In this episode of TALKING METAVERSE, our guest is Genya Smagin who is the Senior Manager in Metaverse Investment and Partnerships at SK Telecom.  Genya joins us from Seoul, South Korea - a place that he feels could be the capital of the Metaverse!  

Jump to 17:00 to hear Genya talk about the line between 'real' and 'metaverse.'

Dr. Kelvin Cheng from Rakuten joins us from Tokyo, Japan, to talk about creating a novel sports watching experience in stadiums by making use of state of the art technology that takes advantage of 5G.

Conversation with Julian Gorman, Head of Asia Pacific at GSMA.  

We start off by discussing interest and momentum across the Telco industry, opportunity and potential for Telcos, regulation in the Metaverse and monetizing the connectivity.  And as usual we end with a little bit of philosophising about the far future.

Leslie Shannon is Head of Ecosystem and Trend Scouting at Nokia, and also one of the most passionate proponents of the Metaverse.

Also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/u6yhIQxxfdc

5G, Cloud & Telecommunications Expert Kanesh Govindasamy shares his thoughts on use cases and potential opportunities in the Metaverse for mobile network operators today.

We learn that we are still learning what the Metaverse is as makers as well as users.

It's certainly surprising when somebody like Matt who has had a long and successful career in AR, says he's given up on AR!

- why he's given up on AR

- what he learned from having his last company 6D.ai acquired by Niantic Inc.

- and what's next (new metaverse company!)

Frans Tihveräinen has bene augmenting reality since getting his mind blown by a random album cover that jumped out of an ipad screen in 2012.

He is the co-founder and CEO of FlyAR.

https://flyar.fi/

In this episode of TALKING METAVERSE, Joh Orengo shares his story of setting up Spatial8 - a modern business hub of European emerging technology companies related to Extended Reality, spatial computing, and the metaverse designed to better educate the market, improve business, and facilitate innovation.

Recorded at the Immersal office in Helsinki, Finland.

Hosted by Tan Lay.

https://www.spatial8.com/about