#4 Deeptech in Perspective - The TOP 9 Deeptech trends that will define 2023
What's happening this month? January 2023
9 Game-Changing Deeptech Trends to Watch in 2023: How AI, Web3.0 and VR will transform our World
By Loïc Bardon, Deeptech Community Ambassador
I am delighted to announce my contribution to one of the last episodes of Silicon Carne which resulted in a hundred predictions for the coming year. To listen to the synthesis check here 👉🏻https://siliconcarne.uncut.fm/nft/34359740000
Below I’m sharing with you the TOP 9 Deeptech technology predictions for 2023 (disclaimer: this is not exhaustive, I didn't have time to cover other topics like energy, health, transportation, etc...):
#1 Virtual Reality, GAFAM continues to fight
The rumours about the release of the "iPhone" glass by Apple continue. Rumours are in circulation. Mark Zuckerberg reallocates a large part of the budget allocated to his failed Metaverse to augmented reality. With a new version of HoloLens, Microsoft doubles down. But it's a shot in the dark. Apple, aware of the importance of time to market, is waiting until 2024 to test and get feedback from its fan community. In 2023, Apple will be preparing an aggressive strategy aimed at attracting the maximum number of developers of augmented reality applications in order to launch its offering with a real value proposition. At the end of 2023, a keynote is announced for 2024 to finally unveil its new mass-market AR product..
#2 The emergence of a new "tech punk" movement that fights to redirect consumption into the virtual world
Today, teenagers are building, collaborating, expressing, learning and socialising all the time, thanks to virtual worlds. In a few years, they will be adults and business leaders. Virtual worlds will have evolved by then. Their ergonomics will have improved. They will have become more visible and valued. This change is already happening: some teenagers are asking their parents for Fortnite skins as birthday presents. In 2023, this new movement will be such that consumers would rather buy a new skin for their avatar than a new pair of Levis trousers that they don't really need (and that have travelled thousands of miles to reach the consumer, not to mention the amount of water used and the age of those who produce them).
#3 The AAA video game industry is getting into the web3 and the environment
While Valve banned NFT games, Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, allows them on the store. The store has over 194 million users. Gala Games' GRIT becomes the first blockchain AAA game. It is the first battle royale game built on the Unreal Engine. In other words, it's a web3-style "Fortnite-like" game. It uses the blockchain to authenticate unique digital items and allows players to resell items. It's all set in the Wild West, where players take on a gang of armed bandits with over 400 variations of old-school firearms. Ubisoft is unveiling its new game following the release of the new Avatar film. The video game giant has redesigned its gameplay to incorporate looting mechanisms with an ecological dimension. It did so in collaboration with the Terra Nil teams.
#4 Regulation of content generated by AI systems
There is too much noise for the regulators to ignore for long: the proliferation of deep fake content, the avalanche of content via low-cost means of production such as chatGPT&co, the takeover of Twitter&. My bet would be on China's leadership in this area, which has recently been the subject of internal political tensions. Big techs are "forced" to implement tracking technology and inform users that content is AI-generated.
#5 AI launches the second wave of 3D printing
3D modelling of objects is created in a single operation using a new type of imaging tool. These tools are rapidly being adopted by various industries: cinema, television, interior design, architecture, car design... The transition from idea to design to realisation is becoming much faster. This lowers the barriers to entry for new players compared to historical players.
#6 Launching a decentralized buy/sell marketplace for computing power
Apple believes that the true form of edge computing in the future will be the increasingly powerful mobile phones in our pockets, which will carry most of the load of the other devices around us, such as smart watches and glasses. Notions of decentralised computing are always inspired by the insatiable need for processing. With so many powerful, and often unused, devices in the homes and hands of consumers, it seems inevitable that we will develop systems to make efficient use of them. Smart contracts and tokens provide an economic model for this sharing. Such a marketplace could be a source of some of the vast amounts of processing power required by the metaverse.
#7 Twitter lays the first building blocks to replicate the WeChat-style SuperApp model
Twitter is beginning to transform itself and replicate the SuperApp model (which is working very well in South America and China) under the impetus of Elon Musk. By forming numerous partnerships with players in the delivery, banking, insurance, etc. sectors, Twitter is positioning itself as a one-stop shop in the daily lives of millions of Americans. To accelerate the adoption of this new model, Twitter is putting in place web3 mechanisms that reward users for their engagement. Twitter is multiplying its partnerships with brands that see the platform as the ideal Trojan horse to launch their web3 communities.
#8 2023, the big bang of web3 platforms
In the wake of Nike's recent announcement of its web3 Swoosh platform, brands behind iconic IPs are launching their own proprietary platforms, and abandoning the current "metaverses" (the sandbox&co) that are flopping, to get their hands on the secondary and virtual markets.
#9 2023 marks the beginning of the real estate tokenization movement for retail players
To face the economic/energy crisis, retail players looking for new sources of revenue position themselves as advocates of tokenising real estate. A major FR retail player becomes the pioneer of a movement that spreads through the creation of a consortium. These players are working together in a lobbying effort to ensure that the regulation of this market does not disrupt this new dynamic. In France, tokenised real estate is finally starting to take off. A competitor to RealIT is emerging.
🌊The present is the beta version of the future.
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