The buzzword of the year is the metaverse and rightfully so considering the drastic digital life changing innovations poised to permeate our lives with AR and VR, but what role will WordPress have if any in this strange and exciting new world?

In this episode of PressThis we interview Anthony Burchell of WP Engine who is on the bleeding edge of connecting WordPress to the metaverse. Anthony’s accolades in this area include using WordPress to power experiences in VR based WordCamps during the pandemic to more recent experiments leveraging 3DWeb components in a WordPress context.

Anthony shares his thoughts on what the metaverse is, what the web looks like / could look like with 3DWeb, and his thoughts on WordPress’ strengths for being a powerful tool as part of your metaverse toolkit.

If you’re getting a bit bored building 2D websites and are curious about our 3D future, don’t miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!