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Toast The Trees

Angel’s Envy is celebrating their annual Toast The Trees initiative with an AR tree planting experience. Virtual tree plantings will influence real-world plantings across the country.

AI

Toyota Wants to Mass Produce AI-Powered "Fully Driverless Robotaxis."

Two Toyota-owned entities, Toyota Motor Investment Company and GAC Toyota Motor Company have just entered into a joint venture with leading autonomous-driving company Pony.ai. The vehicles will be equipped with Pony.ai’s autonomous driving tech and run on Pony.ai’s robotaxi network platform, “PonyPilot+.”

METAVERSE

You Can Try On Copenhagen Fashion Week's Latest Styles in the Metaverse

The largest fashion event in Scandinavia has enlisted a luxury mobile style game to enhance its program with daily in-game challenges. Each challenge within the game is built around a brief to style a model avatar using real-life luxury brands and real world events. Once players have completed a challenge, the final look is voted for by the community.

GAMING

The Met And Verizon Partner To Draw Young People Into Centuries Of Art With Clever Roblox Avatar Attire

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in partnership with Verizon, launched an innovative and user-friendly way for children and young adults to experience the collections of the nation’s largest museum. Users can scan a work of art to collect free wearable, digital artworks for their Roblox avatars.

SHOPPER

Starbucks Lets Customers Explore Notes of Kindness with New Augmented Reality Experience

Starbucks is inviting customers to explore their new AR experience and discover notes of kindness, photos, videos, and Kindness Cards that can be shared on social media platforms or via text message. To access the Web AR experience customers can use their phone to scan the QR code located on signs inside their local Starbucks. The experience is also accessible through the Starbucks app, on Starbucks Stories, or visiting kindness.starbucks.com.

CONFRENCING

Zoom Denies A.I. Fears Sparked by Recent Update

Zoom has said that the AI-related updates made clear that it would only use users’ personal data with their consent, and that use of content users produce would only be used for training if they opt in to using its new AI features. On Monday, the company updated its terms of service regarding customer content—e.g. videos, files, and transcripts—and what it describes as service-generated data, such as telemetry and diagnostics data.