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Looking Back at AWE 2021, and Forward to an Augmented World

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Looking Back at AWE 2021, and Forward to an Augmented World

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Looking Back at AWE 2021, and Forward to an Augmented World

Looking Back at AWE 2021, and Forward to an Augmented World

Every year, AWE USA brings together the most forward-thinking adventurous pioneers of a new technology colloquially known as the metaverse. After this year’s show (Nov 9-11), I stayed in the San Francisco Bay Area where I starred at the ocean in Pacifica, CA, contemplating the massive amount of technology that I was privileged to see. These and other XR technologies will revolutionize how we communicate as humans in a new era. I felt an enormous sense of responsibility and an overwhelming feeling that each of us is contributing in a small way in the vast ocean that is technology.

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