Overview:
Metaverse is one of the most discussed terms these days. Some technologists call it the “next generation of the internet”. Some media organizations called 2021 the “year of metaverse”. Big tech companies are racing to stake a claim on their corner of the metaverse, further injecting vibrancy into the nascent industry. For instance, Facebook has changed its company name to Meta while GPU pioneer NVIDIA has announced its next step towards creating a metaverse.
To borrow a line from The New York Times, “Crypto people say they’re building it (metaverse). Gamers might already be living in it. The art world is cashing in on it. Web veterans are trying to save it. But what is it?”
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Emerging technologies
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Wei Sun
Wei is a senior consultant in Counterpoint specializing in Artificial Intelligence. She is also the China founder of Humanity+, an international non-profit organization which advocates the ethical use of emerging technologies. She formerly served as a product manager of Embedded Industrial PC at Advantech. Before that she was an MBA consultant to Nuance Communications where her team successfully developed and launched Nuance’s first B2C voice recognition app on iPhone (later became Siri). Wei’s early years in the industry were spent in IDC’s Massachusetts headquarters and The World Bank’s DC headquarters.
