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Startup opportunities in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

In general, we like to divide the metaverse into two broad categories: Closed metaverse: these are the walled, centralized, gardens such as Roblox, Fortnite, or MetaQuest. We look at both metaverse categories and believe that both will have a place in our digital world. An interesting case is Minecraft. Community driven Economies.

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The State of Gaming in 2022

VC Cafe

There are numerous publications, reports and newsletters filled with content on gaming, so it would be hard to do the category justice by reducing it to five links, in this post I tried to break down the category trends as we all deal with information overload. Mobile gaming is by far the most dominant category. There are 3.07

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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

billion valuation) to invest in the Metaverse and build the future of digital entertainment Epic owns Fortnite, one of the most popular multiplayer games, enabling users to interact with each other online in an immersive way to play, socialise, attend to virtual concerts. In the gaming category Microsoft is a power house.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

The ‘Just Chatting’ category remains the most popular on Twitch, and lockdown measures led to concerts, political events, as well as live shows all being hosted on the platform. Virtual Worlds and the Metaverse. billion hours were watched on Twitch in December 2020 alone (17B total in 2020, oor 83% growth YoY).

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The State of Creative Automation

VC Cafe

In this post I cover a non-exhaustive list of content categories that are being re-invented with AI. A video generated by HourOne for Berlitz using virtual characters to teach languages. My virtual synthetic music studio, by Amper. Promethean – uses AI to fill virtual worlds with trees, rocks, etc.

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Five Categories with Corona Tailwinds

View from Seed

Here are some of my predictions on how this pandemic might impact businesses and accelerate category growth in the short- and long-run: Online learning programs will accelerate. We have now shifted to virtual classes through Zoom until the end of the semester. Harvard hasn’t taken measures like these since World War II.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

For images a rule of thumb is that a machine learning algorithm needs at least 5,000 labeled examples of each category in order to produce an AI model with decent performance.) virtual worlds, gaming, fashion? Cost and speed make it virtually impossible to develop and deploy cutting-edge AI algorithms without state-of-the-art AI chips.