Sneakers to the Metaverse

Thanks for listening! Dan Freebairn (@kickposters) and Ryan touched on a number of topics, themes, references during the show. Wanted to list here links for you to explore further should anything tickle your fancy.

Teen Wolf 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2XVkDTO0UY

Adidas Future Loop

https://www.fastcompany.com/90428959/exclusive-the-second-generation-of-adidass-loop-shoe-is-here

Run DMC “It’s Like That”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hN1SKVx31s

Walter Benjamin “Aura”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction

Five Chimp Theory

http://www.killingbuddha.co/blog/2016/2/19/naval-ravikant-on-who-he-admires

HighSnobiety The New Luxury

https://www.amazon.com/New-Luxury-Defining-Aspirational-Hype/dp/3899559835/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=highsnobiety+new+luxury&qid=1589986598&sr=8-1

Dan’s Poster Illustrations

https://kickposters.com

“Quotoole” video that Dan mentioned

https://youtu.be/7LGqf2wvqb8

Go to Bed, Sneakerhead Book

https://www.instagram.com/p/BveyjWLFaG5/?igshid=pforec5co4v5

In episode 2, Ryan and Azeem decided to do something a bit different. Last week Ryan spoke a bit about how what we're doing is related to the metaverse, and as promised we wanted to deliver an in depth episode on exactly what that means because it's what we intend to build.

During this episode, Ryan references quite a lot of people and quite a lot of papers, articles, etc. If you’d like to dig deeper, he’s created a list of links for you to pursue at your own leisure.

Mark Weiser. The Computer for the 21st Century

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~corps/phaseii/Weiser-Computer21stCentury-SciAm.pdf

Kevin Kelly. Mirror Worlds

https://www.wired.com/story/mirrorworld-ar-next-big-tech-platform/

Vannevar Bush, As We May Think

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/

Ted Nelson, Project Xanadu and Hypertext

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon

Matthew Ball, Metaverse and Who Will Build It

Marc Andreessen, “Software is Eating the World”

https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world/

Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=ready+player+one&qid=1589828717&sr=8-2

Magic Leap

https://www.magicleap.com/en-us

Niantic Labs

https://nianticlabs.com

Improbable

https://improbable.io

6D.ai

https://www.6d.ai

How Close are we to achieving the Metaverse

https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/05/just-how-close-are-we-to-achieving-the-metaverse/

The Metaverse, Spatial Computing and 5G

https://www.lbbonline.com/news/the-metaverse-spatial-computing-and-5g

Here in this introductory Episode of Sneakers To The Metaverse, Ryan and Azeem touch on their backgrounds, reasons Aglet was started, their feelings about the streetwear/sneaker industry at this time, what you can expect from the show, and more.