Episode description

Dale Deacon is a creative technologist with a focus on 3D, extended reality (XR), and Web3. We discuss the Metaverse and extended reality’s potential impact on cities and what an average person’s day can look like.

Listen or watch to explore:

• Overview of his background and role at Team Epic.
• Extended reality (XR) as an umbrella term used to describe immersive technologies that can merge the physical and virtual worlds. Including augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) plus those that are still to be created.
• About the Africa XR report: a community initiative to map our extended reality ecosystem for the first time, the result of a 15 month long survey. Download it here
• What exactly is ‘The Metaverse’ and why should people care about it.
• How governments can get involved in the these extended realities.
• Latest trends in Metaverse strategies.
• Roadblocks ahead and potential dangers.
• What an average person’s day can look like in the not so distant future.

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