The Importance of a Metaverse in Virtual Reality (VR)

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Why do we need to build all these immersive experiences inside one world? Because right now i think, the current stage of vr. And there are educational resources and v re, but they exist as separate aps. How important is it to host all f these education or commercial or game use cases in one unified virtual world, versus a lot of different aps on a store? Ye. I love to kind of a dive deeper into this, why we're building a metaverse here? Because i don't doubt the importance or the impact of having very immersive experiences through vr. But i do think the argument for meta is slightly separate. So i left to kind of dive, dive

Popular metaverse projects like Sandbox and Decentraland are trading > 80% lower than their previous all-time highs - are metaverses still the future?

Webaverse is an open-sourced metaverse that enables creators and communities to build their own virtual worlds and rich experiences which they truly own.

In this episode, co-founder of Webaverse, Ahad shares with us:

What is a metaverse and what is it trying to replace?
The importance of an interoperable metaverse
Upcoming Webaverse experience - Upstreet
Webaverse’s strategy to bootstrap 100k users

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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(00:00:00) – Introduction

(00:01:58) – What is a Metaverse?

(00:04:13) – Epic Games vs Apple In a Legal Battle

(00:05:50) – Web 1, Web 2 and Web 3

(00:09:07) – What is Webaverse Trying To Replace

(00:14:47) – Importance of Interoperable Metaverse Instead of Silos

(00:27:12) – Difference Between Metaverses & Social Games Like Club Penguin

(00:30:27) – How to and Who Will Be The 1st To Achieve 100K Users

(00:37:12) – Chicken and Egg Problem Of Metaverses

(00:40:38) – Webaverse’s Strategy to Bootstrap Community

(00:43:33) – Partnering with NFT Projects

(00:46:46) – Webaverse as a Business

(00:48:23) – Experiences Available on Webaverse Today

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