In Hermosa Beach, CA, 33-year-old James Roland Jones has built a working plasma gun, which he intends to sell on his website.  The former SpaceX engineer, and employee of Elon Musk, has put his ingenuity to the test to see if he can accomplish something that has never been done. The first prototypes are complete, and the site is live and accepting orders, but what sparked such a unique idea?

Where did you come up with this idea?
In 2018, I ended up getting one of Elon Musk’s flamethrowers for the Boring Company.  The flamethrower was certainly a fun toy, and whenever friends would visit, we would inevitably get out the flamethrower.  After a while, I got tired of playing with the flamethrower and wanted to make something even cooler.  I had seen people on YouTube make “plasma guns” online, but all their guns looked like they had been made from a home improvement store.  I knew I could make something better.

How long did it take you to make the first version? 
It took me a while to find the right supplies and materials to handle the temperatures the gun produced.  Unlike the flamethrower, I wasn’t just modifying a roofing torch, I was starting from scratch.  I tried to use existing products at first, but nothing really looked right and could handle the heat of the MAP gas.  I melted a few designs at first, but after about 3 months I had something that worked.  It needed a lot of refinement and still did not have the sleek style I was going for.  Then I discovered 3D printing, and this changed the game for me.  I started designing custom sections, and eventually, I redesigned the whole thing.  I took some of my experience at SpaceX and simplified the design as best as I could.  I also optimized the top portion to get the loudest bang and best plasma ball expelled out the front. 

Is the plasma gun available to buy now?
I have a working prototype that I am selling as I get orders. I set up a website; realplasmagun.com, and people can order from there.  The current design works well, but I need to lower my cost on the current design, I’m selling it for a minimal profit now.  I hope to scale up the idea and get it so I can sell a lot more than I can now.  

The project was a lot of fun, and great to put my engineering skills to good use.  The plasma gun is certainly more fun than the flamethrower, and people are always shocked to see it in action.  It’s visually stunning and very loud!  I’m happy with my final product, and it will be tough to make something cooler than this.

As a former SpaceX engineer, James Roland Jones knows it takes a lot to launch a successful product.  Working for one of the top engineering titans in the world, Elon Musk, James was able to absorb some of the methodologies that make SpaceX successful.  Many of the design decisions were the same approach to design that SpaceX uses today.  It may not be rocket science but making plasma guns is certainly a blast!
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James Roland Jones says Artificial Intelligence will be critical support for a metaverse, facilitating the ease of people's access to digital environments, and helping to generate content and interact between human and virtual worlds. The use of AI enhances the experiences users have via the digital environment, as well as helps with content generation and communication between humans and virtual worlds. 
The Metaverse will utilize Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) combined with Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, in order to build scalable and accurate virtual worlds. Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has announced Metaverse. A Metaverse is defined as a vast virtual space in which users interact in a sophisticated way with three-dimensional digital objects, as well as virtual three-dimensional avatars of one another, simulating the real world. The metaverse is composed of interconnected, decentralized virtual reality worlds in which individuals (or their avatars) can do almost everything that they can in the physical world. 
At its most comprehensive, the Metaverse would consist of a number of decentralized, interconnected virtual worlds, complete with fully functioning economies, where people can do just about anything they do in the physical world. Because it is a virtual medium, The Metaverse will rely on artificial intelligence in a number of aspects, such as content analysis, speech processing, computer vision, and others. An AI supercomputer will also be critical for developing the next-generation AI models, it will be powering Metaverse, and will be a base on which the technology of future metaverses could build. AI will also be used to analyze and in real-time process massive amounts of data generated by users activities in Facebook/Metas Metaverse each second, in order to enable other use cases. 
By combining various technologies such as virtual reality, 3D animation, blockchain, and several others, a number of companies are already working to build services for Metaverse. The Metaverse has given the actual people the platform to build their own replicas and interact with a virtual world in order to experiment with far more advanced services. With Meta (formerly Facebook) doing everything it can to get people comfortable with this new technology, metaverse has become an area of discussion around the globe. Metaverses will utilize Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) together with Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in order to build this virtual world. 
James Roland Jones added, In 2022, a metaverse could utilize virtual reality and AR technologies to provide users an experience similar to the storyline followed in sci-fi novels. From large-scale world-building and simulation, virtual environments for testing robots/autonomous artificial intelligence, and voice AI technologies, the technology by NVIDIA is a great example of how AI will be critical to creating the digital spaces where the Metaverses social interactions take place. AI is already helping human moderators to eavesdrop on and scrutinize suspect behavior; these checks will only grow more extensive in the metaverse. In the Metaverse, thanks to AI, these NPCs, or single colleagues, will have an entirely new look, performing shrewder activities, and undoubtedly trickier tasks.
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James Roland Jones is a journalist going inside SpaceX, Blue Origin, and all things spaces to understand what makes these companies so exciting. Elon Musk leads as an engineer for SpaceX, and James Roland Jones seeks to understand why he's able to create some of the top technology in the space industry. As a fan and a journalist, he wants to bring the best perspective for people to understand what it takes to engineer the rockets at SpaceX, Blue Origin, and others. James Roland Jones comes from Hermosa Beach, CA, and studied engineering and journalism at UCLA in California. He seeks to show what the inside of these companies look like, and what makes them so great.

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