In 2021, John and I decided to investigate the metaverse in our fourth-ever Mint One (WAX Lyrical then) podcast episode: What Is the Metaverse? We decided to revisit it and see what has changed.
Token Gamer and NFT Insider have decided to combine forces to launch a weekly podcast, Mint One (formerly WAX Lyrical). John Nichols of NFT Insider and I will discuss a new topic every week, as well as feature special guests. If there’s a topic you’d like us to cover, make sure you let us know through the Token Gamer Discord or Twitter, or the NFT Insider Discord or Twitter.
In last week’s episode, we did a wrap-up of Web3’s presence at GDC 2023. This week, we’re wading back into the murky waters of the metaverse to see how much it has changed.
Mint One Podcast, Episode 62: Revisiting the Metaverse
I don’t revel in the requirement of listening to our early episodes, back when it was called WAX Lyrical. As I mention in this recording, our second episode was a disaster and I refuse to re-listen, so I feared for episode four, though it wasn’t quite as rough as I suspected. We covered the blurriness around the term “metaverse”, what definitions we have, and what projects are actively looking to build it.
Web3 is a strange space where time moves both quickly and slowly, and the metaverse sector of it exemplifies that. In some regards, we have learned what needs to be in place for a metaverse to function, but in others, many are now pulling in different directions and we still don’t have a true metaverse. There are several metaverse games that are strong early approximations, but for it to realize the slightly sci-fi ambition of a digital existence, we need so much more.
In this episode, we discuss what’s changed since 2021, what’s stayed the same, and who the frontrunners are for creating the metaverse.
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