Huawei Vision Challenges Apple's Vision Pro, Google's Gemini Update Ignites AI Debate, and Stable Diffusion 3 Emerges as a Contender!
Plus, Sony is bringing PC gaming to VR2 and home building has never been easier with Digs.
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Top Stories
Huawei Vision is challenging Apple’s Vision Pro. Huawei Vision promises a lighter build and a lower price. Features like EyeSight are still missing and the performance might not match due to its self-developed chips.
Google to revise Gemini’s historical inaccuracy. Gemini's image generation feature paused due to complaints about historical faultiness and biases. This sparked debate on societal implications and systemic racial power imbalances in AI models.
Stable Difusion 3 comes to market to defy its competitors. Release Stable Diffusion 3, a powerful image-generating AI model that wants to compete with recent offerings from OpenAI and Google.
In Funding
Flower Labs secures $20M in funding in Series A. This investment aims to simplify solutions and enhance their open-source framework for federated and decentralized AI.
College admissions made easier with in funding $15 million. Empowerly will launch a mobile app to help with competitive college admissions and personalized counseling.
Moonshot AI secures $1B+ in Series B. The investment shows the pioneering LLM technology for advanced human-machine interaction.
Keep an eye on
Safety & Security: Meta is addressing disinformation and misuse of generative AI ahead of the European Parliament elections in June.
Entertainment: Sony testing PC VR game access for PS VR2, expanding options for players.
Training & Development: The AI collaboration platform for home builders, Digs, expands AI capabilities;
Hardware: Apple and Meta to enable Quest as an AirPlay receiver; RealWear unveils new XR headset with thermal camera for safety.
Healthcare: South Korean start-up launches XR wearable displays for surgeons and advances surgical technology.
Events to be at
March 16 - 21 Shangai, China | IEEE VR
March 18 -22 San Francisco, USA | GDC
April 3 – 4 Stuttgart, Germany | XR Expo
May 14 – 22 May Cannes, France | Cannes XR
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February 26 2024 Edition - Issue 37