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Building the Foundation of The Spatial Web, with VERSES founder Gabriel Rene
The web page is
a deceptively simple invention, but its creation -- and more
importantly, its cross-programmability -- made the World Wide Web the
technological powerhouse it has become. Gabriel Rene founded VERSES
to encourage similar similar developments in spacial computing.
Alan: Today's guest is Gabriel
Rene, an architect and founder of The VERSES Foundation. He's a
technologist, entrepreneur, researcher, media and music producer,
whose 25-year career in the technology, telecom and entertainment
industry has granted him the knowledge and experience to consistently
invent unique business verticals, and to navigate the novel
challenges of the emerging global digital entertainment, marketing,
e-com, mobile and spatial technology markets. aAs a deep technology
pioneer, mobile executive, and corporate strategist, Gabriel has
built multiple innovative technology companies, developed
groundbreaking enterprise and consumer software, and forged strategic
partnerships with multiple Fortune 50 companies. Rene has worked with
-- and advised some of -- the world's largest brands, spanning media
conglomerates, telcos, media manufacturers, mobile manufacturers,
governments, and major brands. As a C-level executive founder, he has
demonstrated unique leadership, strategic and operational
capabilities in growing businesses from zero to $25-million in annual
revenues. As an advisor and board member, he has helped multiple
startups and founders navigate their way to success. Gabriel serves
as the executive director of the VERSES Foundation, an organization
at the intersection of Block Chain, Virtual Reality, and Artificial
Intelligence technologies designed to power Web 3.0 and dedicated to
the interoperable adoption of spatial technologies across every major
industry. As the founder and executive director of VERSES, the Global
Advisory Board Member and co-chair of the AR Cloud Committee, and a
founding member of the Open AR Cloud. With that, I want to welcome
Gabriel Rene. Thank you for joining us on the show.
Gabriel: Thank you, Alan. It's a
pleasure to be here.
Alan: Where can people find you
online if they want to look into it?
Gabriel: Well, if it's me
personally, you can find me @GabrielRene at LinkedIn, and you can
also find me on Twitter under the same name. And then with VERSES,
you can go to VERSES.io to get all the latest information on us.
Alan: So let's unpack this. Tell
me what you're doing at VERSES right now, and I want to get the full
understanding of what is VERSES, and why it's important for people
listening.
Gabriel: So I guess the first
place to start is way back in 1990 or so. There was a young, talented
researcher by the name of Tim Berners-Lee, who was working at the
CERN Institute, and he was developing a new set of technologies which
have come to be known as the World Wide Web protocols. So those are
all the HTTP, which was hypertext transfer protocol, and HTML, which
is a hypertext markup language. That, combined with a browser, which
he developed as an open source standard, and on top of the domain
structure that had been pre-existing -- which we'd been using from
the email era of .coms and .edu, .org, etc. -- he created this you
URL format, which essentially made pages programmable, gave us the
ability to link content on those pages, and the ability to network
those pages. This, of course, became the World Wide Web.
The majority of our technologies and
power and advantages and capability today, whether in business or
personal lives, in public or private sector, come from the benefits
of these core protocols that enable the network. But it's
fundamentally a network of pages and text and media. And now, with
the dawn of new interfaces that come with XR technologies --
particularly augmented reality for the real world, or more
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The web page is
a deceptively simple invention, but its creation -- and more
importantly, its cross-programmability -- made the World Wide Web the
technological powerhouse it has become. Gabriel Rene founded VERSES
to encourage similar similar developments in spacial computing.
Alan: Today's guest is Gabriel
Rene, an architect and founder of The VERSES Foundation. He's a
technologist, entrepreneur, researcher, media and music producer,
whose 25-year career in the technology, telecom and entertainment
industry has granted him the knowledge and experience to consistently
invent unique business verticals, and to navigate the novel
challenges of the emerging global digital entertainment, marketing,
e-com, mobile and spatial technology markets. aAs a deep technology
pioneer, mobile executive, and corporate strategist, Gabriel has
built multiple innovative technology companies, developed
groundbreaking enterprise and consumer software, and forged strategic
partnerships with multiple Fortune 50 companies. Rene has worked with
-- and advised some of -- the world's largest brands, spanning media
conglomerates, telcos, media manufacturers, mobile manufacturers,
governments, and major brands. As a C-level executive founder, he has
demonstrated unique leadership, strategic and operational
capabilities in growing businesses from zero to $25-million in annual
revenues. As an advisor and board member, he has helped multiple
startups and founders navigate their way to success. Gabriel serves
as the executive director of the VERSES Foundation, an organization
at the intersection of Block Chain, Virtual Reality, and Artificial
Intelligence technologies designed to power Web 3.0 and dedicated to
the interoperable adoption of spatial technologies across every major
industry. As the founder and executive director of VERSES, the Global
Advisory Board Member and co-chair of the AR Cloud Committee, and a
founding member of the Open AR Cloud. With that, I want to welcome
Gabriel Rene. Thank you for joining us on the show.
Gabriel: Thank you, Alan. It's a
pleasure to be here.
Alan: Where can people find you
online if they want to look into it?
Gabriel: Well, if it's me
personally, you can find me @GabrielRene at LinkedIn, and you can
also find me on Twitter under the same name. And then with VERSES,
you can go to VERSES.io to get all the latest information on us.
Alan: So let's unpack this. Tell
me what you're doing at VERSES right now, and I want to get the full
understanding of what is VERSES, and why it's important for people
listening.
Gabriel: So I guess the first
place to start is way back in 1990 or so. There was a young, talented
researcher by the name of Tim Berners-Lee, who was working at the
CERN Institute, and he was developing a new set of technologies which
have come to be known as the World Wide Web protocols. So those are
all the HTTP, which was hypertext transfer protocol, and HTML, which
is a hypertext markup language. That, combined with a browser, which
he developed as an open source standard, and on top of the domain
structure that had been pre-existing -- which we'd been using from
the email era of .coms and .edu, .org, etc. -- he created this you
URL format, which essentially made pages programmable, gave us the
ability to link content on those pages, and the ability to network
those pages. This, of course, became the World Wide Web.
The majority of our technologies and
power and advantages and capability today, whether in business or
personal lives, in public or private sector, come from the benefits
of these core protocols that enable the network. But it's
fundamentally a network of pages and text and media. And now, with
the dawn of new interfaces that come with XR technologies --
particularly augmented reality for the real world, or more