The carmaker aims to expand its operations to the final frontier.

Honda began working on the rocket in late 2019 and already has some serious hardware to show for it — a brand-new engine.

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During the Connect 2021 conference last week, Meta Reality Labs’ Chief Scientist, Michael Abrash, offered a high-level overview of some of the R&D that’s behind the company’s multi-billion dollar push into XR and the metaverse.

Michael Abrash leads the team at Meta Reality Labs Research which has been tasked with researching technologies that the company believes could be foundational to XR and the metaverse decades in the future. At Connect 2,021 Abrash shared some of the group’s very latest work.

Meta’s Codec Avatar project aims to achieve a system capable of capturing and representing photorealistic avatars for use in XR. A major challenge beyond simply ‘scanning’ a person’s body is getting it to then move in realistic ways—not to mention making the whole system capable of running in real-time so that the avatar can be used in an interactive context.

Velocity, a startup developing a platform that allows developers to test and debug apps prior to production, has raised $17 million.

How is this explained?

The eggs of these two condors must have been fertilized on their own without the involvement of sperm. Is such a thing even possible? Scientists do think it is possible and this strange process is called Parthenogenesis.