This is from a talk on the convergence of XR and AI at the AI Everything Summit in Dubai, UAE, Spring 2019.

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

2. Digital Bodies - VR, AR, and AI
www.DigitalBodies.net @DigitalBodies @mayaig & @emorycraig
Conference Talks | Workshops |
Research | VR and AR Playgrounds |
Design Thinking | Digital Storytelling |
Higher Education Futures | Digital
Learning Strategy | VR Lab Design

3. Two Game-changing Developments

4. A New Era: From Information to
Experience
www.DigitalBodies.net

5. Ivan Sutherland, The Ultimate Display, 1965

6. VR, AR, and MR (Mixed Reality)

7. The End Point: A Simple Pair of Glasses

8. The development of AI

9. Growth of VR/AR Overlaid on AI Projections

10. There is no reason and no way
that a human mind can keep up with
an artificial Intelligent machine
by 2035.
- Gary Scott
AI in the Future

11. Converging Technologies
www.DigitalBodies.net

12. Labster 2.0 Virtual Lab with an AI Assistant

13. First Class - Teacher Training with VR and AI

14. Embodied AI-Driven Avatars
www.DigitalBodies.net

15. This is not AI Embodiment

16. Sofia: a Social
Humanoid Robot

17. Facebook’s Avatar Development

18. Avatars in China Central Television’s (CCTV)
Spring Festival Web Gala show

19. Mixed Reality - Magic Leap One

20. Magic Leap’s Vision of AI-Driven Avatars

21. Magic Leap’s Mica

22. 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

23. Challenges
www.DigitalBodies.net

24. Privacy Issues
Eye-tracking Technology will be Ubiquitous

25. Ethical Issues: the Real and Virtual Self
Legal, Cultural Rules and Norms

26. What if She Could Read Your Mind?

27. Digital Fluency

28. 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
Are we Ready? Are you?

29. The Future
www.DigitalBodies.net

30. ● 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
VR and AR will Transform Learning
Virtual Tutors and Personal Assistants

31. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Radically Innovative Learning Experiences

32. Profoundly Different Forms of Storytelling
Characters who “Live” with us

33. Human and Virtual Avatar Collaboration at GDC 2019

34. 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