 Hungary-based Next Earth, the world's largest Metaverse with the most landowners, has launched Next Earth AI Labs, a new AI venture studio. The first AI projects from Next Earth AI Labs are expected in Q1 2023. More: - Next Earth AI Labs seeks to develop the first generation of AI-powered applications in the Metaverse based on its Next Earth Operating System (NEOS).
- Launched in the summer of 2021, Next Earth aims to build a fair digital life in the Metaverse based on the ownership of digital identities and just wealth redistribution.
- The first AI project of Next Earth is designed to automate companies' lead generation efforts.
- Creating a decentralized ecosystem on the virtual copy of Earth, Next Earth seeks to become the gateway between Web2 and Web3 for millions of developers and companies.
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 A police instructor from the Secretary of Citizen Security participates in a virtual reality training exercise. ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP Mexico City has opened the first VR training center for police officers in Latin America at the local police academy. Secretary of Security Omar Garcia Harfuch inaugurated the VR training center equipped with "100 motion capture cameras" and different types of virtual rifles and revolvers. More: - The VR training center aims to improve police officers' performance in stressful situations.
- According to the local government, only three police units in the U.S. and the Israeli police have this VR training system.
- Harfuch was injured while two of his bodyguards were killed in an attack in June 2020, attributed to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the country's most powerful criminal gangs.
- According to the head of the Mexico City government, Claudia Sheinbaum, the new VR center saves 4M pesos in ammunition.
Zoom Out: - In May 2022, LAPD launched a VR training program for officers, with a motion capture studio in the police academy's gymnasium.
- In 2019, the EU funded a VR "Shotpros project" to improve the performance of European police officers by developing VR-enhanced training.
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 Environmental Ethics students at St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa (Feb. 21, 2023) St. Ambrose University (SAU) has partnered with VictoryXR to launch a VR/AR pilot to support the new generation of learners and strengthen student engagement. St. Ambrose, established in Davenport, Iowa, in 1882, will be the first school globally to test the launch of an entire augmented reality campus within the physical campus, according to SAU's President, Amy C. Novak Ed.D. More: - VictoryXR, a VR firm focusing on immersive classrooms and campuses, is partnering with T-Mobile and Qualcomm to build an AR campus on the actual physical SAU campus in Davenport, Iowa.
- Students will use Lenovo AR glasses for the VR/AR pilot experience.
- According to VictoryXR CEO Steven Grubb, the students will see "a world of learning that is otherwise invisible."
- SAU's Engineering department has already developed a virtual welding lab.
- Novak, SAU president, refers to the new VR/AR project as "another tool in the toolbox of high-impact learning and teaching practices."
Zoom Out: - According to a GlobeNewswire release, the global metaverse market size is projected to grow from $61.B in 2022 to $426.9B by 2027.
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National Institutes of Health awarded the Cleveland Clinic a $3.14M grant to deploy "digital twins" to tackle healthcare disparities based on someone's residence. Researchers from Cleveland Clinic and the Cleveland-based MetroHealth aim to use this information to develop strategies to reduce these health outcomes disparities. More: - The researcher will leverage digital twins built from electronic health records to analyze a registry of 250,000 patients from the health systems.
- Digital twins technology will facilitate the accurate representation of complex economic, environmental, and social aspects influencing disparities between neighboring communities.
- The team will initially build the infrastructure for "Digital Twin Neighborhoods" using data from electronic health records.
- These neighborhoods are digital replicas of real communities, which include social and geographic data, to analyze place-based health and social inequalities.
- According to Dr. Perzynski of the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI), "technology like digital twins in the research space can make it easier for organizations to take a data-backed approach to public health interventions."
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Intangles Lab Pvt. Ltd., India's fast-growing Digital Twin solutions provider, secured $10M in a Series A round from Baring Private Equity Partners India. The proceeds will serve Intangles' new customer pipeline and staffing to bolster its product engineering, sales, and delivery teams. More: - E&Y served as the exclusive financial adviser on this fundraising deal, Intangles revealed.
- According to Anup Patil, Co-founder and CEO of Intangles, the company aims to become "the Digital Twin Open-Source Software (OSS) of the world across every segment."
- Intangles has built in-house IP by leveraging its digital twin and machine learning paradigms to provide OEMs and fleet operators with predictive solutions.
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ARwayis, an AI-powered AR navigation platform, won a contract with South America's largest car rental network, with over 452 locations. ARway plans to kick off at the São Paulo airport to help passenger find their way around the airport and navigate to the rental car branch. More: - An expansion to over 450 locations is planned.
- The ARway Airport navigation is set to launch in Q2 2023, and an expansion to over 450 locations is planned.
- The ARway platform employs 3D maps of the airport and voice commands to make it more convenient than standard navigation methods.
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 |  | Vildana is a writer, activist and university lecturer. Besides English, she is also fluent in German. You can follow her on Twitter. |   | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 and 1972 Fords. | |
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