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WTF Is the Metaverse?!
Season 1 · Episode 48

WTF Is the Metaverse?!

Chad Knight - Artist & Head of Cyberwear, Wilder World & Phoenix Wilder - Co-Founder, Wilder World

The Now Podcast · Now Media

March 2, 202253m 39sExplicit

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Show Notes

This week we’ve enlisted NFT superstar artist Chad Knight and Wilder World co-founder Phoenix Wilder to speak on the metaverse. Through 3D art and building in virtual reality, Knight and Wilder have made huge strides towards defining what the metaverse might look like in the very near future. Said to be the fabled next iteration of the internet, the metaverse seems to mean many different things depending on who you ask. From Facebook’s interest in becoming a metaverse company to the potential for people to have a complete existences living and working in a new dimension of reality — jump into the conversation to learn what all the hype is really about.


In this episode, we cover:

  • The definition of “metaverse”
  • Building virtual worlds like Wilder World
  • Chad Knight stepping down as Nike’s head of 3D Design to help build Wilder World
  • Social media, mental health and the metaverse
  • How long it might take for the metaverse to go mainstream
  • And much more!


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