FrameVR: Showing their cards
LANDMARK MEDIA / Alamy Stock Photo For quite some tie, I've been wondering what cards FrameVR.io (hereafter called Frame) had to play in the AI-in-XR space. They were flirting with the concept right around the time of the Mozilla Hubs announced shutdown, but despite witnessing the entire XR industry contract around them, they kept claiming "We're all in on AI". They seemed to mean more than just AI characters in XR space. I just didn't know how . With Gabe Baker's "AI In Meetings: Treading on Sacred Human Space" LinkedIn article of January 23, 2025, I got a much clearer vision. And I'm disturbed. This post, therefore, is a response. I write it with a pang of regret, but here goes. A Brief History of FrameVR, from Heather's perspective I have the date when Frame arrived on my radar: March 27, 2020. I was exploring easy-to-access XR platforms and spent some time exploring Frame with the great Scot Daniel Livingstone. Exploring Daniel'...
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