How the Metaverse Could Change the Purpose and Feel of Cities

Listen or watch to explore:

• Overview of his background and role at Team Epic.
• Extended reality (XR) as an umbrella term used to describe immersive technologies that can merge the physical and virtual worlds. Including augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) plus those that are still to be created.
• About the Africa XR report: a community initiative to map our extended reality ecosystem for the first time, the result of a 15 month long survey. Download it here
• What exactly is 'The Metaverse' and why should people care about it.
• How governments can get involved in these extended realities.
• Latest trends in Metaverse strategies.
• Roadblocks ahead and potential dangers.
• What an average person's day can look like in the not so distant future.

About Dale Deacon
Dale P. Deacon is a digital artist and creative technologist focusing on 3D, XR, and Web3.

Career highlights include winning 3 x W3 awards, the Spirit of Raindance Award, premiering work at the Venice International Film Festival, winning the Design Prize in MONA's Renaissance of the Metaverse competition, creating digital identities for a number of notable VR personalities, and world building for intl. festival organisations including A_MAZE, RSIFF, VIFF and GoEastFF.

His VR/AR community development initiatives include co-organizing the weAReVR.jozi meetups, the AR/VR Africa Hackathon, The Metaverse Crew (MVC) community, and The Africa XR Report.

Visit: www.teamepic.org