ML layoffs, Abovitz Resigns, Write downs, pivots to enterpriseĮpic valuation $17. Qualcomm Introduces XR2 for mobile headsetsĪstronomical concert in Fortnite by Travis Scott scores 47M views You can find it on podcasting platforms Spotify. Spatial - funding for remote telepresence Charlie Fink This Week in XR is now a podcast hosted by Viacom/CBS’ Futurist Ted Schilowitz and Charlie Fink, the author of this weekly column.
#CHARLIE FINK 2021 DRIVERS#
After all, who is going to ride in that flying autonomous taxi? And who is responsible for the displaced drivers it puts out of business?Ī look at some of the stories we covered in columns, by month: The unintended consequences of the tech boom, great disparities of wealth, and massive job losses due to automation, further expose technology’s uneven benefits. We need something to look forward to.Ģ020 showed us a future still arriving, and unevenly distributed. Ted Schilowitz, the Futurist at Paramount Pictures, picked Tesla (their stock is up 800% this year), self-driving cars, Project ARia from Facebook, and the AR glasses from Apple as his 2020 tech stories. And connected to mirrorworlds and the AR Cloud. I’d put Apple in the top ten also for its introduction of lidar (3D depth scans) on the new iPad. Digital twins. The long-awaited “AR Cloud.” Niantic acquired 6D.ai and is mapping the world by piggybacking on Pokemon Go. The games industry made over $120 B last year, bigger than movies, music, and streaming combined.ĥ - Mirror Worlds. Epic’s value on the public market could be as high as $60 B. And Sony’s investment in Epic Games values the maker of Fortnite at $17 B (China’s Tencent invested in 2012 and owns 50% of the company). $350 M came in to at the last minute to allow a new CEO, Peggy Johnson, from Microsoft, to focus on enterprise business.ģ - The US Army’s XR IVAS - Integrated Visual Augmentation System is using the Microsoft HoloLens to give soldiers an augmented view of the battlefield.Ĥ - Unity’s IPO. Now valued at $40 B.
A year later Magic Leap ran out of cash and laid off half the company. The first developer version was released in late 2018 to mixed reviews. Here’s what we think are the biggest XR specific stories in the last year:ġ - The successful launch of the Quest 2 by Facebook. The pandemic has been good to tech and tech stocks are partying like it’s 1999.Ģ - Magic Leap’s pivot to enterprise. Charismatic founder and CEO Rony Abovitz raised $3.4 B from Google, Disney, AT&T, Alibaba Group, JP Morgan, Kleiner Perkins, Qualcomm, and other brand name investors to make see-through AR glasses, and the content, optics, chips, and AI that go in them. If you took down the electrical grid, none of our tech would work. No one knows how deeply they went or how long they were there or if they created back doors for further intrusions.
#CHARLIE FINK 2021 SOFTWARE#
Now what’s going to happen to the malls Amazon doesn’t want as warehouses?ĥ - The hack of the century. Russian government hackers piggybacked on cybersecurity software (!!!!) to penetrate deep into hundreds of government and corporate systems.
#CHARLIE FINK 2021 MOVIE#
4 - Streaming. The end of the movie theater? Have the streaming services won? Yes.
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