Posts tagged Epic Games
Fintech in the Metaverse, plus NFTs, Crypto Art, and Epic Games
Fintech in the Metaverse, plus NFTs, Crypto Art, and Epic Games

Today, we’re joined by Angela Dalton to explore the fun and fantastical world that sits at the intersection of gaming, immersive technology, crypto and economics, namely, the Metaverse.

Angela is the Founder and CEO of Signum Growth Capital, an M&A advisory firm focused on emerging opportunities in fintech, especially blockchain, and digital media.

In this conversation, we discuss expectations for both recreation and work in a digital future, technological advances in recent years that underpin coming changes to immersive virtual experiences, the economics of virtual worlds and more.

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metaverse, visual art, NFTs and digital objectsLex SokolinAngela Dalton, Signum Growth Capital, Decentraland, Ethereum, World of Warcraft, VR Chat, Microsoft, HoloLens, Fortnite, Epic Games
How should Fintech react to Epic raising $2B on Fortnite's 350MM users, NY Times photogrammetric environments, and Apple's AR glasses
How should Fintech react to Epic raising $2B on Fortnite's 350MM users, NY Times photogrammetric environments, and Apple's AR glasses

Within a decade, the form factor for computing will radically change from staring at screens with flat imagery, to participating in embedded virtual worlds with fully navigable, hyper-realistic environments. Those environments will be filled with software agents, some hybrid human and others entirely AI, that are entirely unrecognizable as anything but real to 90% of the population.

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artificial intelligence, metaverseLex SokolinUBS, OpenAI, Epic Games, Fortnite, GPT-3
Apple's augmented reality leak, and what Fintech should do for the coming Multiverse
Apple's augmented reality leak, and what Fintech should do for the coming Multiverse

This week, let's dive into the Apple augmented reality glasses leak, the Magic Leap $350 million financing, and the uncanny imagery created by Epic Games' Unreal Engine. We summarize and pull apart the thesis of the Metaverse -- a virtual world as realistic and economically important as our own -- and how media and financial companies should think about the opportunity.

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augmented reality, metaverseLex SokolinDisney, Netflix, Unreal, Fortnite, Alethea, Magic Leap, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Stadia, Epic Games, Tencent