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A collaborative team based in California was investigating how AR affects learning in museums, but soon realised there weren’t any accurate Ice Age animals in the metaverse yet that they could use.

As a result, the team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, La Brea Tar Pits, in collaboration with designers at the University of Southern California (USC), built the models in a blocky, low poly style so that they could be scientifically accurate, but still simple enough to run on normal mobile phones with limited processing power.

“The innovation of this approach is that it allows us to create scientifically accurate artwork for the metaverse without over-committing to details where we still lack good fossil evidence,” said Dr William Swartout, chief technology officer at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies.

The researchers hope this will also bring more respect to paleoart - the artistic discipline that aims to recreate what extinct animals may have looked like.

“Paleoart can be very influential in how the public, and even scientists, understand fossil life,” said Dr Emily Lindsey, assistant curator at La Brea Tar Pits and senior author of the study.

According to Lindsey, scientists treat a lot of paleoart as an afterthought and are not subject to the same rigorous scrutiny as other scientific research. This can lead to particularly bad reconstructions of extinct animals being propagated for generations in both the popular media and academic publications.

“We think paleoart is a crucial part of paleontological research,” said Dr Matt Davis, an exhibition developer at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. “That’s why we published all the scientific research and artistic decisions that went into creating these models. This will make it easier for other scientists and paleoartists to critique and build off our team’s work.”

Davis noted it is just as important to acknowledge what we don’t know about these animals’ appearances as it is to record what we do know. For example, we can accurately depict the shaggy fur of Shasta ground sloths because paleontologists have found a complete skeleton of this species with hair and skin still preserved. For mastodons, paleontologists have only found a few strands of hair – their thick fur pelt was an artistic decision.

The research team hopes that other paleoartists and scientists will follow their example by publishing all the research that goes into their reconstructions of extinct species. This approach should mean better and more accurate paleoart for everyone.

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SINGAPORE, Mar 2, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - Society Pass Incorporated (SoPa)(Nasdaq: "SOPA"), Southeast Asia's fastest growing loyalty and ecommerce ecosystem today, announced that Maxim Group LLC (Maxim) has announced that they have initiated equity research of SoPa and published their initial Equity Research Report, dated February 24, 2022.

In its report, Maxim highlighted the following key growth drivers for SoPa:
- Large and growing South and Southeast Asia markets that are shifting towards digitalization
- Launch of Society Points in 2H22 which is high margin and should increase customer retention.
- Technology for data and loyalty programs should grow e-commerce.
- Relaunch of Leflair in 2H21, which is a top-five luxury ecommerce site in Vietnam. Leflair generated ~$9M in revenue in 2019.
- Grow merchant-related fees from partnership program, POS devices, software, and vendor finance offerings.
- Grow new customers through event marketing with strategic partners, digital/social media engagement, and joint marketing with merchants.
- Roll up smaller ecommerce-related companies. Opportunities are available at low multiples as target companies have fewer alternative forms of capital. Acquisition targets can generate revenue and expense synergies as part of the Society Pass ecosystem.

Maxim also highlighted the successful track record of SoPa Chairman and CEO, Dennis Nguyen in building out and selling businesses in China and Southeast Asia.

Dennis Nguyen, CEO of Society Pass said "The publication of this report is another exciting milestone for Society Pass so soon after our IPO. Investors continue to have a positive view of the Southeast Asian investment opportunity and this report will bring greater awareness and understanding to the market of our plans to build Southeast Asia's fastest growing ecommerce and loyalty ecosystem."

About Society Pass

Society Pass is a loyalty and data marketing ecosystem that operates multiple e-commerce and lifestyle platforms across its key markets. Its business model focuses on collecting user data through the expected circulation of its universal loyalty points. It seamlessly connects consumers and merchants across multiple product and service categories fostering organic loyalty. Since its inception, SoPa has amassed over 1.6 million registered consumers and over 3,500 registered merchants/brands on its platform. It has since invested 2+ years building proprietary IT architecture with cutting edge components to effectively scale and support its Platform's consumers, merchants, and acquisitions.

Society Pass provides merchants with #HOTTAB Biz - a convenient order management app for business partners on SoPa.asia, and #HOTTAB POS - a specialized POS technology solution, a comprehensive system for payment, loyal customer management, user's profile analytics, and convenient financial support packages for small and medium-sized enterprises. All tools offered above will allow businesses to attract and retain customers through personalized interaction based on analytics with a high profit margin.

In addition, SoPa operates Leflair.com, Vietnam's leading lifestyle e-commerce platform, Pushkart.ph, a popular grocery delivery company in Philippines, and Handycart.vn, a leading online restaurant delivery service based in Hanoi, Vietnam. For more information, please check out: https://thesocietypass.com/

Media contact
PRecious Communications for SoPa
[email protected]

Copyright 2022 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. www.acnnewswire.comSociety Pass Incorporated (SoPa)(Nasdaq: "SOPA"), Southeast Asia's fastest growing loyalty and ecommerce ecosystem today, announced that Maxim Group LLC (Maxim) has announced that they have initiated equity research of SoPa and published their initial Equity Research Report, dated February 24, 2022.

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