Who Can You Trust?

Welcome to the
Future of AI-driven Avatars in XR
Prof. Emory Craig
Director of eLearning, College of New Rochelle
Cofounder, Digital Bodies

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Digital Bodies - VR, AR, and AI

Conference Talks | Workshops |

Research | VR and AR Playgrounds |
Design Thinking | Digital Storytelling |
Higher Education Futures | Digital
Learning Strategy | VR Lab Design

www.DigitalBodies.net @DigitalBodies @mayaig & @emorycraig

Two Gamechanging Developments
A New Era: From Information to
Experience

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Ivan Sutherland, The Ultimate Display, 1965
VR, AR, and MR (Mixed Reality)
The End Point: A Simple Pair of Glasses
The development of AI
Growth of VR/AR Overlaid on AI Projections
AI in the Future

There is no reason and no way

that a human mind can keep up with
an artificial Intelligent machine
by 2035.
- Gary Scott
Converging Technologies

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Labster 2.0 Virtual Lab with an AI Assistant
First Class - Teacher Training with VR and AI
Embodied AI-Driven Avatars

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This is not AI Embodiment
Sofia: a Social
Humanoid Robot
Facebook’s Avatar Development
Mixed Reality - Magic Leap One
Magic Leap’s Vision of AI-Driven Avatars
Mica
Human and AI Avatar Creativity and Collaboration
VR and AI are not just Technologies

…we shouldn’t fathom [Virtual

Reality] as a media experience;
we should fathom it as a
[human] experience.

- Jeremy Bailenson
Challenges

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 Privacy Issues

Eye-tracking Technology will be Ubiquitous

Ethical Issues: the Real and Virtual Self

Legal, Cultural Rules and Norms

Digital Fluency
will be Critical
Are your Students Ready? Are you?

Any amateur user will be able to

generate an avatar that looks
like anybody on earth, or anybody
who has lived, and then animate
that avatar to do whatever they'd like.
- Michael Madary
 The Future

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VR and AR will Transform Learning

● From lesson plan to performance challenge

● From classroom time to real time
● From course content to situational context
● From Learning then doing to doing and then
learning
● From physical classroom to virtual experience
● From all move together to each her own path
Virtual Tutors and Personalized Learning
Radically Innovative Learning Experiences

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Profoundly Different Forms of Storytelling

Characters who “Live” with us

The greatest benefit
of the arrival of
artificial intelligence
is that AIs will help
define humanity. We
need AIs to tell us
who we are.”
– Kevin Kelly
VR and AI will be Easy to Create

Disney Research - Project Cardinal

Growth of AI
Avatars in China Central Television’s (CCTV)
Spring Festival Web Gala show
YouTube and AI
What if She Could Read Your Mind?
AI in the Future