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Abdo El Ali
@abdoelali
Replying to
@abdoelali
Mel Slater (
@melslater
) gave a wonderful talk (thank you!) “Meet yourself and celebrities in VR”, running through past ~30 years of shared VR, showing powerful examples of how co-presence (& self-presence) can create novel (& sometimes highly emotional) social experiences. 3/4
Mel talking about components of presence and co-presence
Mel talking about lessons learned for shared VR experiences
Mel showing the VR discussion with David Chalmers where Einstein (GPT-3 powered avatar) joins the discussion
Mel provides insightful conclusions on co-presence and self-presence in (shared) VR
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Abdo El Ali
@abdoelali
Simultaneously loved and hated the Quantum Bar (quantumbar.ai) by
@XaosPrincess
. GPT-3 can perhaps make great conversation, but with response latency, calling me Jake 🙉, and NO action coupling, the drink I repeatedly requested never got made. No +ve sentiment! 🙃 /end
Printed out card from my experience with the Quantum Bar 😆. No my name is not Jake, and yes I had a not so great time!
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