The Metaverse Is Here, Now — But The Future is Even Bigger

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The concept of the Metaverse — and the associated technologies — are seeing a huge uptick in awareness, investment, and presence in “top tech trends” list, and with good reason. The Metaverse offers capabilities that transcend physical limitations and laws, and thus offers the potential for transforming how we communicate, play, work, learn, and more. […]

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Discussion of the Best Tech+Society Books of 2022

Online via zoom TX, United States

The Austin Forum online book discussions--and new activity inspired by our adoption of Zoom and desire to include anyone regardless of location--have been a big success! For this month's online discussion, instead of discussing, dissecting, and debating the societal implications of technology in one book, we'll ask everyone to share their favorite recent books on […]

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Simulation, Visualization, Digital Twins, and the (Useful) Metaverse

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Being able to simulate physical processes with high fidelity on powerful computers is important to research, design, manufacturing, and more, across fields and domains. Likewise, being able to visualize data and simulations helps us humans understand, trust, and share information and understanding. We are now seeing these methods combined, in 'digital twins,' which are models […]

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Making the Metaverse Matter

Austin Central Library 710 W. Cesar Chavez Downtown Austin, Austin, texas, Select a Country:

Metaverse is not a new concept, but it is recently generating lots of buzz as new metaverse games and applications advance in hardware capabilities and software techniques to provide superior experiences. Gaming serves as a big driver, but we are also starting to see innovative applications in education, retail, healthcare, and more. Join us for […]

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Discussion of Spatial Web: How Web 3.0 Will Connect and Transform the World

Online via zoom TX, United States

For our May online book discussion, Austin Forum Executive Director Jay Boisseau will lead us in a conversation about the book “The Spatial Web: How Web 3.0 will connect humans, machines and AI to transform the world. Authors Dan Mapes and Gabriel René dive into the world wide web’s past, present, and future in this […]

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