#futuretech
My Thoughts on.. №17: the Metaverse. I think it is a logical and inevitable progression of communication and entertainment. There are many benefits in being able to go anywhere, anytime, meeting anyone, however you please and in a much more natural manner. But somehow the biggest corporations manage to make it seem like the least appealing and most cartoony thing ever. It’s like they looked into every piece of related fiction and took only the bad aspects from those dystopias. The best thing about the metaverse will be the personal freedom it offers, whereas the corporations wish to control that as always. The difference is that they have never been so blatant about it.
Question of the week.
Do you use or have you experienced virtual reality yourself?
A 26-year-old Nigerian, credited for building the world’s first gaming robot, Silas Adekunle, has become the highest paid in the field of robotic engineering.
Adekunle achieved the feat after signing a new deal with the world’s reputable software manufacturers, Apple Inc.
The robotics engineer was also named as “Someone to Watch in 2018” by the Black Hedge Fund Group.
Adekunle is currently the founder and CEO of Reach Robotics, a company developing the world’s first gaming robots.
He also recently graduated with a first class degree and has four years’ background in robotics.
In 2017 MekaMon, he released the world’s first gaming robot, with the special ability to customise the gaming bot to perform personalised functions.
The initial launch of Mekamon sold 500 bots, generating $7.5 million.
Following this feat, he received support from various organisations including London Venture Partners ($10 million) and Reach Robotics signed a deal with Apple securing exclusive sales in Apple stores.
“Impressed by the quality of his robots and their ability to show emotion with subtly-calibrated movements, Apple priced his four-legged “battle-bots” at $300 and has put them in nearly all of its stores in the United States and Britain.
Early customers skew towards male techies but a growing number of parents are buying the robots for their children to get them interested in STEM, Adekunle told Forbes in an interview this year.
- The Guardian NG
No industry will have a bigger impact on humanity than Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Human Augmentation. When this happens we will cease to exist as we are today. Now is the time to start learning about AI and most importantly getting your kids involved. They are the ones who will have to live through this. #artificialintelligence #robotics #futuretech #humanaugmentation #ghostintheshell (at Las Vegas, Nevada)
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