Meta’s US$77B pivot from virtual reality to AI-powered wearables shows new ways for digital health to be more immersive than ever…
If you grew up in the same era as me, this group of superheroes would be familiar to you… The iconic phrase “It’s Morphin Time” and their wearable devices (Power Morphers in the form of belt buckles) would be the activation key – transforming the ordinary teenagers into the Power Rangers – enhanced superheroes with new capabilities and powerful vehicles shaped like prehistoric beasts and dinosaurs.1 It may seem like fantasy as a child, but in this digital health era, technology is advancing so fast that it can potentially transform regular people into something more powerful through the two ‘A’s – AI (Artificial Intelligence) and AR (Augmented Reality).
After renaming Facebook to Meta in 2021 with the prediction that the Metaverse will be the future, Mark Zuckerberg is now cutting it’s US $77 billion loss to shift from the metaverse to AI.2 3 So is this the end of the Metaverse? Well, I think it’s getting its upgrade…
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