Episodes
April 24, 2023
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 t…
April 17, 2023
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 platform…
April 10, 2023
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,…
April 3, 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.
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March 27, 2023
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…
March 13, 2023
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…
March 6, 2023
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 th…
Feb. 27, 2023
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…
Feb. 20, 2023
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 virt…
Feb. 13, 2023
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 …
Feb. 6, 2023
This Week in the Metaverse for February 6, 2023
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 B…
Jan. 30, 2023
This Week in the Metaverse for January 30, 2023
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 s…
Jan. 23, 2023
This Week in the Metaverse for January 23, 2023
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 ear…
Jan. 16, 2023
This Week in the Metaverse for January 16, 2023
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…
Jan. 9, 2023
This Week in the Metaverse for January 9, 2023
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 connec…
Jan. 2, 2023
This Week in the Metaverse for January 2, 2023
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 th…
Dec. 19, 2022
This Week in the Metaverse for December 19, 2022
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 Ya…
Dec. 12, 2022
This Week in the Metaverse for December 12, 2022
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 is…
Dec. 5, 2022
This Week in the Metaverse for December 5, 2022
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 a…
Nov. 28, 2022
This Week in the Metaverse for November 28, 2022
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 ma…
Nov. 21, 2022
This Week in the Metaverse for November 21, 2022
In this short episode you’ll learn:
The metaverse’s role in this year’s World Cup
What banks are doing in the metaverse
Which dead celebrity is coming back to life as a metaverse hologram
The countries that are most “ready” …
Nov. 14, 2022
This Week in the Metaverse for November 14, 2022
In this short episode you’ll learn:
What the FTX implosion means for the rest of crypto
About a brand-new nation that’s starting in the metaverse first, but then will be real land
Why if you own an NFT, you may not own what …
Nov. 7, 2022
This Week in the Metaverse for November 7, 2022
In this short episode you’ll learn:
About the two groups fighting for what the metaverse is eventually going to be
How many Americans want the government to regulate crypto
The seven technologies needed to make the metaverse…
Oct. 31, 2022
This Week in the Metaverse for October 31, 2022
In this short episode you’ll learn:
Why it’s predicted most business projects in the metaverse will fail by 2025.
Why Apple won’t even use the word “metaverse”.
Why graphics in the metaverse have to get as good as today’s vi…