GDC

• RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CJ Logistics, a leading provider of logistics solutions worldwide, announced plans to build a Global Distribution Center (GDC) in Saudi Arabia by 2024.
• The GDC will be the first dedicated e-commerce logistics facility in Saudi Arabia.
• "The Saudi e-commerce market has the richest growth potential in the Middle East and the geographical advantage of connecting Africa and Europe," said Kang Sin-ho, CEO of CJ Logistics.
• "We will spare no support for state-of-the-art logistics technology and infrastructure so that the GDC can become a logistics hub that leads the Middle East e-commerce market."

• The easy-to-use application showcases a new multi-axis stand that will be available for use with the display in the summer 2023.
• The Pen Display 24 from Xencelabs was created in partnership with over 100 professional creatives who provided valuable insights on design, features, and ergonomics.
• Users can start working with the Pen Display 24 immediately after downloading their preferred driver (Mac, PC, or Linux) and plugging in the display.
• The Xencelabs Pen Display 24 is available to pre-order now .

• San Francisco’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) – the global gathering of the greatest creative minds in the games industry – opened its doors for the second time since the pandemic in March 2023.
• For 2023 it was applications of artificial intelligence (AI) for game development, with the future shape of the gaming experience – with and without virtual reality (VR) – high on the agenda.

AI developments and issues

• For games developers the interest in this type of AI relates to speeding up and easing game development, but there were also concerns raised about jobs being replaced by AI.
• The positive consensus was that humans are still best placed to ask the right questions to generate game content, even if such content was created by AI.
• This should avoid the potential ethical and legal issues of unintentionally publishing content learned from a copyrighted source, a key issue for this kind of AI.

Welcome to the metaverse

• We know Meta has already gambled big in this area, and clearly companies like Pico are happy to sell devices to experience it.
• So it wasn’t surprising that several tool and game engine providers were positioning themselves as a useful resource when creating content for the metaverse.
• It’s clear from this year’s GDC conference that the goal for the next generation of game engines is to prepare for digital spaces like the metaverse.
• Welcome to the Mario-verse?

• According to Savchenko, Metasites is a modular 3D internet framework built by XLA, that provides individual creators with the capacity to deploy their Unreal Engine built content and connect it to the XLA ecosystem of features and services.
• "We call them Metasites, and the idea here is that every one of these locations is part of an infinite network of 3D, explorable spaces.
• Metasites users will have access to virtual assets and various technology tools provided as a part of the offering from XLA.
• Enterprise and Creators programs are opening next quarter, and full commercial release is expected at Q4 2023.