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Vitalik Buterin
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Generative AI is helping me write code, make drawings and learn. Crypto is helping me make international payments, use more open social networks, and get a new class of supplementary news via polymarket. What is the metaverse doing? (Genuine question, not an attack) https://x.com/edzitron/status/1833914016240222715
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I don’t know what you consider the metaverse to be, but if it includes simulations it currently helps surgeons prepare
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I think metaverse as used in the public imagination has a connotation of combining (i) high immersion, (ii) persistent worlds with long lasting duration, (iii) scale. Surgeon training has (i) but not really the other two?
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When I discovered it existed, the CEO of the company building these simulations for surgeons (PrediSurge I think, among others) was also talking about evolving towards the idea of "digital twin", which in my understanding tries to replicate parts of the body of the actual patient, with post-operation persistence for monitoring, which sounds like (ii). As for scale, if it does help surgeons I hope it can be generalized.
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