"Flying Into The Metaverse Through Books & Culture" is honored to host today Alvin Wang Graylin, co-author with Louis Rosemberg of the book “Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse will Reshape the World” published by Hachette Books LI.
In Our Next Reality, two industry veterans provide a data-driven debate on whether the new world we're creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and gives guidance on how to aim for the best future we can. With a Foreword by renowned author Neal Stephenson and section contributions from industry thought-leaders such as Peter H. Diamandis, Tom Furness, Phillip Rosedale, Tony Parisi, Avi Bar Zeev and Walter Parkes, this book answers over a dozen of the most pressing questions we face as AI/VR/AR accelerates the digitization of our world. Find out why our actions in the next decade could determine the trajectory of our species for countless millennia.
More information on the book here: ournextreality.com/book
ALVIN WANG GRAYLIN (汪丛青) is a recognized technology pioneer, entrepreneur, executive, and thought leader with 30+ years of experience delivering innovative products in the AI, XR, cybersecurity and semiconductor industries. He is the co-author of "Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse will Reshape the World", published by Hachette Book Group. (...)
LOUIS ROSENBERG, PhD is an early pioneer of virtual and augmented reality and a longtime AI researcher. His work began over thirty years ago in VR labs at Stanford, NASA, and Air Force Research Laboratory where he developed the Virtual Fixtures platform, the first system enabling users to interact with a mixed reality of real and virtual objects. (...)
This interview was recorded during AWE USA 2024, at the Long Beach Convention Center in California in June 2024. These are the highlights:
0:00:00 - Opening Theme
0:00:07 - CECILIA LASCIALFARI: "Opening the interview"
0:00:17 - CECILIA LASCIALFARI: "Hi Alvin!”
0:00:20 - ALVIN WANG GRAYLIN: “Hi Cecilia!”
0:00:21 - CECILIA LASCIALFARI: “Alvin You are: Bestselling Author of "Our Next Reality" published by Hachette Books LI | Global VP of Corp. Dev. HTC | Vice-Chair Industry of VR Alliance | President VRVCA | Investor | Speaker | Top Artificial Intelligence (Al) Voice on LinkedIn… But… who is Alvin Wang Grayling really?"
0:00:52 - ALVIN WANG GRAYLIN: Answer
0:01:50 - CECILIA LASCIALFARI: "Alvin, you and Louis Rosenberg are the authors of "Our Next Reality". You wrote this book at a key moment for the application of AI to the world of work. How did you organize this publication, how did your collaboration begin….Tell us about your book, we want to know everything."
0:02:16 - ALVIN WANG GRAYLIN: Answer
0:03:18 - CECILIA LASCIALFARI: "When Generative AI hit the mainstream, people of all backgrounds began to deal with a subject that until then had only been handled by scientists. Do you think this was a good thing or do you think it was a problem?"
0:03:40 - ALVIN WANG GRAYLIN: Answer
0:04:23 - CECILIA LASCIALFARI: "What do you think of what the European Union is doing with the approval of the EU AI Act and the AI Office?"
0:04:33 - ALVIN WANG GRAYLIN: Answer
0:05:28 - CECILIA LASCIALFARI: "One of the first mainstream approaches to Generative AI was through the generation of new content such as images, texts, video, audio and codes. Fake news is the order of the day. The Gartner 2024 report states that we will no longer be able to believe in social networks due to fake news generated by AI and the integration of AI into the social networks. What do you think about it?"
0:06:00 - ALVIN WANG GRAYLIN: Answer
0:06:45 - CECILIA LASCIALFARI: How do you think AI will evolve in the next two years?"
0:06:50 - ALVIN WANG GRAYLIN: Answer
0:07:28 - CECILIA LASCIALFARI: "Tell me about your plans for the future… I want to know all the secrets you haven't told anyone yet!"
0:07:36 - ALVIN WANG GRAYLIN: Answer
0:09:19 - CECILIA LASCIALFARI: This interview was recorded during AWE USA 2024 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, in June 2024.
0:09:31 - "PROMOTIONAL MOMENT!!!" by Alvin Wang Graylin
0:09:57 - CECILIA LASCIALFARI: "Thank you Alvin for this interview and thank you all!"
0:10:03 - CECILIA LASCIALFARI: "Who I am?"
0:10:17 - CECILIA LASCIALFARI: "See you soon at the next interview!!!"
0:10:24 - Closing Theme - "Become sponsor of the "Flying Into The Metaverse Through Books & Culture"
LinkedIn Alvin Wang Graylin: www.linkedin.com/in/agraylin/
LinkedIn Louis Rosenberg: www.linkedin.com/in/louis-rosenberg/
About AWE: www.awexr.com
On the ARea6DoF website you will find the article dedicated to Alvin Wang Graylin: area6dof.com/alvin-wang-graylin-at-flying-into-the-metaverse-through-books-culture-our-next-reality/