations and static physical models 2. Reduce costs to conduct the training… meeting physically and organization training can be a big cost - especially if done several times a year which is often the case to maintain compliance 3. Gather insights from analytics that be built into to the XR models… leading to improving the training. I have explained these and other use cases in my blog. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gX4eHC7i #XR #VirtualReality #AugmentedReality #MixedReality #SafetyTraining #ComplianceTraining #TrainingSolutions #CostReduction #TrainingEfficiency #EnterpriseXR #TechInnovation #Oculus #Analytics #CustomerService #Manufacturing #Healthcare #Pharma #Biomedical #ExtendedReality #Pixel3i #Innovation #TechTrends

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My last paper on integrating AI into art education was published, and now it's part of the University of Tampa repository (https://lnkd.in/eJjN2ec6). The abstract: Integrating OpenAI's GPT-4-Vision-Preview into media aesthetics and creativity education marks a significant paradigm shift. This exploration delineates the transformative impact of GPT-4-Vision-Preview, underscoring its implications for the Media Aesthetics and Creativity course at the University of Tampa. The advent of GPT-4 heralds a new era of interactive and creative potential in AI applications, significantly enriching the pedagogical landscape of arts and media studies.

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Exciting to see how Generative AI is expanding beyond art and creative industries! SignLLM, a project creating Sign Languages Production Large Language Models, is using automated generative AI sign avatars from Prompt2Sign datasets to assist language-impaired individuals. This innovation is revolutionizing the field of medicine and therapeutics for the hearing impaired, enhancing their everyday experiences. Moreover, this advancement enables seamless translation of sign language into standard and voice video formats. I'm proud that the University of Texas at Dallas, my old college is contributing to this impactful research. #generative #AI Check out the groundbreaking work by SignLLM here: https://signllm.github.io

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Creating a voice-activated 3D talking character in TouchDesigner + new ElevenLabs plugin 🎙���Whisper for speech-to-text 🤖ChatGPT for generating dialogue 🔊ElevenLabs for text-to-speech 🕺🏻MediaPipe for motion tracking 
The component and project file are available on my Patreon and the tutorial is available on my YouTube #elevenlabs #touchdesigner #ai #chatGPT #whisper #openai #MediaPipe #tutorial

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Assurance standards guide and reporting checklist just released for comment by the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI). The standards guide addresses five CHAI principles for trustworthy AI: (1) usefulness, usability, and efficacy; (2) fairness, equity, and bias management; (3) safety; (4) transparency and intelligibility; and (5) privacy and security. These principles are applied across each of 6 lifecycle phases: (1) define problem and plan; (2) design the AI system; (3) engineer the AI solution; (4) assess; (5) pilot; and (6) deploy and monitor. Don't skip over the definition of AI in the standards guide, as it is consistent with some others you may see but inconsistent with the OECD definition, which is gaining some traction across the standards development community. https://lnkd.in/gz8Ejpyf

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Check out the latest XReality Pro Podcast #12 episode featuring Wagner James Au, discussing his book "Making A Materverse That Matters". The topics we will discuss: 1. What's Metaverse/metaverse? 2. What are the unique challenges of design in M/m? 3. The history of M/m, what failed? What succeeded? 4. What are the M/m Economy and Monetization (Creator Economy)? 5. How is Gen Z shaping the M/m? And the transition from social media to M/m? 6. Future Direction - What's the next big trend in M/m? If you are interested in the discussion, subscribe XReality Podcast to learn more! Partner with GatherVerse. 🎥 YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g9AgBsau 🔊 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g2DNDJTg 🍎 Apple Podcast: https://lnkd.in/gtejtpz7 #metaverse #Metaverse #SecondLife #Meta #HorizonWorlds #VRChat #Roblox #CreatorEconomy #Monitization #XR #SocialMedia #Facebook #Entreprenuership #UX #GenZ

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Oculus brought XR to the mainstream. Will this headset 1. Get XR to mass adoption? 2. Bring XR further into enterprise use cases (i.e. related to Anduril Industries, Luckey's new company)? 3. Be a huge flop? What do you think? #virtualreality #xr #augmentedreality

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🚀 Exciting Developments in XR Technology! 🚀 Not having controllers is an exciting problem to solve for many XR creators. It pushes us to think beyond "which button should I use for X?" and instead, focus on the most natural way for users to interact with their hands, while ensuring the headset can recognize those movements. As XR becomes fully adopted, we won’t want to carry controllers everywhere; we'll want seamless interactions through XR glasses. However, some XR activities, like firefighter training, require controllers for interacting with various tools and providing haptic feedback. It’s thrilling to see companies working on controller solutions for Apple headsets, unlocking a new realm of XR content on the AVP. https://lnkd.in/gMXWcQHU #VRTraining #AppleVisionPro #XRDevelopment

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AI is your co-worker, but can you trust it? This issue is why I'm so excited about what Blackwire Labs is building as it is predicated on a trust layer to solve these trust and authority issues. #hackfactory https://lnkd.in/eKfHF2kA

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2024 has been a big year for highlighting the use of haptic feedback in #immersivelearning. We've discovered just how much it boosts learning retention, proving it's a must-have for technical and environmentally-focused training. Haptic feedback enhances the realism and effectiveness of VR experiences, making training sessions more impactful and engaging. If you want to enhance your VR projects with this amazing technology, check out the incredible innovations from the team at HaptX Inc. and learn from our very own Scott Stachiw on how to integrate haptic feedback into your VR projects. #VR #HapticFeedback #TechTraining #InnovativeLearning

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Waiting on a quite a few larger assignments to be graded but apparently I'm ranked #1 in Puerto Rico for the "How to Design for Augmented and Virtual Reality" by Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF). I'm laughing because I'm wondering if there were just 2 of us and my fellow classmate just became too busy to finish the course haha 🤣 . Honestly Frank Spillers' course was excellent and they achieved the challenge of sharing timeless UX design lessons in the impossibly fast environment that is XR development. Now I'm going to enjoy going down the rabbit hole that is reading all of these papers and studies referenced by Mr. Spillers. This post is mostly a vent about 2 thing things: 1. I feel like we were pushing the limits just 6-7 years ago on what XR was and how it fit into our lives. A lot has happened in the industry since then, but it's all been business related and I feel almost as if we have been keeping things a little on the safe side these past 3 years. Multiple screens in place, fancy little mechanics and integrations but... You'd be surprised at the amount of stuff being peddled as new and cutting edge these days that was already around 10-15 years ago. 2. The importance of a painless UX and trusty workflow has been emphasized by experts for so long now and yet normal VR users just accept that sometimes it takes 4 hours to troubleshoot stuff that was working last week. I was never the troubleshooting type (years ago) but now I'll sink hours on just getting normal VR stuff to work. While evaluating experiences and UI on things that make me want to cry 😂 . This is a relatively young space but it pays to look back and learn lessons from what has been done before, This is critical. Maybe the documentation hasn't been easy given the format. Ah well!~ 😅 #ux #vr #beforethemetaverse #virtualreality

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Check out the latest interesting ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) News issue with useful and concise information on cutting-edge research projects on #XR, #Metaverse and #SpatialComputing

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Sound UP: Cinematic Luma+++...

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Honored to be a part of Moonshine Design, LLC and Sarah Spoelstra's article on "Exploring the Light & Dark Side of AI" for May The Fourth. Give it a read in the comments and let her know your thoughts on the subject. How has AI affected your workflow? #AI #Artificialntelligence #DigitalMarketing #SocialMediaMarketing #ProfessionalNerd

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Blockchain interoperability can not be the responsibility of a single project, it needs to be an industry-wide effort, argues Temujin Louie. https://lnkd.in/gfXQQeVd

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The intersection of XR and AI for Health is evolving rapidly, enhancing training programs for healthcare staff. Viewport XR's solution for Western Health sets a new standard for education on handling violence towards staff. The focus on quality outcomes transforms the experience from a 'gimmick' to a valuable training resource. AI promises to take this to the next level with dynamic conversational changes bringing a realistic touch to scenarios, mirroring the complexities of the real world. #XR #AI #HealthcareTraining

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Why we need classroom educators around these tables! 💥 Of the many challenges and issues identified, none touched on the need for AI literacy or guidance at the school level, or the role of educators in general, despite recognizing their own critical need for foundational knowledge building. 💥 There was also some mention of research and workforce re/upskilling, plus a blink and you’ll miss it mention of a “public awareness and education campaign.” Amanda Bickerstaff nails it: "By neglecting the importance of AI literacy at the school level and the role of educators in general, the roadmap misses a critical opportunity to empower students with the skills and understanding necessary to navigate and shape the future of AI."

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