Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse: Introducing Luna

It's an interesting time to be building metaverse tech. Last year, metaverse was the buzzy tech word du jour. Now, it's artificial intelligence.

I think Zuckerburg is generally right about AI and the metaverse being tightly coupled, mutually reinforcing technologies, and that Meta's head start in immersive tech will pay off down the road as AI gets incorporated into the computing platforms of the future.

AI and Frame

We're not aiming to hastily shoehorn things into Frame in a desperate grab to capitalize on AI hype. Frame and Frame teammates have been experimenting with AI for a little while now.

We've been using AI-powered tools for some time in Frame to help us achieve things like closed captions and translations. I'm pretty sure we were the first metaverse on the web to have real-time, translated speech to text.

Introducing Luna

Luna is a robot from the moon. No one knows how Luna got on the moon or how it powers itself.

Luna has been trained in a special form of mixed martial arts for robots. Beyond the skills it had when we first got to know it, Luna has been surprising us with emergent behaviors and skills.

Generation, Ideation, Creation

Luna has already started to weave a few generative AI features into Frame as creative conversation and ideation tools. Users can generate images and skyboxes inside Frame with prompts.

It's my prediction that within 12 months the text-to-3D tools will be so far along that Luna will be implementing them in Frame, helping people prompt into existence 3D models and environments with other people inside immersive spaces.

Meeting Summaries and More

Luna is going to provide a set of useful features for meeting-goers. At first, Luna will be able to summarize meetings happening in your audio zone. Different teams having different meetings throughout your Frame can all enjoy meeting transcriptions and summaries.