Aaron Frank

Why haven’t we found alien neighbors? One theory says advanced species don’t colonize outer space, but make virtual worlds and colonize inner space instead.

“The more 1000% authentic you are, the more you have monopoly over what you’re doing. Just be your weird self, and just be all of that. Either the world loves it, and there is something great there, or it doesn’t.”—Andrew Finn, cofounder of Wait But Why If you remove the empty space inside the atoms […]

Some propose that virtual reality could be solution to the Fermi Paradox. We examine the transcension hypothesis and delve into this possibility.

On its 14th birthday, a reflection on Linden Lab’s groundbreaking Second Life, and how their next project Sansar hopes to go even further. In May 2006, Bloomberg’s Businessweek ran a cover story detailing the business empire of real estate millionaire Anshe Chung. What caught the world’s attention, however, is that Anshe Chung wasn’t a real […]

Science is a critical tool in solving many of the world’s biggest challenges, but do we have enough trained scientists? One startup is developing virtual reality science laboratories they hope can help educate millions of new scientists around the world.

eXp Realty’s market cap crossed $1 billion on the first day of trading. This growth is largely the result of the company’s use of an online virtual world.

We’re close to building Earth’s “avatar layer”—where millions of lifelike avatars fill the world around us, connecting businesses to customers in new ways.

A Marshmello concert in video game Fortnite attracted 10 million attendees, showcasing the potential for large-scale human gatherings in 3D virtual worlds.

Can the technologies automating jobs also help workers learn the skills they’ll need to find new work in the changing economy? This AI learning startup thinks so.

The past decade was a breathtaking era in human history in which the idea of exponential growth in information technologies powered by computation became a mainstream concept.

The most astonishing aspect is the scope and scale of the event; more than a million visitors are expected to participate over the course of 10 days.

Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5 video game graphics demo blew up the internet last week—AR/VR artist, Estella Tse, helps us understand why.

3D digital maps will become living breathing, real-time representations of the world. Some refer to this idea as a “digital twin” of the planet.

The Interplanetary File System (or IPFS) could reshape how data is managed across the web, yielding a more dependable archive for our ephemeral internet.

There’s been an explosion of noise and hype about the metaverse. If you’re new to the concept, this introduction is for you.

NVIDIA says digital twins of Earth’s climate, like its Earth-2 system, can help us better plan for and adapt to our rapidly changing climate.

Generating 3D scenes has been expensive and time-consuming. Now, thanks to new approaches, 3D capture of the world is progressing at stunning speed.

What should we call augmented and virtual reality? Apple has thoughts. So do others. The debate matters: What we name new tech affects how we perceive it.

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A ChatGPT Moment Is Coming for Robotics. AI World Models Could Help Make It Happen.