
Analyse Asia with Bernard Leong Reality Platforms and Decentralized Mapping in the Metaverse with Alex Chung
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Nov 16, 2022 AI Snips
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First Startup: Quantitative Hedge Fund
- Alex started his first company as a quantitative hedge fund focused on emerging market debt.
- He raised million-dollar checks and learned the hustle-and-bust lessons of running a startup.
Phone-Based Photoreal 3D Mapping
- Reality Platforms builds photorealistic 3D models of the real world from smartphone imagery.
- Alex Chung highlights neural radiance fields let phones generate high-quality reconstructions without LiDAR.
Google's Ground-Truth Monopoly
- Google Street View holds near-monopoly control of ground-truth street imagery and mapping.
- Alex argues decentralization plus smartphone scale can slash data acquisition costs and unlock new uses.
