Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen warned that the social media platform’s shift to developing a virtual reality world, known as “metaverse,” poses new safety concerns. Haugen, a former product manager at Facebook who leaked internal company documents last month, detailed her concerns in an interview with The Associated Press published Tuesday.
Source: Facebook whistleblower warns of metaverse safety concerns
Twitch is launching a livestreaming incubator program called The Collective to help train and support musicians on the platform. The program will group musicians into invite-only groups called collectives designed to help artists learn how to use and maximize the platform, with support from Twitch staff and industry partners including Amazon Music, United Masters, DistroKid, and TuneCore, among others.
Source: Twitch Launches Livestreaming Music Incubator Program
The service plans to roll out automatically generated, synchronized transcripts on both iOS and Android in the US starting today, meaning the transcripts will match the audio you’re hearing, and you can toggle around them to jump to specific parts of the audio. The transcripts are interactive and can be viewed full-screen or on top of the album art within the app.
Source: Amazon Music launches its first true podcasts feature: synced transcripts
Producing audiobooks is expensive, so the appeal of automating audiobook creation is easy to understand. The traditional process can take two hours or more in the studio for one finished hour, and the average audiobook is eight hours long. A significant factor in the cost is the talent: brand-name talent is paid $1,000 or more per finished hour (PFH) of the audiobook, and with studio time and post-production added, the cost climbs quickly.
Source: AI Comes to Audiobooks
Sampling makes music production more accessible. You do not need to be able to play violin or saxophone to use that sound in your production. Instead, you can get some of the best sounds by the best musicians, from platforms like Splice and Tracklib, who recently raised $12.2 million to bring its pre-cleared sample platform to even more producers.
Source: Why making memes with creator tools is the new music industry
Amazon is said to be working on a live audio app that sounds like it will let anyone be the DJ of their own radio show — including music. Project Mic, as the app is currently known, will reportedly focus on the US market at first, though the launch timeline is not clear.
Source: Amazon’s Clubhouse competitor may let you DJ your own radio show
Roblox Corporation and EDC – scheduled to return to Las Vegas this weekend – just recently announced their unique agreement. Under the deal, Roblox and the Insomniac-owned music festival have established a “persistent world” called World Party (the space opened today), and fans can “watch and enjoy sets on the virtual stages” therein.
Source: Roblox Partners With EDC Las Vegas to Launch Metaverse Music Festival
Today’s filmmakers employ artificial intelligence in a variety of methods, beginning with pre-production and extending during production and post-production. As a result, artificial intelligence has shown to be beneficial in almost every facet of the film industry.
Source: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform the Film Industry – Film Daily
The collection includes curated/edited video clips from the theatre’s recent world premiere production from August, 2021 of Chris Gavaler’s “THe Zombie Life.” The “Zombie Life” collection joins Firehouse’s two other collections from Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” adapted by Shirley Kagan and Billy Christopher Maupin, and Andrew Gall’s “Walled In” from Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden.”
Source: Firehouse Theatre Launches Third NFT Collection Of Live Performance
The exciting thing about NFTs is that you can let everyone access the media, yet assign the ownership of the NFT that represents the media to one person. This is not that dissimilar from video games: your friend may have unlocked a certain skin that is purely cosmetic and does not affect gameplay. You can enjoy this skin while you play with your friend: even if they’re the ones who paid for it.
Source: Artificial scarcity isn’t bad and it’s not just a jpeg (on NFTs)