Welcome to Into the Metaverse, in this week’s episode, Yon welcomes Charlie Fink to the podcast. Charlie writes the weekly Forbes column "This Week in XR" and co-hosts its companion podcast. He is the author of the critically acclaimed AR-enabled books Charlie Fink’s Metaverse (2017), and Convergence, How The World Will Be Painted With Data (2019). His career spans impactful stops at Disney, AOL, American Greetings, and more.

During their conversation, Charlie gives Yon the overview of his career and how it led to his interest and writing on the metaverse, before the two dive into how to define the metaverse today, the different generations of tech each generation of humans have had to work with and its implications on them, the future of devices and hardware, and much more.

Yon will be appearing on Charlie’s podcast in the near future, so be on the lookout for that to get more of this riveting conversation!

Chapters

Charlie’s Career and Discovery of the Metaverse (00:25)
Defining the Metaverse for the Next Decade (15:03)
The Generations of Tech and its Users (24:31)
Future of Devices and Hardware (37:25)
Most Exciting Thing in Year Ahead (41:45)

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