Blake Dowling: Dipping our toes in the Florida metaverse - Florida Politics

I saw an Instagram station this week for the stone radical Motorhead and their show astatine Ozzfest 2022.

It seemed a spot unusual to me, arsenic pb vocalist Lemmy Kilmister passed distant successful caller years.

After speechmaking the details, this Ozzfest Music Festival show was a integer hologram/avatar show from the metaverse; hosted successful Decentraland.

The lawsuit was afloat of Web3 innovation (like Motorhead playing with their deceased pb singer), NFTs, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. It was besides free, arsenic happened this past weekend.

If you attended, you could tally astir the signifier clapping for the artists arsenic your virtual avatar signifier with nary fearfulness of getting injured successful the mosh pit since you are not truly there.

Some of the amusement footage reminded maine of Wii Bowling (goth version); you tin signifier your ain opinions from this video:

Need clarification connected these terms? Feeling arsenic if the satellite has passed you by?

Fear not; this file is for you. Let’s dive into the metaverse.

Decentraland, which hosted the concert, is simply a 3D satellite connected the internet, wherever visitors to the tract tin bargain virtual plots of land, socialize and galore different things.

The wealth utilized determination is simply a cryptocurrency called MANA, built from, and using, the Ethereum blockchain.

This satellite has been unfastened to the nationalist since 2020.

Sounds similar idiosyncratic had clip connected their hands during the pandemic.

Short mentation — the metaverse is simply a integer playground wherever users ain integer onshore and tin assistance govern its existence. You tin besides play games, cod creation (NFTs), and socially interact with different users.

There are astir 300,000 progressive monthly users connected this site.

What is an NFT? That is an acronym for “non-fungible token,” meaning impervious of ownership of each that integer creation you bought successful Decentraland. By now, you are either pursuing on oregon wondering if this is truly a thing.

Yes, it is, and the mundane applications are present now. Taco Bell jumped into the NFT space with the merchantability of immoderate images, and they sold retired fast.

Plus, the purchaser gets a ample acquisition card.

Other high-profile NFTs see Glenfiddich whiskey, vocalist Grimes, and William Shatner. Shatner sold 125,00 units successful 9 minutes including an X-ray of his teeth.

Sound unreal? It is precise existent with precise existent dollars (sort of) successful NFT transactions (cryptocurrency, not dollars).

Now to the metaverse.

The metaverse is the net connected speed, having a transportation oregon immersion successful the 3D satellite via a virtual world headset oregon different VR device.

Some precise chill and precise applicable things going connected successful the metaverse.

In Florida, the metropolis of Miami Gardens launched the Miami Gardens “Virtual City” Metaverse Experience.

You tin dive into a virtual mentation of the metropolis with a societal aspect. It is disposable via VR headset oregon without 1 (smartphone, PC, etc.) to guarantee it’s inclusive for all.

Users tin research events and landmarks, feeling similar they are really there.

It does not substance what you bash for a living: tally a city, negociate a campaign, a tour, a TV show, depository oregon quality publication; you could commencement diving into this satellite now.

Imagine sharing your imaginativeness with anyone astir the satellite and having them get to acquisition it successful a caller way. Why not cheque retired Miami Gardens archetypal by downloading the Ceek VR app to spot what I americium speaking about.

There is simply a batch much going connected present than touring a city, arsenic the Orlando Economic Partnership claims that they are the halfway (the metacenter) of the metaverse with implicit $1 cardinal invested successful the abstraction this year, according to WESH2 News. They picture what is going connected arsenic a golden unreserved including the tech sector, video crippled companies and more.

I reached retired to their squad (thank you Jennifer) for their perspective:

“At the Orlando Economic Partnership (the Partnership) we person catalyzed this momentum and we person taken ownership of making Orlando the MetaCenter, a portion similar nary different successful the satellite that combines creativity, technology, and innovation similar we do,” said David Adelson, Orlando Economic Partnership Chief Innovation Officer.

“Metaverse-related industries person had roots successful Orlando for decades, this is not thing we’re inventing; we are conscionable catalyzing and taking afloat vantage of our imaginable arsenic a tech hub and increasing our footprint bringing companies to either relocate oregon grow to our region. We person the talent, the workforce, and everything anyone needs to beryllium palmy successful the Metaverse,” Adelson said.

They are doing thing peculiar successful Orlando each implicit the tech abstraction with the CEO of the OEP office, Tim Giuliani, bringing location immoderate prestigious awards this year, including being named a GIS WebTech Award for Technology Leadership.

If you are looking for a competitory advantage, an borderline implicit an opponent, oregon a differentiator from everyone other successful your enactment of work, possibly you person conscionable stumbled upon one.

Perhaps it is clip to articulation the metaverse successful Florida.

Or bash you deliberation that with this column, I person lone scratched the meta-surface?

Both would beryllium connected the money.

There are applications galore to beryllium dreamed up and, yes, I person lone dipped my virtual toes into the heavy water of these subjects.

As we boldly spell into the future, look for an NFT pic of maine penning this file for merchantability soon. I americium definite it volition alert disconnected the support similar Shatner’s teeth.

Cheers to each the innovators successful this space, arsenic it isn’t often you get to usage Shatner, Ozzy, Taco Bell and Miami Gardens successful the aforesaid column; the stars person genuinely aligned.

See you retired determination successful the Florida metaverse soon.

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Blake Dowling is CEO of Aegis Business Technologies. He tin beryllium reached astatine [email protected].

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