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This week on Uncanny Valleyhosts Brian Barrett and Zoe Schiffer discuss highlights from Nvidia’s annual developer conference, and why Tesla has recently had trouble with some of its most loyal fans online. Additionally, the Meta’s initial decision to shut down Horizon Worlds VR on the Quest headset signals the end of the dream of the Metaverse. (Mita has since reversed course, saying she would do so.) Keep the platform on limited support “For the foreseeable future”).
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Zoe Schiffer: Brian, hello. It’s so exciting to have another way to talk to you when I’m not calling you on Slack every five seconds.
Brian Barrett: It’s great, because Slack doesn’t have the audio part.
Zoe Schiffer: no.
Brian Barrett: I will say: It’s very sad that Leah won’t be part of that trip today.
Zoe Schiffer: I know. It’s really sad, but when Leah is gone, the mice will be playing, and we’ll be talking about topics that Leah hates, so just wait.
Brian Barrett: To be clear, she will be back next week. She’s just sick.
Zoe Schiffer: Yes.
Brian Barrett: It’s allergy season
Zoe Schiffer: Welcome to WIRED Uncanny Valley. I’m Zoe Schiffer, Business and Industry Director at WIRED.
Brian Barrett: I’m Brian Barrett, executive editor.
Zoe Schiffer: We’ll dive into the show this week Nvidia Annual developers conference, why some Tesla influencers are fleeing the brandAnd why he finally died Close Horizon Worlds On MetaQuest. So, let’s get started, this week, Nvidia held its annual developers conference in San Jose. This is the big event in the AI industry. Some people even call it the Super Bowl of AI. Developers, CEOs, researchers, and WIRED reporters go — and we’re all waiting to hear what CEO Jensen Huang has to tell us about the company’s future.
Brian Barrett: One thing that’s interesting about the Nvidia conference as well is that I feel like a lot of it is business related. It’s not a lot of things that you wouldn’t necessarily connect with, as an AI consumer or someone playing with Claude. One thing, with a pinch of salt, because this is someone who could make this money, but Jensen actually said the revenue opportunity for artificial intelligence Nvidia’s chips could be worth at least $1 trillion by 2027.
Zoe Schiffer: Pocket change.
Brian Barrett: I mean really pocket change for Nvidia at this point. One thing that was really interesting: He introduced a new product. I always like that there is an actual product associated with this rather than a promise of the product. A while ago, Nvidia entered into a licensing deal with a company called Your puppynot to be confused with sometimes-