This Week in the Metaverse Podcast
A weekly update of the latest news related to the metaverse, including cryptocurrency, blockchain, NFTs, Web3, and virtual reality, delivered with a healthy dose of fun and snark.
Episodes
April 24, 2023 • 8 mins
In 8 minutes, you’ll hear about:
- Insiders being blown away by Apple’s new AR/VR product.
- The European Parliament approving comprehensive rules regulating crypto.
- Why VC money is drying up for crypto projects.
- Yuga Labs and the Bored Apes’ big win in court.
- 8 reasons your crypto investment might be disappointing you.
- A music group that brought the metaverse out into the real world instead of the other way around.
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April 17, 2023 • 9 mins
In 8 minutes, you’ll hear about:
- Why some people are worried about Meta letting teenagers into Horizon Worlds.
- How much confidence Americans currently have in crypto.
- How France is saying phooey on the big metaverse platforms, we’ll make our own.
- What Mastercard’s new Music Pass NFT gets you.
- Which streaming platform just made the jump to virtual reality access.
- The things keeping blockchain from reaching its true potential.
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April 10, 2023 • 10 mins
In 8 minutes, you’ll hear about:
- A former Meta insider and what they think is the problem developing the metaverse.
- How successful, or not, Metaverse Fashion Week was.
- The speculation as to Apple’s approach to the metaverse, VR and AR.
- One big argument for why we should be using crypto.
- ChatGPT’s opinion of Bitcoin.
- The top blockchain trends for 2023.
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April 3, 2023 • 8 mins
In 8 minutes, you’ll hear about:
- Why Disney wiped out its metaverse team.
- Why Nvidia’s CTO thinks crypto has nothing to contribute to humanity.
- What Mastercard is doing to become the default payment system of the metaverse.
- How Burger King is helping customer devices stay charged using crypto.
- What it’s like to snuggle with strangers’ avatars and sleep in virtual reality.
- What it’s like to die in virtual reality.
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March 27, 2023 • 8 mins
In 8 minutes, you’ll hear about:
- How the EU is trying to put a “kill switch” on smart contracts.
- Why Meta is backing away from NFTs.
- How the IRS is leaning toward taxing digital assets.
- How Second Life is expanding to mobile after all these years.
- How Sony is working to let you carry your digital assets from game to game and platform to platform.
- The metaverse jobs of the future.
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March 13, 2023 • 8 mins
In 8 short minutes you’ll find out:
- What the Silicon Valley Bank collapse is doing to crypto and stablecoins
- How governments are feeling about regulating crypto now
- What Amazon’s NFT platform is going to look like
- About ways we might see blockchain evolve
- Predictions for Web3 and the metaverse
- About the latest celebrity entering The Sandbox
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March 6, 2023 • 7 mins
In 8 minutes, you’ll hear about:
- A court in Colombia that held a real trial in the metaverse.
- How many people are hanging onto their crypto and why they won’t give up on it.
- What’s turning Mark Zuckerberg’s head away from the metaverse.
- The two big mistakes the coiner of the phrase metaverse says people are making about it.
- The car shopping experience in the metaverse.
- How you can get into the special sections of Playboy’s Meta...
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February 27, 2023 • 8 mins
In 8 minutes, you’ll hear about:
- A state bill that will get government access blockchain transactions without a private key.
- Why it’s almost hopeless to be anonymous in the metaverse.
- Upcoming tech to give you better fingers in the metaverse.
- Efforts to get a federally sanctioned digital asset marketplace going.
- How you can step right into your old memories in VR.
- Why YouTube might be more open to Web3 now.
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February 20, 2023 • 8 mins
In this short episode you’ll learn:
- About Microsoft’s latest step away from the metaverse.
- Why investors are pouring money into Web3 gaming even as player numbers go down.
- What Roblox is doing to make it easier to build virtual worlds using just words.
- About the VR headset coming out that is will be the world’s lightest and slimmest.
- Why the IMF says the dangers of El Salvador using Bitcoin as legal tender haven’t shown up yet,...
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February 13, 2023 • 8 mins
In this short episode you’ll learn:
- How the U.S. financial system is being a real jerk to cryptocurrency.
- About some secret understanding The Sandbox came to with Saudi Arabia.
- Which countries tweet most positively and most negatively about the metaverse.
- What phygital NFTs are.
- What AI tokens are.
- How Paris Hilton is helping people find the loves of their lives in the metaverse.
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February 6, 2023 • 9 mins
In this short episode you’ll learn:
- Why Meta is having its developers shut down popular VR games
- About a new way to get much higher resolution in VR goggles
- What the NFL has planned in the metaverse leading up to the Super Bowl
- Why your relatives will be conversing with a dead you in the metaverse sooner than thought
- How virtual flirting might stop you from cheating in the real world
- Why Web3 and NFTs might not be the answer fo...
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January 30, 2023 • 7 mins
In this short episode you’ll learn:
- Why Microsoft threw in the towel on its metaverse world.
- How sketchy the Federal Reserve Board still thinks crypto is.
- How Amazon might get into the NFT business.
- The most in demand Web3 skills employers are looking for.
- How the NBA is making watching real games virtually even cooler.
- How crypto investors think the metaverse is most likely to change how we do things.
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January 23, 2023 • 7 mins
In this short episode you’ll learn:
- About some other dominos falling after the FTX debacle.
- About Seoul, South Korea’s city metaverse for citizen services.
- What Apple has in the works for the metaverse.
- Why Dogecoin just earned some sustainability bragging rights.
- Why it’s industry that might get the metaverse going more-so than consumers.
- What those who have been doing their work inside the metaverse really think of it.
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January 16, 2023 • 8 mins
In this short episode you’ll learn:
- The main thing that has to happen if Web3 is going to work and get adopted.
- The results of a PwC survey about the workplace, employment, and the metaverse’s likely roles.
- The big metaverse job openings at LEGO.
- How Lenovo can get you into the metaverse with no headgear or wearables.
- The companies working to make your digital avatars interoperable in different metaverses.
- And some of the funny...
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January 9, 2023 • 7 mins
In this short episode you’ll learn:
- How enterprises haven’t gotten the memo the metaverse is a bust
- The results of Accenture’s big metaverse survey
- What to watch for in Web3 this year
- How a “Science Eye” might be what connects you to the metaverse
- A way to not look quite as dumb to onlookers while you’re in virtual environments
- What a next-gen metaverse casino has to offer
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January 2, 2023 • 7 mins
In this short episode you’ll learn:
- Cryptocurrency predictions for 2023
- How VR headset sales are going
- The trends that will shape the metaverse over the next decade
- The main reasons the metaverse hasn’t yet caught on with the masses
- Which metaverse platforms seem to be doing best
- What Home Depot is building for the metaverse
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December 19, 2022 • 7 mins
In this short episode you’ll learn:
- How you might be getting a second skin for your virtual life.
- How different virtual environments affect your mood.
- Who wants to use the metaverse for travel, and how.
- What the Bored Ape Yacht Club guys have planned for the metaverse.
- Three bits of advice for businesses thinking about getting into the metaverse.
- And some New Year’s predictions for the metaverse and Web3.
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December 12, 2022 • 8 mins
In this short episode you’ll learn:
- If the metaverse won word of the year.
- Who really, really doesn’t want the government to regulate the metaverse too much.
- Who’s excited about the metaverse and understands it
- Why the UK isn’t and doesn’t
- Which metaverse lets you rent out your virtual land
- What the founder of Ethereum thinks the top uses of crypto are
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December 5, 2022 • 7 mins
In this short episode you’ll learn:
- Four big challenges the metaverse is facing
- How many people came to the metaverse party the European Union threw
- How smart contracts are being used in healthcare
- The new way to make your avatar move as quickly and smoothly as you do
- Which nation is more bullish than ever on crypto
- Which industry the AR try-on experience is helping most
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November 28, 2022 • 7 mins
In this short episode you’ll learn:
- What kind of metaverse talent Apple is looking for, and why
- If women are getting a good seat at the table in metaverse leadership
- Why the producer of Abba’s 3D show thinks technology is making us lonely
- About legislation in New York that outright bans certain crypto mining
- Whether or not Mark Zuckerberg is really going to quit Meta
- Some ways we might handle our identities in all these metaver...
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