Today’s article is going to be a little bit different than usual. Aside from regular news on AI, VR, Crypto, and Robotics, we’ll also be including an entire breakdown on how to create short form video content with AI.

If you want to see a YouTube video breakdown, click the link below:

»How To Create Short Form Video Content with AI (in 4 Simple Steps)

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Today’s Menu

• Meta Will Continue Making Its Own Quest Headsets

• Hollywood Starts AI Cloning

• BTC Halving (Uneventful)

• Serve Robotics Goes Public

• How To Make Short Form Video Content From End to End with AI

TODAY IN VR

^{Meta Will Continue Making Its Own Quest Headsets}

Meta made a big announcement earlier today saying its Quest Operating system (which they rebranded to Meta Horizon OS), would be the software basis for its headsets that will be built by third parties.

Companies like Asus and Lenovo will be building headsets with this same operating system.

The way it’s shaping up is that Quest will be Meta’s headset line and Horizon will be its software platform.

The Meta Horizon OS software is only available to these selected partners for the time being.

TODAY IN AI

Hollywood Begins AI Cloning

CAA (one of the leading Hollywood talent agencies) unleashed a new initiative called “CAA Vault.”

Basically this allows top A-lister’s to start creating full-scale AI clones of themselves to open up new opportunities.

It isn’t just going to be a face clone like the one I shot in this video…

Instead this is going to be full-body AI scans.

Tyler Perry has already been talking a ton about the role of AI in the future of film. This is another big move for the space.

TODAY IN CRYPTO

BTC Halving

Despite the thousands of times you probably refreshed Coingecko over the weekend…

The BTC halving was relevantly uneventful. BTC still sits at $66,000 and has not changed much at all over the last few days. ETH is still just slightly above $3,000.

If you’re not familiar with the BTC halving, it’s basically an event that cuts the daily flow of new BTC entering the market…as you probably guessed…in half.

Historically prices have risen substantially in the 1-6 months following the BTC halving.

Although that hasn’t come true yet, it’s only been 3 days (be patient).

TODAY IN ROBOTICS

Serve Robotics Goes Public

Serve Robotics has officially begun to trade on the Nasdaq as of this week.

Serve is backed by Uber and NVIDIA. It has developed advanced, AI-powered, low-emissions sidewalk delivery robots that help to make deliveries sustainable and affordable.

They plan to expand upon their deliveries with Ubereats over the coming year.

I’ve already been seeing a ton of these robot delivery drivers here in Brickell over the past year. It’s pretty scary how they’re able to navigate the tumultuous threat posed by psychotic Miami drivers.

The Future

How To Make Short Form Video Content From End to End with AI:

I have FINALLY pieced together how to make unlimited amounts of short form video content from end to end using strictly AI (and after reading this short article, you’ll be able to do the same).

Short form video seems to be the direction that most social media platforms are headed.

YouTube is pushing shorts. 

IG is pushing reels.

TikTok’s entire platform is short form video.

(I’m not on LinkedIn but I’ve heard that LinkedIn is rolling out short form video capabilities as well).

Short form video is a skillset in itself (and a great one to add to your arsenal).  

I’ve dropped several posts over the last few months related to this topic, but in today’s article I want to integrate everything together so that you can see it from end to end.

There’s 4 main pieces to make this work:

1. Custom GPT

2. Heygen

3. Eleven Labs

4. Captions

First and foremost - you’re going to want to create a personal custom GPT for yourself.

This custom GPT is going to be used to make content in your own voice based on your expertise.

Using the custom GPT, you can knock out unlimited amounts of content for yourself. 

I’ll drop a link in the comments to a previous article where I explained how to create custom GPT’s.

Some of you may like writing your own content (I personally prefer to do so). 

However, I will say from several years of experience that consistently doing content every single day can be difficult to maintain. 

Especially as your business ramps up and things get crazy.

Writing the content for short form video is the most time-consuming part of the process.

Using a few basic prompts, you can spit out IG reel scripts in seconds that are in your voice after you’ve set up your custom GPT.

Plus you can use your custom GPT to create captions for the video as well.

Second:

You’re going to use Heygen to create a custom video avatar of yourself.

I’ve tried a few different custom video platforms and I personally find Heygen to be the best one.

It’s not perfect by any means, but it’s pretty good and it’s only going to improve with time.

After you’ve completed the IG reel script inside your custom GPT, you’re going to feed it into your Heygen avatar to create the video.

This is great for 30 second IG reels, talking head TikTok’s, and other content of this sort.

Third:

You’re going to use Eleven Labs to do custom audio of yourself.

You want to use the professional account ($22/mo) to create this audio format that speaks in your voice.

Then you’re going to set up an API with Heygen.

That way your Heygen avatar will immediately apply the custom audio onto the avatar and speak in your voice.

(although Heygen has custom audio, it’s not the greatest. Eleven Labs has a much better product and setting up the integration is very simple).

Lastly:

You’re going to use the Captions app to put captions onto the video and make it stand out on social media. 

You simply download the video from Heygen (I’d recommend using the landscape video rather than portrait). 

Then you’re going to upload the video into the captions app.

The captions app will automatically put eye-catching subtitles and captions onto your video.

From here you should be good to go.

I’ll drop a video walkthrough in the comments so you can check it out.

I’m personally very excited about using this to grow an IG page for myself and I think that this will cut out an enormous amount of time.

Have you been able to create short form AI video content for yourself?

Shoot me a reply back.

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Thanks for reading!

Until next time,

Damon