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Intenseye raises $4M to boost workplace safety through computer vision

TechCrunch

Cofounder Sercan Esen says that one of the greatest challenges of the business is a technical one: Intenseye monitors workplace safety through computer vision to send EHS (employee health and safety) violation alerts but it also never analyzes faces or identifies individuals, and all video is destroyed on the fly and never stored with Intenseye. .”

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Synthesis AI raises $17M to generate synthetic data for computer vision

TechCrunch

Behzadi, of course, asserts that Synthesis has taken meaningful steps toward overcoming these technical hurdles. “Leading companies in the AR, VR, and metaverse space are using our diverse digital humans and accompanying rich set of 3D facial and body landmarks to build more realistic and emotive avatars,” Behzadi said.

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The Metaverse Is Not a Place

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

My personal metaverse prototype moment does not involve VR at all, but Zoom. Not only is it more than just doing things in VR, a metaverse doesn’t even require VR. I’m sure that such shared experiences in remarkable places are very much part of the VR future. The metaverse as a vector.

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