Building the Metaverse with Jon Radoff

Evo Heyning talk about intelligent ecosystems, virtual beings, artificial intelligence, AIs--as well as avatars, creativity and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).

In this episode of Building the Metaverse, Jon has a conversation with game designer, entrepreneur and neuroscientist Amy Jo Kim.  This episode focused on game development; this is a key episode to listen to if you're a game developer, but also helpful if you're building any metaverse application inspired by gaming. We discuss the solo-to-social trend; the "games as economies" trend, the tech...

Raph Koster is a legendary game designer behind Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies. In this episode, we discuss the metaverse, virtual worlds, governance, game economies, creativity and everything in between.

I discuss the creative platforms like Unity, Roblox and Unreal that are being used to construct the metaverse--and delve into the history of creative technologies overall.

What will you do in the metaverse? I discuss applications including games, esports, social activities, shopping, real estate, travel, education, training, fitness, live music, volumetric live-streaming and immersive theater.

This episode covers the major trends that are shaping the metaverse: digital identity (the mainstream adoption of virtual personas and items); the competition between open standards and closed platforms; artificial intelligence; cybernetics (AR, VR, neural, brain-computer interfaces); blockchain; low code and no code platforms; simulating reality; distributed networks.

In this first episode of "Building the Metaverse," Josh and Jon meet up to discuss what the metaverse is all about. Topics include: how it is the next generation of the Internet; the creator economy; the huge influence of games on what the metaverse is becoming; and the categories of companies who are working towards it.