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Luis Bravo Martins
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Emerging Tech Advisor, VP@XRSI Europe, author. Promotes safe business practices and open resources on #AugmentedReality #VirtualReality #Metaverse and #VirtualWorlds
Vila Nova de Gaia's Municipality is providing stress-relief sessions to its citizens through #virtualreality.

This is how easily immersive tech literacy and usefulness can be shared. Maybe we don't need a killer app after all.

www.cm-gaia.pt/pt/noticias/...
Notícias e Destaques - Sessões de realidade virtual para a promoção de bem-estar
Atividade financiada pelo Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência
www.cm-gaia.pt
July 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This saturday, I'll be at Almada Digital Summit sharing #virtualreality and #augmentedreality market numbers + case studies + skills and tools + why they matter now.

Tickets are free and available at www.eventbrite.com/e/almada-dig...
Almada Digital Summit
Evento gratuito em Almada sobre Marketing Digital, Inovação e Sustentabilidade. Dia 31 de Maio no Centro Cultural Fernão Mendes Pinto.
www.eventbrite.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Our final episode of HealthTech Portugal #Metaverse webinar series strikes closer to home, as someone who had to deal with loved ones' neurocognitive disorders aka #dementia.

If you're curious, click here: shorturl.at/oLRn1 and join us on May 22nd!
May 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Everyone can join the Horizon Europe networking event, happening tomorrow!

www.b2match.com/e/horizon-eu...
Horizon Europe - Industry 2025 Brokerage event
Online Brokerge Event dedicated for Horizon Europe Cluster 4 2025 calls, Industry part, organized by NCP4Industry project and supported by EEN
www.b2match.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This book (www.amazon.com/Rest-Your-Li...) clearly illustrated how smart pillows are perfect and, as far as I know, unregulated subliminal advertising vehicles.

And this market is growing clearly: place:https://shorturl.at/hbChr
The Rest of Your Life: Five Stories of Your Future
The Rest of Your Life: Five Stories of Your Future [Kremidas-Courtney, Chris, Litobarski, Joe] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Rest of Your Life: Five Stories of Your Future
www.amazon.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Big news! XRSI Europe and the Univetsity of Lisbon are teaming up to bring you the "Law of the Metaverse and the Virtual Worlds" course!

If you're a #lawyer, a legal student or researcher struggling to understand emerging tech, do check out the program here: lnkd.in/dnh-zHRf
April 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Next up, the amazing Valentino Megale will join us to explore his experience in managing pain with VR, discuss actual cases in hospitals and maybe share NDA-free results. 😏

If you're innovating in #healthcare, register here to kick-off your next friday with more insights: shorturl.at/GXtSg
March 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Gabriele Romagnoli has been a truly impactful voice rooting for XR and Virtual Worlds. Just (?) by asking the right questions, he connects tech dots and keeps on delivering the most interesting discussions I've heard inside our bubble.

All the podcast episodes are here: www.xraispotlight.com
XR AI Spotlight
XR AI Spotlight gives the stage to funders and makers pushing the boundaries of XR and AI. You will learn what happens when technology and creativity collide, how A…
www.xraispotlight.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
You can now listen about virtual reality and augmented reality use cases in hashtag#healthcare from all stakeholders involved.

Just tune in to HealthTech Portugal Metaverse webinar series starting tomorrow at 9h30 WET: shorturl.at/HrD3p
March 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Thanks to HealthTech Portugal, I'll be hosting a #metaverse #webinar series dedicated #XR in #Healthcare case studies.

Up first is Daniel Andreev, who'll be sharing how immersion and embodiment (and his startup) are improving anxiety therapy.

You can register at shorturl.at/HrD3p
March 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Europe and Brazil amount to 60% of the #XR talent sourced internationally in Portugal. Not unexpected but the number still impresses.

You can check this and other insights in the #Portugal #XR #Report 2024, available here: comunicacoes.apdc.pt/portugal-xr-...
March 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
#Ethics, #responsibility, #safety, #privacy, #identity, #self, #critical #thinking, #human #being, #truth - these are all philosophical concepts. This is the single most underrated professional area and we're in dire need of socially nurturing it.

sloanreview.mit.edu/article/phil...
Philosophy Eats AI
AI’s ability to create value rests on the philosophy determining how and what it learns.
sloanreview.mit.edu
March 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
In 1h time, we'll be debating direct-to-avatar models (a $2B market), AI agents and responsible sales in #virtualworlds.

Registrations are still open at: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/31db14...
February 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Hordes of bots are getting better at influencing us by the second.

There's an amazing business opportunity in leveraging #safety, #security and #trustbuilding as a competitive advantage - especially in #AI and especially in the European Union.

www.news18.com/opinion/opin...
Opinion | AI Debate: Safety Should Not Take A Backseat To Security And Non-State Actors’ Influence - News18
Concerns around safety are shifting towards security. This isn’t because it's not important but rather because the real danger of AI being used by non-state actors is increasing in the global narrativ...
www.news18.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The amazing team at the Virtual Dimension Center (www.vdc-fellbach.de/en/) collected all standards, guidelines and SDOs that relate with #XR, #Metaverse and #Virtual #Worlds.

This database is now available to us all at www.vdc-fellbach.de/en/knowledge...
December 18, 2024 at 9:36 AM
WorldLabs released a preview of their image-to-3Dworld engine. It allows us to walk around inside a painting and fly around to take different new photos.

Flip side? It's a new tool for #deepfake exploitation and #digital fraud.

Details at: www.worldlabs.ai/blog www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sch...
Generating Worlds
Today we're sharing our first step towards spatial intelligence: an AI system that generates 3D worlds from a single image.
www.worldlabs.ai
December 4, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Last weekend's read. 👀

#Public #Services in #Virtual #Worlds are picking up interest in the European Market, mainly due to different umbrella programs started by the European Commission.

This report covers those, along with use cases for Europe's #public metaverse.

op.europa.eu/en/publicati...
Emerging digital technologies in the public sector - Publications Office of the EU
This publication is an expert group report by the Innovation Friendly Regulations Advisory Group (IFRAG), a team of independent experts. It aims to provide expert advice on emerging digital technologi...
op.europa.eu
December 2, 2024 at 8:52 AM
That time when Cristiano Ronaldo showed off his Meta Rayban glasses at an awards ceremony. 😎 www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...
Cristiano Ronaldo shows off new Ray-Ban glasses with embedded camera
The glasses allow for recordings to be made from the frame, donning a built-in camera and microphone to allow for high-quality recordings to be made and shared to social media.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Reposted by Luis Bravo Martins
Let me post also here on Bluesky my amazing roundup of the most interesting Virtual Reality news of the week:

The XR Week Peek (2024.11.26): Valve Roy controller leaked, VR Black Friday deals, and more! skarredghost.com/2024/11/26/v...
#VirtualReality #MixedReality #technology #metaverse
The XR Week Peek (2024.11.26): Valve Roy controller leaked, VR Black Friday deals, and more!
Roundup of the most relevant news of the week, including the new leak on the Roy controllers of the Valve Deckard headset
skarredghost.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:49 PM
HTTP linking is the interoperable glue that allows our navigation throughout the WWW.
Today, OMA3 and the Metaverse Standards Forum propose a new standard that aims to do exactly the same for #virtualworlds.
You can join this possibly defining moment here: metaverse-standards.org/event/introd...
Introduction to OMA3’s Inter World Portaling System Specification
The OMA3 Inter-World Portaling System (IWPS) draft standard presents a novel framework for digital interoperability, acting as the 3D equivalent to a web hyperlink, seamlessly linking users to various...
metaverse-standards.org
November 27, 2024 at 8:58 AM