
Welcome to the Metaverse
The Welcome to the Metaverse podcast is the no.1 place to learn about the metaverse and AI quickly and to stay ahead, with interviews from top industry leaders and the brightest minds in the space.
This podcast breaks it down simply so you can understand web3, crypto, NFTs, blockchain, ai, the metaverse and everything in-between. Come and join the community and learn how to position yourself for the future.
Latest episodes

Sep 1, 2022 • 35min
This Is How the Global Phenomenon of K-Pop Enters the Metaverse - Anicube with Zaf Chow of Animoca Brands
The Korean Entertainment industry is estimated to be worth around $30 billion. Bands like BTS sell out stadiums across the globe including in the US. BLACKPINK, a K-Pop girlband recently just won the first ever ‘Best Metaverse Performance’ award at the MTV VMAs.
On this week's episode of the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast, we dive into a project called Anicube, which is bringing K-Pop artists, fans and culture into the metaverse.
Anicube is a joint venture between Cube Entertainment and Animoca Brands, who are one of the biggest success stories in this space. Zaf Chow is our guest - Director of Digital Strategy and Partnerships at Animoca Brands and does an amazing job of introducing us to K-Pop and the Anicube project itself. This is a global movement and it's fascinating to see how NFTs can enhance the artist and fan relationship at such scale.
Say hello on Twitter @luke_franks or click to view or https://www.twitter.com/luke_franks
As always nothing in this episode is financial or investment advice but for informational purposes only.
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This podcast is sponsored by the awesome Everyrealm who are a leader in metaverse innovation, investment, and NFTs. They are among the largest owners of digital real estate NFTs in Decentraland, The Sandbox and Axie Infinity to name just a few.
They recently announced their new project 'The Row' - a members-only, master-planned real estate development designed by some of the best architects and artists in the world. The link is here (or head to therow.everyrealm.com) for you to request an invitation, one you do not want to miss out on.
You can find out more about what they are up to at everyrealm.com, join their substack newsletter with updates about the wider metaverse here realmroundup.substack.com and follow on twitter https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm and discord here discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
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I always love to hear from you, say hello on the following links! :
Twitter : https://twitter.com/luke_franks
LinkedIn Show Page : https://www.linkedin.com/company/82321971/
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Everyrealm's Links
YOUR INVITE TO THE ROW! -> therow.everyrealm.com
Twitter : https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm
Discord : discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
Soundlands : asmrsoundlands.com
Substack : realmroundup.substack.com
Website https://www.everyrealm.com
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Anicube links :
Website : https://www.anicube.com
Twitter : https://twitter.com/anicube_ent
Discord : discord.gg/anicube
Zaf Chow
Twitter : https://mobile.twitter.com/zafchow
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/zafchow/
Animoca Brands
Website : https://www.animocabrands.com/
Twitter : https://mobile.twitter.com/animocabrands
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Aug 25, 2022 • 46min
The Incredible Success of Zed Run (Digital Horse Racing) & The Future of Metaverse Entertainment with Co-creator Chris Ebeling
Chris Ebeling is the Co-creator of Zed Run - a digital horse racing game & ecosystem that uses blockchain and NFTs to give users ownership of their digital horses. Players can buy, breed, race, sell and soon lend their horses just like in the real world but digitally in the metaverse.
The OG project has seen incredible success with over 3 million races and over $40 million paid out in race prizes. On this episode of the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast, I talk to Chris Ebeling - (Co-creator of Zed Run and Co-Founder of Virtually Human Studios) about the journey so far and what else they are working on - including their latest project Human Park
Chris, himself has over 15 years of experience as a world-class animator, creative director, writer and digital artist, across the movie and games industries. He’s worked on Hollywood blockbusters like The Lego Movies, The Great Gatsby, Gods of Egypt and many more.
It was an absolute pleasure to have Chris on the show, a super smart mind and a lovely guy. This was a very valuable episode, one I thoroughly enjoyed and know you will too!
Say hello on Twitter @luke_franks or click to view or https://www.twitter.com/luke_franks
As always nothing in this episode is financial or investment advice but for informational purposes only.
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This podcast is sponsored by the awesome Everyrealm who are a leader in metaverse innovation, investment, and NFTs. They are among the largest owners of digital real estate NFTs in Decentraland, The Sandbox and Axie Infinity to name just a few.
They recently announced their new project 'The Row' - a members-only, master-planned real estate development designed by some of the best architects and artists in the world. The link is here (or head to therow.everyrealm.com) for you to request an invitation, one you do not want to miss out on.
You can find out more about what they are up to at everyrealm.com, join their substack newsletter with updates about the wider metaverse here realmroundup.substack.com and follow on twitter https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm and discord here discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
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I always love to hear from you, say hello on the following links! :
Twitter : https://twitter.com/luke_franks
LinkedIn Show Page : https://www.linkedin.com/company/82321971/
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Chris Ebeling links :
Website : https://www.chrisebeling.com/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/iamChrisEbeling
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisebeling/
Human Park Links
Website : https://humanpark.io/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/FreeHumanPark
Virtually Human Studio Links :
Website : https://www.vhslab.com/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/V_H_Studio
Zed Run Links
Website : https://zed.run/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/zed_run
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Everyrealm's Links
YOUR INVITE TO THE ROW! -> therow.everyrealm.com
Twitter : https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm
Discord : discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
Soundlands : asmrsoundlands.com
Substack : realmroundup.substack.com
Website https://www.everyrealm.com
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Aug 17, 2022 • 40min
This Is How You Create the Metaverse IP of the Future - Jenkins the Valet & more with Tally Labs co-founders SAFA & Valet Jones
Meet Jenkins the Valet, a bored ape who is signed to major Hollywood agency CAA, has a book written by 10x New York Times best selling author Neil Strauss and is about to embark on a whole new adventure to new world Azurbala.
On this week's episode of the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast, we meet the creative geniuses behind Jenkins the Valet alongside the incredible community they've built and vision for the future of IP in this space. Valet Jones and SAFA are the pseudonymous founders of Tally Labs, the parent company, whose latest extension of the story is an incredible new world called Azurbala.
I've tried to include something for all listeners on this episode, whether you are brand new to NFTs, familiar with this project or a participant/holder of it. I really loved this episode and have no doubt you'll enjoy this one too. Thank you SAFA and Valet Jones for coming on the show!
Say hello on Twitter @luke_franks or click to view here or https://www.twitter.com/luke_franks
As always nothing in this episode is financial or investment advice but for informational purposes only.
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This podcast is sponsored by the awesome Everyrealm who are a leader in metaverse innovation, investment, and NFTs. They are among the largest owners of digital real estate NFTs in Decentraland, The Sandbox and Axie Infinity to name just a few.
They recently announced their new project 'The Row' - a members-only, master-planned real estate development designed by some of the best architects and artists in the world. The link is here (or head to therow.everyrealm.com) for you to request an invitation, one you do not want to miss out on.
You can find out more about what they are up to at everyrealm.com, join their substack newsletter with updates about the wider metaverse here realmroundup.substack.com and follow on twitter https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm and discord here discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
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I always love to hear from you, say hello on the following links! :
Twitter : https://twitter.com/luke_franks
LinkedIn Show Page : https://www.linkedin.com/company/82321971/
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Tally Labs' links :
Tally Labs' Twitter : https://twitter.com/tallylabsnft
See Ape Follow Ape (SAFA) Twitter : https://twitter.com/seeapefollowape
Valet Jones Twitter : https://twitter.com/valetjones
Tally Labs Website : https://www.tallylabs.xyz/
Jenkins the Valet
Jenkins the Valet Twitter : https://twitter.com/jenkinsthevalet
Jenkins the Valet Website : https://www.jenkinsthevalet.com/
Jenkins the Valet Discord : discord.gg/xp3yMcJV3
Azurbala
Azurbala Website : https://www.azurbala.com/
Azurbala Twitter : https://twitter.com/azurbala
Azurbala Discord : discord.com/invite/azurbala
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Everyrealm's Links
YOUR INVITE TO THE ROW! -> therow.everyrealm.com
Twitter : https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm
Discord : discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
Soundlands : asmrsoundlands.com
Substack : realmroundup.substack.com
Website https://www.everyrealm.com
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Aug 11, 2022 • 25min
Win a Bored Ape (Yes Really) With Metaverse Gameshow - 'Internet Game' - Conversation w. CEO Jordan Lejuwaan
Think 'Squid Game' meets a web3 online game show where you could win a Bored Ape! This week on the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast, Jordan Lejuwaan - CEO of Internet Game is back on to tell us all about season 2 hosted by Gmoney and Leah Lamarr.
After the success of Internet Game season 1, where a $1.5 million dollar prize pool, including 2 bored ape's (+Azuki's, Doodles and more) were won by players who made it to the end, Internet Game returns with season 2.
I'm interested in this concept for a number of reasons - I think it's a very clever way to use NFTs and a signal for how this tech might be included in future content formats.
Disclosure : I do hold some Internet Game tokens and played Season 1, otherwise I have no affiliation with them. I’m just a fan of what they are building for the future of content in web3. Of course always do you own research, nothing in this podcast is investment advice but is for informational purposes only. This podcast is sponsored by Everyrealm.
Say hello on Twitter @luke_franks or click to view here or https://www.twitter.com/luke_franks
If you would like to support the show, a great way to do so is to leave a rating or review on your podcast platform of choice, thank you!
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This podcast is sponsored by the awesome Everyrealm who are a leader in metaverse innovation, investment, and NFTs. They are among the largest owners of digital real estate NFTs in Decentraland, The Sandbox and Axie Infinity to name just a few.
They recently announced their new project 'The Row' - a members-only, master-planned real estate development designed by some of the best architects and artists in the world. The link is here (or head to therow.everyrealm.com) for you to request an invitation, one you do not want to miss out on.
You can find out more about what they are up to at everyrealm.com, join their substack newsletter with updates about the wider metaverse here realmroundup.substack.com and follow on twitter https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm and discord here discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
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I always love to hear from you, say hello on the following links! :
Twitter : https://twitter.com/luke_franks
LinkedIn Show Page : https://www.linkedin.com/company/82321971/
Agency : www.wagmi-agency.com
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Everyrealm's Links
YOUR INVITE TO THE ROW! -> therow.everyrealm.com
Twitter : https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm
Discord : discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
Soundlands : asmrsoundlands.com
Substack : realmroundup.substack.com
Website https://www.everyrealm.com
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Jordan Lejuwaan's links :
Twitter : https://twitter.com/jlejuwaan
Website : https://lejuwaan.com/
The Internet Game
Website : internet.game
Twitter : https://twitter.com/internet__game
Discord : https://discord.gg/internet-game
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Aug 3, 2022 • 30min
This is How the Smart Money is Investing in the Metaverse in 2022 with Felix Hartmann - Hartmann Capital
This week on the Welcome to the Metaverse Podcast, I chat to Felix Hartmann, a long term crypto investor and Managing General Partner of Hartmann Capital.
In this episode we talk in depth about how institutional investment is approaching the metaverse and what trends Felix and his Metaverse Ventures Fund at Hartmann Capital are focussed on for the upcoming months.
This is a highly valuable episode in my opinion, especially in the current market conditions. I don't have a financial background myself so to understand how this side of the industry works and the difference between institutional capital allocation (vs. retail/normies) was fascinating.
Felix did a brilliantly job of making this episode accessible, whilst also saying some of the smartest things about the future of this space that I've heard on the show so far. This one is 100% worth listening to the end. Thanks Felix for coming on.
Say hello on Twitter @luke_franks or click to view here or https://www.twitter.com/luke_franks
As always nothing in this episode is financial or investment advice but for informational purposes only, always do your own research.
If you would like to support the show, a great way to do so is to leave a rating or review on your podcast platform of choice, thank you!
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This podcast is sponsored by the awesome Everyrealm who are a leader in metaverse innovation, investment, and NFTs. They are among the largest owners of digital real estate NFTs in Decentraland, The Sandbox and Axie Infinity to name just a few.
They recently announced their new project 'The Row' - a members-only, master-planned real estate development designed by some of the best architects and artists in the world. The link is here (or head to therow.everyrealm.com) for you to request an invitation, one you do not want to miss out on.
They also recently announced their upcoming immersive ASMR experience in the metaverse, called Soundlands, which you can be the first to sign up to before it launches in full by heading to asmrsoundlands.com
You can find out more about what they are up to at everyrealm.com, join their substack newsletter with updates about the wider metaverse here realmroundup.substack.com and follow on twitter https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm and discord here discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
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I always love to hear from you, say hello on the following links! :
Twitter : https://twitter.com/luke_franks
LinkedIn Show Page : https://www.linkedin.com/company/82321971/
Agency : www.wagmi-agency.com
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Hartmann Capital Links :
Hartmann Capital Website : https://hartmanncapital.com/
Hartmann Capital Metaverse Ventures Portfolio : https://hartmanncapital.com/metaverse-portfolio
Felix Hartmann Twitter : https://twitter.com/FelixOHartmann
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Everyrealm's Links
YOUR INVITE TO THE ROW! -> therow.everyrealm.com
Twitter : https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm
Discord : discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
Soundlands : asmrsoundlands.com
Substack : realmroundup.substack.com
Website https://www.everyrealm.com
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Jul 27, 2022 • 38min
How Does Motion Capture Work and Why is it Crucial for the Future of the Metaverse? with Remco Sikkema of Movella & Xsens
This week we are getting stuck into the fascinating world of motion capture in major movies, entertainment, sport and a variety of other use cases but crucially for the future of the metaverse.
Our guest on the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast is Remco Sikkema, Senior Marketing Communication Manager at Movella, a world leader in this industry who also make XSens motion capture suits, which we cover too.
Say hello on Twitter @luke_franks or click to view here or https://www.twitter.com/luke_franks
Remco does an awesome job of explaining the industry, how motion capture is used today, the opportunities available and how it will be essential for communication in the metaverse over the next few years. Thanks Remco for coming on! I’ve left his links in the show notes along with my own so do give him a follow, as he puts out awesome content too.
If you would like to support the show, a great way to do so is to leave a rating or review on your podcast platform of choice, thank you!
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This podcast is sponsored by the awesome Everyrealm (previously Republic Realm) who are a leader in metaverse innovation, investment, and NFTs. They are among the largest owners of digital real estate NFTs in Decentraland, The Sandbox and Axie Infinity to name just a few.
They’re also the creators of the Fantasy Islands metaverse NFT project, the ultra-luxury metaverse destination and community in The Sandbox and beyond.
They also recently announced their upcoming immersive ASMR experience in the metaverse, called Soundlands, which you can be the first to sign up to before it launches in full by heading to asmrsoundlands.com
You can find out more about what they are up to at everyrealm.com, join their substack newsletter with updates about the wider metaverse here realmroundup.substack.com and follow on twitter https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm and discord here discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
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I always love to hear from you, say hello on the following links! :
Twitter : https://twitter.com/luke_franks
LinkedIn Show Page : https://www.linkedin.com/company/82321971/
Agency : www.wagmi-agency.com
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Remco / Movella / XSens Links :
Remco Sikemma LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/rsikkema/
Movella Website : https://www.movella.com/
XSens Website: https://www.xsens.com/
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Everyrealm's Links
Twitter : https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm
Discord : discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
Soundlands : asmrsoundlands.com
Substack : realmroundup.substack.com
Website https://www.everyrealm.com
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Jul 20, 2022 • 38min
The Best Talent in the World Are Working On The Metaverse with Future House Studios - CEO Adam Sidwell
On this week’s episode of the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast, we’re focussing on how some of the best talent in the world from the film & video game industries are now working on building the metaverse.
Say hello on Twitter @luke_franks or click to view here or https://www.twitter.com/luke_franks
One team with the skills and talent to help do this is Future House Studios. Our guest this week is CEO Adam Sidwell, who has 2 decades of experience at some of the most well known VFX studios in the industry (the likes of Weta & ILM) and has worked on many major Hollywood films, from iRobot, to Lord of the Rings, Tron: Legacy and many more.
The team he has built there are also some of the highest calibre talent in the world and have a huge depth of experience, working across some of the most well-known entertainment and game franchises to date.
We also talk about a Ready Player One style hunt across the metaverse that they are building, which sounds unreal and is definitely worth keeping an eye out for.
Thank you very much to Adam for coming on the show, I’m looking forward to keeping a close eye out on what comes of Future House Studios.
If you would like to support the show, a great way to do so is to leave a rating or review on your podcast platform of choice, thank you!
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This podcast is sponsored by the awesome Everyrealm (previously Republic Realm) who are a leader in metaverse innovation, investment, and NFTs. They are among the largest owners of digital real estate NFTs in Decentraland, The Sandbox and Axie Infinity to name just a few.
They’re also the creators of the Fantasy Islands metaverse NFT project, the ultra-luxury metaverse destination and community in The Sandbox and beyond.
They also recently announced their upcoming immersive ASMR experience in the metaverse, called Soundlands, which you can be the first to sign up to before it launches in full by heading to asmrsoundlands.com
You can find out more about what they are up to at everyrealm.com, join their substack newsletter with updates about the wider metaverse here realmroundup.substack.com and follow on twitter https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm and discord here discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
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I always love to hear from you, say hello on the following links! :
Twitter : https://twitter.com/luke_franks
LinkedIn Show Page : https://www.linkedin.com/company/82321971/
Agency : www.wagmi-agency.com
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Future House Links :
Adam Sidwell : https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-sidwell-b903091/
Future House Studios Website : https://www.futurehousestudios.com/
Future House Studios Twitter : https://twitter.com/FutureHouseStu1
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Everyrealm's Links
Twitter : https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm
Discord : discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
Soundlands : asmrsoundlands.com
Substack : realmroundup.substack.com
Website https://www.everyrealm.com
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Jul 14, 2022 • 27min
The Next Major Play and Earn Title (Life Beyond) and Web3 Gaming Opportunities with Vincent Marty of Darewise (Sub. Animoca Brands)
On this week’s episode of the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast, we’re diving deeper into the world of web3 gaming - a bubbling new entire ecosystem full of opportunities. Now is a great time to be learning and paying attention to the best projects in the space.
Say hello on Twitter @luke_franks or click to view here or https://www.twitter.com/luke_franks
Our guest this week is the excellent Vincent Marty - Product & Marketing Director at Darewise, who are an awesome game studio and a subsidiary of one of the biggest success stories in this space Animoca Brands.
If you are new to this world and this podcast, welcome along, great to have you. I’d recommend just jumping back to 9th February on the episode list, to check out the previous chat with CEO of Animoca Brands Robby Yung - he was brilliant and it will help give you some context for the major shift that is happening and some fundamentals for this chat.
In this episode with Vincent, we catch-up on the general landscape and get stuck into Darewise’s awesome new play-and-earn title called Life Beyond, which you can check out now in open Alpha - links in the show notes.
If you would like to support the show, a great way to do so is to leave a rating or review on your podcast platform of choice, thank you!
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This podcast is sponsored by the awesome Everyrealm (previously Republic Realm) who are a leader in metaverse innovation, investment, and NFTs. They are among the largest owners of digital real estate NFTs in Decentraland, The Sandbox and Axie Infinity to name just a few.
They’re also the creators of the Fantasy Islands metaverse NFT project, the ultra-luxury metaverse destination and community in The Sandbox and beyond.
They also recently announced their upcoming immersive ASMR experience in the metaverse, called Soundlands, which you can be the first to sign up to before it launches in full by heading to asmrsoundlands.com
You can find out more about what they are up to at everyrealm.com, join their substack newsletter with updates about the wider metaverse here realmroundup.substack.com and follow on twitter https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm and discord here discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
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I always love to hear from you, say hello on the following links! :
Twitter : https://twitter.com/luke_franks
LinkedIn Show Page : https://www.linkedin.com/company/82321971/
Agency : www.wagmi-agency.com
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Darewise and Life Beyond links
Play Life Beyond Open Alpha : https://www.playlifebeyond.com/
Darewise Website : https://www.darewise.com/
Darewise Twitter : https://twitter.com/Darewise
Vincent Marty Twitter : https://twitter.com/Vincemarty
Animoca Brands Twitter : https://twitter.com/animocabrands
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Everyrealm's Links
Twitter : https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm
Discord : discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
Soundlands : asmrsoundlands.com
Substack : realmroundup.substack.com
Website https://www.everyrealm.com
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Jul 6, 2022 • 37min
Epic Games' Vision for the Future of the Metaverse with Rachel Stones - Business Development Manager at Epic Games Innovation Lab
On this week’s episode of the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast, I talk to one of the biggest companies building the future of the metaverse - Epic Games. Rachel Stones is a Business Development Manager at Epic Games.
This conversation was one of my absolute favourites so far. Epic Games, as I’m sure you are aware, have been building in this space probably longer than anyone and I would argue have been paramount in bringing the whole concept of the metaverse to life.
To be able to sit down with Rachel and really understand Epic’s vision for the future was really fun and absolutely invaluable.
We of course cover Fortnite and some developments there, plus delve into the whole pipeline of products and tools in the Epic Games ecosystem that are being used to build this immersive and hyper-realistic future that is coming. It’s going to get very interesting very quickly in my opinion, I left this interview both genuinely mindblown and really excited for what is to come.
Thank you to Rachel for coming on the show, she was awesome and I’d highly recommend you listen to this one in full, there’s a lot of cool stuff in this episode!
My twitter has moved, click to view here or https://www.twitter.com/luke_franks
If you would like to support the show, a great way to do so is to leave a rating or review on your podcast platform of choice, thank you!
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This podcast is sponsored by the awesome Everyrealm (previously Republic Realm) who are a leader in metaverse innovation, investment, and NFTs. They are among the largest owners of digital real estate NFTs in Decentraland, The Sandbox and Axie Infinity to name just a few.
They’re also the creators of the Fantasy Islands metaverse NFT project, the ultra-luxury metaverse destination and community in The Sandbox and beyond.
They also recently announced their upcoming immersive ASMR experience in the metaverse, called Soundlands, which you can be the first to sign up to before it launches in full by heading to asmrsoundlands.com
You can find out more about what they are up to at everyrealm.com, join their substack newsletter with updates about the wider metaverse here realmroundup.substack.com and follow on twitter https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm and discord here discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
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I always love to hear from you, say hello on the following links! :
Twitter : https://twitter.com/luke_franks
Email : metaversepod@gmail.com
Consultancy : www.wagmi-agency.com
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Epic Games' links
Epic Games Store : https://store.epicgames.com/
Keep up to date with Epic Games news : https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/news
Learning Resources for Unreal Engine and more : https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/learn
Epic Games Twitter : https://twitter.com/EpicGames
Epic Games Instagram : https://instagram.com/epicgames
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Everyrealm's Links
Twitter : https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm
Discord : discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
Soundlands : asmrsoundlands.com
Substack : realmroundup.substack.com
Website https://www.everyrealm.com
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Jun 30, 2022 • 34min
How Web3 Gaming Will Onboard the Next Wave of Users with Michael Le (50M Followers on Tiktok) and Robin Defay - Co-founders of Joystick
On this week’s episode of the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast, we’re diving back into the web3 play and earn gaming space.
As you’ll likely know by now if you’ve been listening to the podcast, there is a big fundamental movement around digital ownership in games, allowing players to own, level up and trade their in-game items as NFTs, enabling full game economies.
Gaming is the biggest entertainment industry on the planet and it’s a really clear use of NFTs but also this category of web3 gaming is in its infancy and games, especially good, fun games, by their very nature take time to build.
On this episode I chat to Michael Le aka justmaiko, a TikTok creator with over 50 million subscribers and over 10 billion views along with tech entrepreneur Robin Defay, who together are the co-founders of Joystick - a platform which provides education, content and access to gaming assets for players to use and keep 100% of their revenue whilst doing so, which is an interesting model.
I really enjoyed this conversation and web3 gaming is undoubtedly a major trend and movement that is coming, so it’s something we’ll continue to revisit and stay updated on.
My twitter has moved, click to view here or https://www.twitter.com/luke_franks
If you’re brand new to this podcast, I would encourage you to jump back to episode 2 just to get an introduction to this whole space, we talk in depth about NFTs in this episode so you might find it useful to have some foundational knowledge first.
If you would like to support the show, a great way to do so is to leave a rating or review on your podcast platform of choice, thank you!
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This podcast is sponsored by the awesome Everyrealm (previously Republic Realm) who are a leader in metaverse innovation, investment, and NFTs. They are among the largest owners of digital real estate NFTs in Decentraland, The Sandbox and Axie Infinity to name just a few.
They’re also the creators of the Fantasy Islands metaverse NFT project, the ultra-luxury metaverse destination and community in The Sandbox and beyond.
They also recently announced their upcoming immersive ASMR experience in the metaverse, called Soundlands, which you can be the first to sign up to before it launches in full by heading to asmrsoundlands.com
You can find out more about what they are up to at everyrealm.com, join their substack newsletter with updates about the wider metaverse here realmroundup.substack.com and follow on twitter https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm and discord here discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
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I always love to hear from you, say hello on the following links :
Twitter : https://twitter.com/luke_franks
Email : metaversepod@gmail.com
Consultancy : www.wagmi-agency.com
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Mona's links
Joystick Twitter : https://twitter.com/joystickpros
Joystick Website : https://joystickgames.com/
Michael Le Twitter : https://twitter.com/justmaiko
Robin DeFay Twitter : https://twitter.com/RobinDeFay
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Everyrealm's Links
Twitter : https://www.twitter.com/everyrealm
Discord : discord.gg/ntSaG8b9sW
Soundlands : asmrsoundlands.com
Substack : realmroundup.substack.com
Website https://www.everyrealm.com
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