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 between the tech community in Italy and the rest of the world. Here she posts articles about XR, AI powered art making, and shares technology inspired stories that dive into and share her passion for cultural exchange.
To truly get the benefits from this cultural exchange and the power of today’s advances in spatial computing, Cecilia encourages us to keep an open, curious mind to the possibilities of technology and to the needs of the people in it.
This openness that Cece strives for also includes being open to the distinct needs of the people around the world who will use these tools. If the metaverse is to be a place where people from all over the world can come together to interact, play, create art, and connect—we need those diverse voices to help guide the development of these tools.
Cecilia and Nathan C find a lot of common ground discussing Cecilia’s video series, Flying into the Metaverse with Books and Culture, where she talks with people around the world to learn about how books and culture drive and color their work in the metaverse. Did we just get a little meta-metaverse having and XR interviewer interviewed on The AR Minute? The Flying into the Metaverse… series can be found at www.youtube.com/@CeciliaLascialfariARea6DoF.
Along with co-founder Antony Vitillo, another XR journalist, Cecelia organizes the AWE Nite Florence meetup group that fosters their AR and VR community locally, and streams the content around the glove on AWE’s platform for metaverse content and community — awe.live.
This fearless #BossWomanOfTheMetaverse is always looking to push the boundaries of what is possible. Sometimes that’s using artificial intelligence (AI) to create artworks and other times it’s conducting her first English language interview on The AR Minute—which we are so grateful for.
Keep an eye on this powerful XR communicator and community maven, but if you blink you might just miss the next spatial computing trend she’s diving into.