"Software architect, investor, entrepreneur. I love collaborating with great engineers to build SDKs, runtimes and tools that empower developers, while focusing on quality and ease of use. Interests include VR and graphics, AI, programming languages, compilers and longevity/biotechnology.

Co-founder of Oculus, now a part of Facebook. Led development of Oculus PC Runtime and SDK for DK1, DK2 and Oculus Rift. Started Web VR team, including shipping of Carmel browser and React VR. Contributed to Caffe2/Pytorch as a part of Facebook AI team.

Co-founder and CTO of Scaleform, sold to Autodesk, Inc. Led development of Scaleform GFx, the leading User Interface toolkit in games. Scaleform included GPU-accelerated vector graphics and a bytecode VM to enable playback of Flash content inside of game engines on PCs, consoles and mobile devices.
Software architect, investor, entrepreneur. I love collaborating with great engineers to build SDKs, runtimes and tools that empower developers, while focusing on quality and ease of use. Interests include VR and graphics, AI, programming languages, compilers and longevity/biotechnology. Co-founder of Oculus, now a part of Facebook. Led development of Oculus PC Runtime and SDK for DK1, DK2 and Oculus Rift. Started Web VR team, including shipping of Carmel browser and React VR. Contributed to Caffe2/Pytorch as a part of Facebook AI team. Co-founder and CTO of Scaleform, sold to Autodesk, Inc. Led development of Scaleform GFx, the leading User Interface toolkit in games. Scaleform included GPU-accelerated vector graphics and a bytecode VM to enable playback of Flash content inside of game engines on PCs, consoles and mobile devices."

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelantonov/

https://twitter.com/_michaelantonov?lang=en

Greg Horowitt is an advisor to Nanome Inc.,  Venture Capitalist, Innovation Ecosystem Architect, author, serial entrepreneur, public speaker and adviser to international and domestic organizations and governments. He has unique expertise at the intersection of high impact startup investment + mentorship, innovation based economic development, capital formation, policy, strategy, technology transfer and commercialization. He is also the co-founder of a leading innovation think tank, and prior experience as senior executive for Fortune 500 company.  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/horowitt/
https://twitter.com/ghorowitt

"I'm really interested in understand how psychedelic drugs work on a molecular pharmacological level. I am developing expertise in ligand-receptor docking to understand how the 3-dimensional shape of a ligand dictates how it docks to a receptor. With this knowledge, better ligands can be designed to produce the desired effects due to an understanding of functional selectivity of 1 pathway towards another. Other than research I have an excitement for teaching and education." -Asher Brandt 

https://twitter.com/brandtasher

https://www.linkedin.com/in/asher-brandt-172b2793/

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This week’s topics

• Autodesk acquires XR firm The Wild
• Axie Infinity’s Ronin Network Suffers $625M Exploit
• Coot 1 is out and it’s cooler than ever!

Qualcomm’s new Metaverse fund, AR/VR headset growth, and SNAP’s BCI acquisition

• SNAP Acquires NextMind to Drive Augmented Reality Research
  • https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/snap-acquires-nextmind-to-drive-augmented-reality-research?amp
• Augmented And Virtual Reality Headset Shipments Grew 92% In 2021
  • https://www.alistdaily.com/technology/virtual-reality-headset-market-sees-unprecedented-growth-in-2021/amp/
• Qualcomm Sets Up $100M Fund for Metaverse Investments
  • https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/24/qualcomm-sets-up-100m-fund-for-metaverse-investments/
• 1.23.2 Patch, Nanome roadmap for the rest of 2022, and Nanome 2.0
  • https://blog.matryx.ai/1-23-2-patch-nanome-roadmap-for-the-rest-of-2022-and-nanome-2-0-2206c2e1a7ab

• We’re launching an NFT collection to help support scientific research in the Metaverse
  • https://blog.matryx.ai/the-science-metaverse-3c6081e686be
• Adobe stakes its claim in the metaverse with AR/VR tools
  • https://venturebeat.com/2022/03/15/adobe-stakes-its-claim-in-the-metaverse-with-ar-vr-tools/
• The Magic Leap 2 blurs the line between AR and VR — and it’s beautiful
  • https://thenextweb.com/news/magic-leap-2-ar-vr-together-at-last
• AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours
  • https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22983197/ai-new-possible-chemical-weapons-generative-models-vx

• https://future.a16z.com/alphafold-gpt-3-and-how-to-augment-intelligence-with-ai/
• https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/09/biden-issues-long-awaited-executive-order-on-crypto/

• Discussion about seqster, our neighbor joins decentralized trials & research alliance (dtra) to democratize and accelerate clinical trials
  • https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/seqster-joins-decentralized-trials--research-[…]o-democratize-and-accelerate-clinical-trials-301491744.html
• New Partnership Between Molecule, Apollo, and VitaDAO
  • https://www.lifespan.io/news/new-partnership-between-molecule-apollo-and-vitadao/
• Apple Reportedly Completes Production Tests for AR/VR Headset
  • https://www.macrumors.com/2022/02/21/apple-completes-ar-vr-headset-production-tests/
• Meta AI Concept: Create VR Worlds By Just Describing What You Want
  • https://uploadvr.com/meta-builderbot-ai-concept/
• why does the scientific metaverse start at the molecular scale or need to be atomically precise?
• what other industries can Nanome apply to
• what other scientific metaverses are there besides atomically precise ones
• how do we go from 1-100 nanometers and beyond