Danny Fortson & Philip Rosedale , The Times Tech Podcast

High Fidelity's Philip Rosedale: "The trouble with building the metaverse"

10 Sep 2021 • 64 min • EN
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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on High Fidelity’s Philip Rosedale to talk about virtual worlds before the Internet (4:00), founding Second Life (8:00), capturing the zeitgeist (11:00), Second Life today (16:05), the current metaverse hype (20:10), the challenge of living a virtual life (23:10), the folly of the “hybrid” workplace (29:20), the dangers of virtual life (31:30), the importance of business model (35:00), the hardware challenges (39:30), and of augmented reality (44:00), tech’s misunderstanding of human behaviour (47:10), the dystopic idea that yielded the metaverse (51:00), and Burning Man in the time of Covid (59:40). For a FREE trial subscription to The Times, go to: thetimes.co.uk/dannyinthevalley Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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