Episode 002

The
Future Of
The Metaverse

In this episode of The Future Of, we look into the Metaverse and the implications of this transition on society.

Jeff Dance
Founder & CEO, Fresh Consulting
Jeff Dance
Johnny Rodriguez
Director of Innovation, Fresh Consulting
Johnny Rodriguez
Dudley Nevill-Spencer
Head of Research and Virtual Human Development at Virtual Influencer Agency
Dudley Nevill-Spencer

In this episode of The Future Of, we look into the Metaverse and the implications of this transition on society.

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The Future of The Metaverse

The internet has evolved over the years, and the fruit of this evolution is the metaverse. We exist in a time where a significant change in the history of humanity is happening, and our real lives are bound to spill over to the metaverse. In this episode of The Future Of, we look into the metaverse and the implications of this transition on society at large.

Joining us this week to explore this topic is Dudley Nevill-Spencer, Head of Research and Virtual Human Development at Virtual Influencer Agency. He founded the world’s first virtual influencer avatar and metaverse marketing agency. He’s also the Head of Research and Technology Director at Live & Breathe creative agency. In addition, we were able to speak with Tony Tran, Founder of Peer, Inc., a company whose mission is accelerating ambient computing to unlock the metaverse. Also in this episode is Johnny Rodriguez, Director of Strategic Innovation at Fresh Consulting. With his skills in UX design and software development, Johnny has worked on AI, VR, robotics, web development, and much more in the tech space.

Dudley: The way I would look at it is we’re where we are now before there was Windows. Right now, anybody who wants to be involved in this basically has to be a programmer. If you want to create your own token or a DAO or whatever, you’ve got to know a whole bunch of different programming languages that’s complex. Soon, to take part in this, there’ll be effectively an operating system like Windows but for the NFT ownership and tokenizing things, and that then means anybody can do it.

Jeff: Welcome to The Future Of, a podcast by Fresh Consulting, where we discuss and learn about the future of different industries, markets, and technology verticals. Together, we’ll chat with leaders and experts in the field and discuss how we can shape the future human experience. I’m your host, Jeff Dance.

Jeff: In this episode of The Future Of, we’re joined by Dudley Nevill-Spencer of Virtual Influencer Agency and Johnny Rodriguez from Fresh Consulting to explore the future of the metaverse. Welcome, it’s a pleasure to have you with me on this episode focused on the metaverse. We’re excited to have not only two leaders but two serious technology evangelists that think about and really work on the future.

As far as just a quick intro, Dudley founded the Virtual Influencer Agency, the world’s first virtual influencer avatar and metaverse marketing agency where he’s head of research and virtual development. He’s also an expert research and technology director at the Live & Breathe agency, which has been around for 30 years. He leads avatar and metaverse integration strategies there, in addition to AI and data insights. We’ve listened to some of his webinars on the metaverse, NFTs, and virtual humans.

Episode Host
Jeff Dance
Jeff Dance
Founder & CEO, Fresh Consulting

Jeff is Founder and CEO of Fresh Consulting. Formerly a Strategy & Operations Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, Jeff brings years of experience in the creative design and digital technology space.

Episode Guests
Johnny Rodriguez
Johnny Rodriguez
Director of Innovation, Fresh Consulting

Johnny is Fresh’s Director of Strategic Innovation who brings over 13 years of experience in user experience, interaction design, and front-end web development. He thrives on the challenge of leading interaction design.

Dudley Nevill-Spencer
Dudley Nevill-Spencer
Head of Research and Virtual Human Development at Virtual Influencer Agency

Head of Research and Virtual Human Development at Virtual Influencer Agency. He founded the world’s first Virtual Influencer Avatar and Metaverse marketing agency. He’s also the Head of Research and Technology Director at Live & Breathe creative agency.