This episode, Jason and Philip are joined by Jonathan Stringfield, VP of Global Business Research and Marketing at Activision Blizzard and author of the insightful and genuinely helpful "Get in the Game: How to Level Up your Business with Gaming, Esports and Emerging Technologies." They discuss a bevy of topics including how gaming has traditionally been used to bring along new audiences to new tech, how the metaverse shouldn’t be confused with VR and and why the current iteration of the metaverse still isn’t quite ready for primetime. If the editor didn’t cut it out, they also reminisce about outdated gaming consoles and peripherals because they’re just at that age now, I guess.

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About Jonathan Stringfield:

Jonathan Stringfield is a research and marketing executive specializing in technology and gaming, having spent almost 20 years at companies such as Facebook (Meta), Twitter, and most recently as VP of Global Business Research & Marketing at Activision Blizzard. He is the author of the recently released book, Get in Game: How to Level Up your Business with Gaming, Esports, and Emerging Technology, out now on Wiley Business Press wherever books are sold. Jonathan is a regularly published contributor/speaker in technology on topics ranging from ad-tech to marketing science and consumer psychology, with contributions and/or unique perspectives on gaming/advertising featured in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, AdWeek, Campaign, Barrons, and Business Insider.

Jonathan holds a PhD in Sociology, where his work concentrated on how users of new technology perform concepts such as personal identity, and has been published in academic journals on a diverse range of topics including new media, population displacement, and residential housing discrimination.

Relationships are complicated. Relationships with people expressed as pixels are even more complicated. Jason and Philip discuss how strange human connections in a virtual forum can get before being joined by Dr. Joan Irvine, a multitalented consultant and Doctor of Clinical Hypnotherapy whose insights on sex, love and relationships in the metaverse come from decades of experience with online child protection and the adult entertainment industry.

https://www.drjoanirvine.com/

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Our co-hosts, Philip and Jason, talk about how money works in life and the metaverse and how everything need not be about crypto or tokens. Good thing too as crypto winter struck during recording sessions. Learn how this impacted our humble show and enthusiasm for monetizing the metaverse at large.

Jason and Philip are back to discuss how property might work in the metaverse and why real world conceptions of ownership and scarcity just don’t make sense in a virtual existence. Special guest Charles Smith of Nifty Island explains how his open, player owned, virtual world favors the creation easily exportable and exchangeable virtual assets to create a meritocratic metaverse platform. Warning: some reference of John Locke’s theory of utilitarianism contained within.

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Join our intrepid hosts, Jason Chung and Philip Milestone, two lawyers (but not your lawyer) as they start their journey into understanding the metaverse. Listen as dreamer Philip ponders metaphysics of the metaverse and practical Jason wonders how it a metaverse is defined and if World of Warcraft counts as one.

Greetings MetaSapiens!

What the Meta is your fun and informative podcast partner in figuring out what the metaverse is and can be. Join Jason Chung and Philip Milestone, two metaspace lawyers, wonks and educators, as they grapple with their virtual lives and identities and figure out how to engage with a new plane of existence. Helping them on their journey are a host of friends – top thinkers, personalities and renegades – who explain key concepts of life such as citizenship, property and love in the metaverse.