MeetKai launches AI-powered metaverse, starting with a billboard in Times Square
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MeetKai is a conversational AI company that has expanded into building a real-world metaverse, starting with a billboard in Times Square.
MeetKai is accessible via virtual reality as well as any smart device, and its version of the metaverse is akin to Pokemon Go creator Niantic’s view, as it blends the real world with the virtual.
MeetKai is the brainchild of CEO James Kaplan and billionaire Weili Dai, executive chair. They spent their early years at MeetKai building foundational AI technology, and now they’re marrying it with the metaverse.
They traveled to New York this week to unveil the MeetKai metaverse, which you can access on your phone via a QR code on a billboard in Times Square. When you tap on it with your smartphone camera app, the browser app generates an animated version of Times Square where you can roam about with your avatar. You can control where your avatar goes on the phone.
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“The metaverse as we envision it is essentially mapping the real-world physical world to the AI virtual world,” Dai said in an interview with GamesBeat. “We apply AI technology and all of a sudden your experience and knowledge, anything you do, is going to be at the speed up the light. Once you have this super-fast, efficient experience where you apply what you learn to the physical world, you contribute to a better life.”
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