Analyse Asia with Bernard Leong

Reality Platforms and Decentralized Mapping in the Metaverse with Alex Chung

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Nov 16, 2022
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ANECDOTE

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.
INSIGHT

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.
INSIGHT

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.
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