Make Skyrim 💁🐉
Remind me when the Internet admired Gopnik flying on a magic carpet among Russian apartment blocks? Not even a year has passed since we discussed Genie 3—and now a new hero has entered the scene.
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👮 AI-powered police glasses with facial recognition are being tested in China
Surveillance cameras have long been part of city life. Now the camera and access to databases are moving directly onto an officer’s face, enabling real-time identification and background checks on the spot.
🏃♂️ Fontanka reports: Roblox is now working without restrictions in Russia
We predicted Roblox’s return six months ago. However, press releases and public discussion still contain no information about moving its infrastructure to Russia.
An LLM can decide your fate—literally, though only in a game for now ❤
Fabula Rasa Dead Man Talking is a VR experience in which you face execution in a medieval square and must convince a witch, bard, executioner, and other characters to speak in your defense.
Meta is laying off employees again 👥
Every time I read a headline about layoffs at Zuckerberg’s company, I subconsciously expect that the long-suffering VR/metaverse division has been put out in the cold again. This time the cuts are spread across the board: 8,000 people will be laid off, 7,000 reassigned to AI, and 6,000 roles left unfilled.
Russian indie game The Ballad of a True Thug is out on Steam 🎮
Congratulations to the team of brave young developers on their long-awaited release! 😏
Following up on my CIPR 2026 video updates 🤨
One of the sessions I moderated at CIPR focused on AdTech and autonomous demand. Here are several figures that are exciting—and may be shocking to some.
🗓 CIPR 2026 will take place in Nizhny Novgorod on May 18–21
In recent weeks, my attention has been focused on the Digitalization of Industrial Russia conference. I will be there to moderate two sessions—one on autonomous demand in AdTech and another on components for the video game industry.
A factory in 10 minutes 🏭
Industrial VR has long had an awkward problem. The vision was an engineer entering a digital factory, finding a fault, and fixing it—but first someone had to spend weeks or months building that factory in 3D.
Are humans no longer needed? ❔
DeepMind alumnus David Silver raised $1.1 billion to launch a new AI startup, Ineffable Intelligence. An impressive amount will go towards solving a huge task: creating artificial intelligence that can learn without human data.
✈️ A pilot died while filming for Apple Vision Pro
What is striking about this story is not only the tragedy itself but the logic of the genre—immersive media promises audiences safe risk while the people making it may face very real danger.