Dogelon Mars and Publicis Sapient collaborate to build an AI-powered metaverse
After being largely absent from the tech headlines, the once-trendy metaverse appears to be making a comeback. Just this month, we’ve witnessed Google team up with Magic Leap to develop improved metaverse-focused augmented reality goggles, and The Sandbox raising $20 million in a strategic funding round vaulting its valuation to $1 billion. Additionally, McDonald’s Singapore just opened its metaverse called “My Happy Place”, while CitiBank recently confirmed it’s exploring ways to use the metaverse to enhance the customer experience. While the metaverse industry has likely gained more interest and funding due to the recent Web3 revival, another key factor promises to reshape virtual worlds: AI. The rapid rise of powerful AI algorithms within the blockchain and Web3 space is beginning to spread to the metaverse, revitalizing interest thanks to its ability to enhance user interactions, data processing, powerful computer vision, avatars, 3D chatbots, and more. A M...