Season 2 | Part 2 : The AR Minute With Nathan C - Demystifying the Metaverse with Real Conversations from AWE EU 2022

Season 2 | Part 2. Episode 24 Avi Bar-Zeev, founder of Reality Prime (realityprime.com), shares your excitement for the #metaverse, but he’s got 30 years of learnings and “bludgeonings,” from shipping some of the most lauded #XR products, that he hopes can save you from future product pain points. By sharing his perspective and lessons learned along the way, Bar-Zeev seeks to make a more #ethical ...

Season 2 | Part 2. Episode 23 Joanna Hadfield, of the Global Digital Fashion Awards sees the metaverse as an exciting opportunity to combine many of her passions, talents, and experiences from the fashion and filmmaking industries. She’s leaning into this joy and opportunity by creating the Global Digital Fashion Awards (www.globaldigitalfashionawards.com)—and our Nathan C is rapt and here for eve...

Season 2 | Part 2. Episode 22 Ani Manjavidze, Co-founder & CEO, Crosscreators sees a better future through augmented reality #AR and assures us that AR “won’t take you away from the world you’re in, but it will enhance and improve the things you love.” For this #BossWomanOfTheMetaverse AR marketing aligns perfectly with Gen Z’s and Alpha’s digital curiosity and desire for connection while simultan...

Season 2 | Part 2. Episode 21 | Muki Kulhan, Muki International. It’s hard to say if Muki Kulhan is the metaverse’s most enthusiastic skeptic or its most skeptical enthusiast. Either way, she’s ready to roll up her sleeves and do the hard work to build “the kind of metaverse we all want to go to.” Kulhan shies away from using the “M word,” because “we aren’t there yet when it comes to experience a...

Season 2 | Part 2. Episode 20 - António Baía Reis, Phd, VR artist. The potential of the metaverse, a virtual world layered and merged with our ‘regular-verse’ is an entirely new scale of idea we’ve never thought of before. To get there we need to leverage all the expertise and subject matter experts (SMEs) from a wide ecosystem of thoughts, experiences, and skills. How do the age-old artforms of a...

Season 2 | Part 2. Episode 17 - As a Solution Engineer for one of the largest business services providers, Salesforce, Bodine Beentjes is accustomed to breaking large problems down into business goals and actionable steps. Coupled with her extensive work building XR community as a Chapter President of the VRAR Association (VRARA) Netherlands, she’s got a unique perspective on how the worlds of imm...

Season 2 | Part 2. Episode 18 The future of computing and immersive computing will start with something we all know quite well, the web. For Wonderland Engine Founder and CEO, Jonathan Hale, nearly all of the complex questions about metaverse technologies can be answered with a simple, reliable framework—that the internet’s access, affordability, and control will continue to be at the core of our ...

Season 2 | Part 2, Episode 16. Like many people working in the metaverse, Amir Baradaran found inspiration in an early, creative experience in augmented reality (AR) and became a founder when he encountered pain points that limited his creative expression in the medium. Creating large-scale interactive artworks taught Amir the power of AR storytelling and the pains of XR development. While the out...

Season 2 | Part 2 | Episode 19 For the multi-hyphenate XR strategist, journalist, and artist Cecilia Lascialfari, the metaverse is full of opportunities that build on the best parts of being human—building connections, exploring the world with curiosity, making art, and sharing our unique cultures. As the founder of ARea6DoF ( https://area6dof.com), an online journal, Cece seeks to build bridges b...