Making the Metaverse

Hi! I'm Michael Carter and my guest today on Making the Metaverse is Federico Carpi, an Argentinian musician and NFT artist living in Poland. Under the name Huxley Sun, Federico writes, records and performs as a musician offering an indie-folk sound that is delivered at a slow pace with a contemplative style. Federico also creates NFT artwork in a unique visual aesthetic. His NFT project offers co...

My guest today is Piers Ridyard, CEO of RDX Works, core developers of Radix, the first layer one protocol for DeFi that started from the problem of how to decentralize the $400 trillion global economy and worked backwards. Piers has been in the blockchain space from the very beginning. Today, he shares a historical perspective on DeFi, talks about his vision for the future and illustrates the role...

Max Sheika is a Ukrainian 3D artist and architect. His recent work has been dedicated to generating support for the people of Ukraine. This includes a special collaboration with Spatial.io through sales of his Metaverse design known as the Peace Pavillion. They also donate 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of his recreation of the Independence Monument, a collaboration with @polycount dire...

My guests today on Making the Metaverse are Wilfred Lee and Sardwell who are working together on a phygital project called Renisis. Renisis is a multidimensional world that takes you to another place, physically and emotionally, providing superpowers to be stronger and present your best self. It combines fine jewelry crafted by Sardwell with sounds and AI generated artwork created by Wilfred. Work...

My guest today is Dennison Bertram, an avid futurist, artist and serial entrepreneur with a keen eye for the future of technology and its social impacts. He is an early block-chain technologist having founded the first Bitcoin Exchange for Czech Crowns (BuyBTC.cz), a technologically advanced physical bitcoin wallet (Aeternum Key-Vault), and a PayPal like digital currency wallet (Terrawallet). Denn...

Creator of HOLOHEADZ & Co-developer of the HOLOVERSE an amazing metaverse platform Eljan is an italian digital artist, born in 2001 who has worked on digital art since he was in high school. His main goal is to create timeless, astounding NFTs that aim to connect people from all over the world and help them build relationships with other collectors & investors. His goal is to create an imm...

Iana is a digital fashion designer. She moved to Europe three years ago after graduating in theoretical and applied linguistics in Moscow. After five years in the field of intercultural communication she decided to find her actual passion and purpose. During that period of her life, she and her Dutch fiancee decided to see the world and to travel across Europe. They've traveled to Sweden and lived...

Sourav Deb is co-owner of Guerrilla Music and a thought leader in the Web3 space. Sourav and his partner have successfully built a socially conscious company that exists on the blockchain but is focused on growth in the real world.  Through Guerrilla Music they have initiatives like the Color the Blockchain campaign. They hold free online courses to onboard people who want to learn but haven’...

Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Metaverse Minting Debacle – Gas fees, Twitter taunts, broken records and the promise of brighter days Yuga Labs finds itself on the otherside in more ways than one as they suffer blowback from the community for wasting gas, costing buyers a mint to mint, and ‘saying no big deal’ after many wallets were left holding an empty bag. What’s all the fuss about? Why is everyone ‘ap...

Very excited to share this podcast featuring a very special guest, Daniel Liebeskind. He is the co-founder and CEO of Topia, a platform for creative visual experiences that inspire authentic human connection. From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, Daniel’s mission is to foster human connection through technology. He has been building offline communities his whole life and originally became an entrepr...

Privacy in the metaverse will be interesting. In this episode I develop a privacy spectrum for social media platforms and then consider how this range of privacy expectations could play a role in making the metaverse.  Shout out to my new friends over at Feedspot. They have included the show on their new list of the 25 best metaverse podcasts in the history of the universe. Check them out at...

026 - Metaverse creators say Meta is greedy. Lego and Fortnite maker Epic Games partner to create a metaverse that is safe for children. Gather offices go to the dogs and new metaverse platform Topia.io is gaining attention.

How does The Rock bring 200 million of his closest friends to the metaverse? He doesn't. In this episode I ruminate about the consequences of the physical and temporal limitations of the metaverse and mention the first-ever Hospital Foundation in the world to be put on the map of Decentraland. 

I review Gather, Decentraland and Spatial giving my comments on things like cost, immersion and collaboration.

Flying Fox CEO and Co-Founder Charlotte Wise joins me to day to talk about making the metaverse a space where people can learn about sustainability, conservation and blockchain. Their free play to learn app app is available for testing on mobile os. The team is currently building a play to earn and learn metaverse game using polygon technology. They currently have an amazing nft collection availab...

The metaverse is being made in Canada, eh?! It's metaverse fashion week and the NFT community sees a second chance for the space. Hope for philanthropy in the metaverse after picking up a copy of 'Bitcoin and the future of fundraising' by Anne Connely and Jason Shim. Shout out to my new friends over at Feedspot. They have included the show on their new list of the 25 best metaverse podcasts in the...

Today I take a tour of Decentraland and visit a building dedicated to Mario and his adventures, take a selfie on the red carpet for Metaverse Fashion Week, and stop by the Tokens.com building. Shout out to my new friends over at Feedspot. They have included the show on their new list of the 25 best metaverse podcasts in the history of the universe. Check them out at https://blog.feedspot.com/metav...

We are moving from social media pages to metaverse places for our online social lives. How will this migration impact the way we socialize virtually? In this podcast I consider the limits on metaverse gatherings that will ultimately require small and exclusive virtual places. 

The metaverse has the potential to change the social dynamics of virtual spaces. Instead of a page where largely asynchronous communication takes place, the metaverse is reintroduces much of our typical offline social dynamics. Space is limited. Presence must be maintained. Communication is in real time. Some of these elements are available on different social media platforms via live streaming an...

I've been talking a lot about what makes Gather awesome lately. Today I'm going to talk about why the immersive experience offered by other platforms like Decentraland will keep Gather's market share limited. 

I share my experiences with the Gather metaverse platform where I have opened my new virtual office and had a few meetings. 

Is the high ticket price of Decentraland worth paying when free platforms like Gather are available?

What are the bad things that we will be hearing about the metaverse? Much like the narratives we have heard about cryptocurrency in the mainstream media the metaverse will be subject to fear, uncertainty and drama. In this episode I run through a few concerns. 

Do all metaverse projects have to be build on a well know and expensive platform? Where do people go for onboarding in the metaverse? What does protesting look like in the metaverse? 

What effect do neighbours have on real estate in the Metaverse? Is it always a positive impact? What happens if someone builds their nightclub next door to your spa?