AGLET ONE COLORWAY COMPETITION: Here’s your chance to have your own Aglet One High dropped into the Aglet Sneaker Shop!

How To Enter: Download the Aglet One High Tech Pack from:  http://techpack.aglet.app

Get creative and design your own colorway

Entries must include a sneaker story explaining the design

Submit your design via email to [email protected] by 11:59PM Hawaiian Time on November 16th. Only 1 entry per person!

Our judges will choose a total of 15 shoes to be dropped in the Aglet Sneaker Shop. The judges will also pick 1 overall winner who will also receive 1000 Gold Aglet added to their Aglet Player Account. 

Lucy Crivelli sits down for a deep dive conversation with Dianne Halloway on her first virtual collaboration with Aglet!

Dianne Halloway x Aglet dropping November 7th! Don’t sleep download the Aglet App now 👀

Beat: killgxxd

Eric Peckham is one of the smartest and insightful writers out there on the future of the consumer internet. We came to know of his work during his time at TechCrunch. In particular, his excellent series on the metaverse where he takes a different view of the typical Science Fiction view, i.e. The Oasis. Eric posits not a metaverse but a multi-verse of virtual worlds. Ryan and Eric explore a number of related concepts like gaming, governance, social capital, SHIT, STENK, etc. It’s a whirlwind of fun! See whether you can keep up.

Ryan interviews David Sheldon-Hicks. David is the CEO and Creative Director of Territory Studios. Territory is one of the leading motion graphics, animation, and interface design companies in the world. They’ve worked on many of our favorite films and shows: The Martian, Mr. Robot, Avengers, Blade Runner 2049, Ex Machina, etc. Plus, some other amazing projects coming soon that we weren’t able to discuss. Ryan and David talk about storytelling, spatial computing, the future of Hollywood and film, game engines, etc. If you love the way technology impacts storytelling and the future of storytelling, then give this a listen.

Jordy "Jordation" Frish is an Australian Overwatch player that currently plays for Dire Wolves. Considering Aglet is doing a special drop with the Dire Wolves, we thought it only made sense to bring on one of their players to talk to us about his journey to where he is now. We hope you enjoy it.

On this episode Ryan talks to Leslie Shannon of Nokia where she's currently Head of Ecosystem and Trend Scouting. Her interests include 5G, Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality, Visual Analytics, Next-Gen Gaming, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and on and on, which means you know she has a great conversation with our own Ryan. 

We hope you enjoy this one as much as we did!

Ryan talks with thought-leader and explorer, ROBERT SCOBLE, of all things emerging technology.

Robert has authored four books the last of which prompted this discussion.

Here’s his website: https://scobleizer.blog

You can follow him on Twitter at @scobleizer

It’s called Infinite Retina and you can find it on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Retina-Computing-technologies-revolution/dp/1838824049/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Infinite+Retina&qid=1600094965&sr=8-1

We mention a number of people, companies, books and concepts during the conversation.

Matt Miesnieks, founder and CEO of 6D.ai. They were recently acquired by Niantic Labs.

Tim O'Reilly’s book WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us

https://www.amazon.com/WTF-Whats-Future-Why-Its/dp/0062565710/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Tim+O%27Reily+WTF&qid=1600095092&sr=8-1-fkmr1

We also talk a lot about VR and Burning Man in VR.

The app we’re talking about is called Altspace.

We also mentioned Rec Room.

I VR in the Oculus Quest. Be aware that the updated version will be dropping here soon. So, wait if you want to get the latest and greatest.

Also, again, mentioned a couple books that are core to our mission at Aglet and helped informed that from a pop culture perspective:

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

We also mentioned on more than one occasion the release of Apple’s AR glasses. Obviously, nothing has been officially announced by Apple but, as per usual, we have leaks. Here are a couple articles to explore:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-19/apple-team-working-on-vr-and-ar-headset-and-ar-glasses

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-glasses

Epic Games, creator of Fortnite, has a powerful creation and game engine called the Unreal Engine. Here you can learn more about it from Matthew Ball’s wonderful essay.

Thanks!!!

Ryan

Join our very own @lucycrivelli & special guest @_ajgirard, for a conversation on the Aglet One ‘BLM’ and the deeper meaning rooted within this sneaker.

Special shout out to @killgxxd for the music

With the women's drop coming up this week we decided it only made sense to give you a podcast with the person who's putting that drop together. Our very own Lucy Crivelli, who's been interning with Aglet for months now. As always, would love your thoughts because this is an idea we're thinking about doing with any sponsored drops moving forward. Hope you enjoy!

Muhib Yusufi aka Mocha Muhib aka Baba Mocha aka CEO of ASTAGHFIRULLAH joined us for an episode of "Sneakers To The Metaverse" this week. We talked about everything from how he got started in putting out content to how he built up a following up close to 200k on Tik Tok with over 100m views all the way to what he sees as trends coming for the streetwear space in the future. 

Make sure to give him a follow on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter to check out some of his content/to learn more about him. 

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