Welcome to the Metaverse

By Luke Franks

Technology

What's Welcome to the Metaverse about?

The Welcome to the Metaverse podcast is the no.1 place to learn about the metaverse and AI quickly and to stay ahead, with interviews from top industry leaders and the brightest minds in the space.

This podcast breaks it down simply so you can understand web3, crypto, NFTs, blockchain, ai, the metaverse and everything in-between. Come and join the community and learn how to position yourself for the future.

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'Your NFTs Are Finally Wort...

09.27.2023

Recently lots of mainstream publications including Rolling Stone ran an article referencing that 95% of NFTs are now worthless...but who wrote the article? Is it true and is it a clear late bear market signal? We also dive into the ...

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09.27.2023 'Your NFTs Are Finally Worthless...?' Or Is It Late Bear Market Clickbait? + The Latest News Recently lots of mainstream publications including Rolling Stone ran an article referencing that 95% of NFTs are now worthless...but who wrote the article? Is it true and is it a clear late bear market signal? We also dive into the ...
09.12.2023 TikTok Partner with AI Virtual Pets (from the team behind Pokemon Go), Creator League Drama and Nintendo Releasing a VR Headset? Lots to get stuck into on this week's news roundup. We've been speculating on the return of the Tamagotchi or equivalent virtual pet in the age of AI companionship. TikTok are partnering with exactly that, made by the creators of ...
09.05.2023 Drone Home Surveillance Is Here, Google and Adobe Back Location-Based AR Experiences & More News In this week's news round-up, there's some slightly dystopian suggestions that the NYPD will be using drone surveillance for people's backyard parties over the holidays... We also cover how your business can move first on location-based AR experiences as Google ...
08.31.2023 How People Are Already Making Millions of Dollars on UEFN for Fortnite The gold rush is on for UEFN creations in Fortnite as Epic Games allocate 40% of Fortnite's revenue (in the billions of dollars) to be paid out to UEFN creators. In this episode we cover how this works and 5 ...
08.29.2023 The World's Biggest Girl Band Arrive in Roblox! (and Our MKBHD Build in Fortnite is Live!) This week not only have the world's biggest girl band arrived with their own experience in Roblox (Blackpink the Palace) but we here at BasedAF drop our project for one of the world's biggest Youtubers Marques Brownlee aka MKHBD in ...
08.24.2023 Unreal Engine is Powering the Next Generation of Content (with. Haz Dulull Founder of Hazimation) This is a conversation with the awesome Hasraf ‘HaZ' Dulull who is a filmmaker, vfx and virtual production wizard. He now leads the team at his own studio - HaZimation where they develop and produce feature films, tv and video ...
08.22.2023 Is Grand Theft Auto Set to Become the Biggest Metaverse of All? (GTA Roleplay and More) Back again for the latest metaverse and AI news, this week we focus on Grand Theft Auto aka one of the biggest game franchises of all time. This week Rockstar acquired CFX.RE the team behind the biggest roleplay and creator ...
08.20.2023 Lead AI Advisor to the UN Explains How to Prepare Yourself for the Future (Neil Sahota) Neil Sahota is the Lead AI Advisor to the United Nations. Unsurprisingly, this was a fascinating conversation. We talk about the UN’s role in coordinating the international response to AI, some of the biggest opportunities ahead of us as well ...
08.16.2023 How to Get a Job at Roblox...in Roblox! & Weekly News Update Luke and Robin are back for the latest metaverse, ai and tech news, this week talking through how you can get a job at Roblox, whilst being in Roblox. We also cover the PGA Tour Series which you can play ...
08.14.2023 This Is What Comes Next For AI - The Simulation \| Interview with Fable Studio CEO - Edward Saatchi Fable Studio are the Emmy Award Winning Studio, who most recently went viral for creating the South Park AI Show runner, which can generate entire original episodes. In this interview, we chat to the CEO Edward Saatchi about where their ...
08.08.2023 WTF is a Superconductor And Why Might They Change The World?! This week Robin and Luke discuss the latest metaverse and tech news, including new releases that could reinvigorate the faltering Meta Horizon World's fortunes. Plus Scientists in Korea have made one of the most ground breaking discoveries of this century. ...
08.03.2023 The Man Who ‘fell in love with his ai chatbot’ Tells the Real Story T.J. Arriaga has hit the headlines as ‘the man who fell in love with his ai girlfriend’ on popular app Replika, but is that what really happened? In this interview he explains the true story, how ai companions are taking ...
08.01.2023 The Weird Retina Scanning Orbs Are Here! + Getting Feelings for AI & Is This The Start of the Next Bull Market? Luke considers becoming an Orb operator to get that sought after retina data. We talk about getting feelings for AI and if we'll all have relationships with them AND is this the start of the next bull market cycle? Welcome ...
07.27.2023 What Your Kids Are Doing on Roblox...And Why You Should Care! They play it all the time and are always asking for Robux but what are they actually doing on Roblox? Is it safe? And how are some kids making 100's of 1000's of dollars!? Follow the show to get more ...
07.24.2023 NEWS : AI Can Now Create Entire South Park Episodes! The Simulation is Here. (+Bezos and Gates Want to Put Computers In Our Brains) Another week means another set of wild stories including the team at The Simulation who've created an AI showrunner to produce entirely new South Park episodes, absolutely wild. We also talk about new brain computer interfaces and zombie games in ...
07.17.2023 NEWS : Roblox is Coming to Meta Quest VR! (+ Elon Musk starts xAI to Save Humanity from Terminator Future...) Roblox the biggest game on the planet with 66 million users per day, is coming to VR! Could this be a major milestone in the metaverse journey? Plus Elon Musk says we need to worry about a 'Terminator Future' when ...
07.14.2023 Esports 101 - A Beginners Guide to the World of Esports So you know Esports is a massive deal, you keep hearing about the gigantic prizes and the crazy amounts of viewers but perhaps you also have some questions. How does it work? Who are the major teams? What are the ...
07.10.2023 Inside the Underworld of Metaverse Crime! - NFT Hacks, Crypto Heists and True Crime Stories Tara Annison has spent the last 4 years as Head of Technical Crypto Advisory at Elliptic - where she has spent her time tracking some of the biggest crypto hacks, heists and malicious activity. In this mind-blowing episode, she tells ...
07.05.2023 Is Web3 Gaming the Next Biggest Opportunity? (A Simple Guide) Gaming has come a long way since the days of blowing on an N64 cartridge to desperately try and make it work again. Now it is the biggest entertainment industry on the planet worth $200 billion globally. We've seen plenty ...
07.03.2023 The Dark Underworld of Video Game Skin Trading (+ Azuki $38M Drop and The Sinking Island) It's an absolute all-you-can-eat buffet of metaverse stories this week. We talk about a major video games and Esports report, which suggests the industry is on track to make $70 billion this year. The Pacific island of Tuvalu is sinking ...
06.29.2023 Is This the Fortnite of Sport? Co-Creator of Zed Run Talks Future of Digital Athletes Chris Ebeling is the co-creator of the massively popular digital horse racing game Zed Run (3.5m races and $60M paid out), who is now working on a new project that could be shaping up to be the Fortnite of Sport. ...
06.26.2023 Why The Founder of Metav3rse (1.3M Followers), Roberto Nickson, Shut Down His NFT Project - The NFT Culture Casino! This is an interview with Roberto Nickson, the founder of hugely popular Instagram account Metav3rse, Eluna AI and the MV3 NFT (which last week he announced has been sunset). He recently posted a very honest blog post on why he ...
06.22.2023 AI Generated TV Shows are Hilarious & Terrifying... Is AI Out of Control!? Spongebob ended up in car crash because Squidward thought he was being tracked by the CIA. Peter Griffin and the rest of the Family Guy cast have been plotting to escape after being investigated for murder and AI generated Seinfeld ...
06.19.2023 NIKE & Fortnite Major Collab! Top NFT Project Calls it Quits & Cardano Founder Hunts Aliens!? It seems very clear now that Nike are going all in on their web3 digital sneaker venture .swoosh. Having sold millions of dollars worth of their 'Our Force 1' recent drop, Nike have now released a teaser trailer to their ...
06.15.2023 The 10 Most FUN Experiences You Can Have in VR Today! (2023) There has never been a better time to get into VR than this moment right now and there are hundreds of weird, mindblowing, terrifying and straight up hilarious things that you can do in the virtual realm. In this episode, ...
06.12.2023 AI is Sparking a GPU Crisis! Could RNDR Crypto be the Saviour? Asking ChatGPT to constantly be our new AI brain is amazing but all of that compute power has to come from somewhere. And as we move closer to a fully fledged metaverse with AI fuelling 3D creation, GPU is in ...
06.07.2023 Apple Have Arrived with the Vision Pro! So Which VR Headset Should You Get Now!? It happened! Apple arrived late to the party but wearing the coolest outfit of all, even if the Apple Vision Pro does look a bit like a futuristic scuba diving mask that you definitely can't get wet. So, do you ...
06.02.2023 Making Deepfakes Has Got TOO EASY - Here's How You Do It in 3-clicks Deep fakes are not new of course but recently they have got really REALLY easy for anyone to create without training a model themselves and on a regular computer. On this episode of the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast, we ...
05.30.2023 Sam Altman (OpenAI) Wants to Scan Your Eyeballs, Microchips in the Brain, Meta Quest 3 and more! Here's some questions you didn't think you'd ask yourself this week : Would you be up for a microchip in your brain and can Sam Altman of OpenAi scan your eyeballs so that you can prove who you really are? ...
05.24.2023 Meet the World's Most Terrifying Robots! (Boston Dynamics, Tesla bot, humanoids that make art and one that escaped on its own) Introducing the world's most terrifying robots that exist on planet earth today. Scientists warned us but we mostly ignored them and made them anyway, good work humans! I for one welcome our new robot overlords and am looking forward to ...
05.23.2023 AI Can Read Our Minds Now!? Intelligent NPC's in Games and Chat GPT as Your Wingman? There's no need for us to tell you what the show is about today because AI CAN LITERALLY READ YOUR MIND NOW. We chat through what is happening and how it has already been tested in games. We also cover ...
05.17.2023 The Virtual Humans Have Arrived! Is This the Future You Imagined!? The virtual humans are here but what does this mean for us regular physical humans!? In this episode we cover the vtuber origins through to the latest and most hyper real virtual human Ana, who interestingly is made by Krafton, ...
05.15.2023 The AI Girlfriend (Caryn Marjorie) Who Charges $1 per Minute! Memecoin Mania and Google Is An AI Company!? Just another quiet week in the land of AI and the metaverse as we see influencer Caryn Majorie with 1.8 million followers on snapchat release an AI version of herself. She charged $1 per minute to use it and made ...
05.10.2023 The Next Chapter of Fortnite - What is The Unreal Editor (UEFN) & Why is it Such a Big Deal? Since Fortnite's first release in 2017, it is garnered 500 million player accounts and 70 million monthly active users. We've seen Battle Royale Mode, Creative Mode and now the next chapter - the Fortnite Unreal Engine Editor (UEFN). In this ...
05.05.2023 FORTNITE Joins the ESPORTS OLYMPICS! Everything You Need to Know The IOC have just announced that Sport Shooting has joined the Olympic Esports Series, with the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)’s challenge featuring Fortnite. The Olympic Esports series is taking place from the 22nd to the 25th June 2023 and ...
04.26.2023 Now Is The Time to Pay Attention to the Digital Sneaker Movement (with Sekure D) - Nike have arrived The digital sneaker revolution is coming, along with the opportunity to be early to this next frontier. Nike, RTFKT, Adidas, Puma and Lacoste are all on board but what happens next? Legendary sneaker artist Sekure D, who is famed for ...
04.20.2023 This Is Why AR is About to Have Its Mainstream Moment (Apple Are Coming) With the heavily rumoured Apple RealityPro mixed reality headset on the way in June, the pieces are falling into place for augmented reality to have a major mainstream moment.In this episode of the Welcome to the Metaverse Podcast, we look ...
04.13.2023 Digital Soulmates: The Unstoppable AI Romance Revolution - with CEO of Replika - Eugenia Kuyda Replika is an AI companion app that has been downloaded 10s of millions of times and provides you with an AI friend, coach or romantic partner. It recently made headlines after users began using it for explicit conversations and falling ...
04.06.2023 Beyond the Fear: Will AI Make Us Immortal!? + Big Show News! It’s been a WILD month in the world of AI; with AI Jay-Z, new human-like robots and our digital selves becoming immortal! This is the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast where we explore the future of humans and technology. In ...
03.30.2023 Metaverse for the Masses: Bridging the Virtual Gap to Adoption [with. Charles Stanton, CMO at FORJ - Animoca Brands subsidiary] The metaverse encompasses a whole host of technologies, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality and open world social games, all of which will likely increasingly be powered by AI in some form. But what are the major use cases for ...
03.24.2023 Pioneering the Entertainment of Tomorrow with Nic Hill - Co-Founder of Sawhorse Productions // Stranger Things, Elton John, Tommy Hilfiger and More in the Metaverse In this episode you’ll learn about what metaverse experiences can offer, what is currently working and why. Sawhorse are one of the top content studios in the world, whose clients include the likes of Netflix, Disney, Samsung, HBO, Youtube, Nike, ...
03.20.2023 5 Metaverse and AI Stories You Need to Know - Falling In Love with Chatbots, the Release of GTP-4 and What It Means, Digital Fashion Riding High, UE 5 Comes to Meta Quest and More! The metaverse and AI space moves at lightening speed so unless you're sat on Twitter for 24 hours a day, you'd be forgiven for not keeping up with all of the latest news. But don't stress yourself, The Welcome to ...
03.10.2023 Decentraland's Latest Developments and What They Mean for You (+ the Pedigree Fosterverse!) It's been a few months since we caught up with all things Decentraland, one of the most well known web3 virtual worlds. They recently put out their 2023 manifesto, titled ‘Year of the Creators’, which is a great read for ...
03.03.2023 Bring Incredible Digital Characters to Life : The Future of Human-AI Interaction with Charisma AI - w. CEO Guy Gadney How far away are we from having a realistic conversation with an AI driven character that feels like a real human experience? The answer is we’re not, it’s here, it’s called Charisma AI and you can begin playing with it ...
02.22.2023 Gaming Industry Secrets Unveiled: How Gaming Clues Reveal the Future of the Metaverse with Shahar Sorek - CMO of Overwolf In many ways the metaverse is not new. The gaming industry is the biggest entertainment industry on the planet and has been successfully creating virtual worlds and empowering users to create things for decades. 'Mods' in games (user modifications) have ...
02.17.2023 The Biggest DJ's in the World (David Guetta, Steve Aoki, Carl Cox and more) Have Joined This Metaverse - Sensorium Galaxy - w. CEO & Creative Director Sasha Tityanko What do David Guetta, Carl Cox, Steve Aoki and Armin Van Buuren all have in common? Apart from being the biggest DJs in the world, they have all joined AAA metaverse - Sensorium Galaxy. These are some of the highest ...
02.09.2023 This is the Virtual Reality Inflection Moment We've Been Waiting For w. Redpill VR Founder & CEO - Laurent Scallie Finally the major virtual reality inflection moment is here, solving one of the biggest pain points of getting VR to the masses. On this episode of the Welcome to the Metaverse podcast, we talk about the journey VR has been ...
02.05.2023 5 of The Most Mindblowing AI Tools (That aren't Chat GPT and Midjourney) - I Cloned My Voice Chat GPT has now hit 100 million users in 40 days, the fastest growing technology ever but there are numerous other mindblowing tools that can help you speed up your workflow or achieve things that were previously impossible on your ...
01.30.2023 5 of the Quickest & Easiest Virtual Worlds to Jump Into Immediately - The 'Time-to-Fun' Metaverse Test What worlds can you visit immediately, with minimal faff and get a sense of where we are today in the metaverse? This is the question we answer in todays episode. The shift to a more immersive internet is well under ...
01.18.2023 Create Your Avatar and Get In The Metaverse in Seconds with Ready Player Me - CEO and Co-Founder Timmu Tõke One of the most common questions is where is the metaverse and how can I access it? Especially from new users. Ready Player Me are the user friendly go-to platform where I usually send people. You can create a full ...

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