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Staking Claim to a Digital Plot in AR, with SuperWorld's Hrish Lotlikar


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Imagine owning the
digital real estate surrounding the Taj Mahal. Well, to be real with
you, you can't have all of it - today's guest, SuperWorld co-founder
Hrish Lotlikar, already has a piece. But he's made it easy for anyone
who wants it to buy the rest, and other plots of digital real estate
around the world.
He also talks about The
Rogue Initiative and SingularityNET!
Alan: Welcome to the XR for
Business Podcast with your host, Alan Smithson. Today's guest is
Hrish Lotlikar from the Rogue Initiative, SuperWorld app, and
SingularityNET. Hrish is the co-founder and chief business
development officer for the Rogue Initiative, a Los Angeles based
entertainment company composed of award winning entertainment
industry professionals, including alumni from Amblin Entertainment,
Pixar, DreamWorks Animation, Disney, Activision and they are creating
new original feature films, television, AAA cinematic interactive VR,
and gaming content. He's also the co-founder of SuperWorld --
superworldapp.com -- which is Foursquare meets Pokemon Go meets
Monopoly in the real world, building a community in AR, powered by
the blockchain. They've built an AR real estate marketplace, ad
marketplace on the blockchain, which also acts as a social AR app,
allowing users to personalize their real world by adding anything,
anywhere in augmented reality with photos, videos, texts, and 3D
objects, and share those experiences with their followers. He's also
an advisor of SingularityNET, a decentralized marketplace for AI
algorithms allowing companies, organizations, and developers to buy
and sell AI at scale. Previously to this, he was in venture capital,
but he got better. If you want to learn more about Hrish's
initiatives, you can go to the Rogue Initiative, which is
therogueinitiative.com,
SuperWorld, which is superworldapp.com,
and SingularityNET, which is singularitynet.io.
Hrish, welcome to the show, my friend.
Hrish: Hey, thanks so much for
having me, Alan. I appreciate it. Looking forward to having this
conversation.
Alan: Oh, absolute pleasure. You
do a lot in this space. And the first time we met was at-- I think
it's now called Global World Summit. But it was called-- what was it
called before?
Hrish: The VR/AR Conference?
Alan: Yeah.The VR/AR Association
Conference. But let's unpack these amazing initiatives that you're
doing. Let's start with the one that's Rogue.
Hrish: Yeah.
Alan: Tell us about it.
Hrish: Sure, yeah. So, Rogue
Initiative we started back in late 2015. My co-founders, Pete Blumel
and Cathy Twigg. The goal of the Rogue Initiative was looking at the
convergence of linear, Hollywood, traditional entertainment and
interactive entertainment. And how could we -- from the ground up --
create new original properties that brought those forms of
entertainment together? Because there is a confluence of technology
and Silicon Valley in Hollywood that was coming together. And how do
we how do we kind of leverage that, to create new original content
that goes across all of those medium? So building and developing a
new story that starts on the feature film side and then organically
moves to interactive all the way through TV, through all the way to
amusement park rides and toys. So building franchises from the ground
up, bringing in top Hollywood talent and interactive talent, and
knowing from the foundations of creating that content, that we're
building it to go across all those mediums. And that's the kind of
high level vision of the Rogue Initiative.
Alan: Very cool. So let's move
on to SuperWorld app. Let's
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