This Week in the Metaverse Podcast

This Week in the Metaverse for April 24, 2023

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.

This Week in the Metaverse for April 17, 2023

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.

This Week in the Metaverse for April 10, 2023

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.

This Week in the Metaverse for April 3, 2023

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.

This Week in the Metaverse for March 27, 2023

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.

This Week in the Metaverse for March 13, 2023

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

This Week in the Metaverse for March 6, 2023

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 MetaMansion.

This Week in the Metaverse for February 27, 2023

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.

This Week in the Metaverse for February 20, 2023

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, but it’s early.
What the 9 big dangers of the metaverse are.

This Week in the Metaverse for February 13, 2023

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.