{"id":150017,"date":"2022-11-12T21:24:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T03:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/metaverse-yada-yada-yada-anything-world-raises-7-5m-for-its-ai-animation-tool"},"modified":"2022-11-12T21:24:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T03:24:26","slug":"metaverse-yada-yada-yada-anything-world-raises-7-5m-for-its-ai-animation-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/metaverse-yada-yada-yada-anything-world-raises-7-5m-for-its-ai-animation-tool","title":{"rendered":"Metaverse \u2018yada yada yada\u2019 \u2014 Anything World raises $7.5m for its AI animation tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/metaverse-yada-yada-yada-anything-world-raises-7-5m-for-its-ai-animation-tool2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s technology essentially lets users take a pre-existing static 3D model and bring it to life. So, if you\u2019re building a 3D forest in a virtual world, and you\u2019ve got some 3D models of what you want the animals to look like, Anything World\u2019s machine learning-powered tech will put a virtual skeleton in that animal, allowing it to move in a lifelike way.<\/p>\n<p>The round comes amid waning interest in metaverse investments this year, according to data from Dealroom. Investment into startups tagged under \u201cmetaverse\u201d on its platform dropped from a high of $2.8bn in Q2 to $446m in Q3, as <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/metaverse-decentraland-report-active-users\">low user interest<\/a> affects previously hyped platforms and Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/09\/technology\/meta-layoffs-facebook.html?\">Meta lays off 11k employees.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anything World cofounder Sebastian Hofer says that, while many investors have been seduced by the metaverse hype in the last year, his company is building a tool that\u2019s also useful to clients who have no interest in jumping on the Zuckerberg bandwagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company\u2019s technology essentially lets users take a pre-existing static 3D model and bring it to life. So, if you\u2019re building a 3D forest in a virtual world, and you\u2019ve got some 3D models of what you want the animals to look like, Anything World\u2019s machine learning-powered tech will put a virtual skeleton in that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}