Pico Velasquez: How A Former Google Employee Is Shaping The Virtual Worlds Of Tomorrow

Can we build more efficient, sustainable spaces, places and cities in the real world by using virtual worlds? What works in the physical world doesn’t always translate to the metaverse. How do you integrate the physical into the virtual? How should you think about space in the metaverse?

Timestamps: 0:00 Introductions 2:50 Welcome Pico Velasquez 3:56 What do People Get Wrong About The Metaverse 6:22 Emergent Systems 11:50 Virtual World Collaboration 15:00 Geometry and Frameworks 16:44 INTERLUDE 19:00 The Senses In Virtual Worlds 24:02 Alone In the Metaverse 27:28 Digital Senses 31:00 Design Criteria Framework 40:05 Brands In The Metaverse 56:12 Digital Twins =============== About Pico Velàsquez Pico Velásquez is a Computational Architect and Multiverse Thought Leader who has presented keynotes on the Multiverse & AI at Forbes 30/50 Summit, SXSW, The Women Economic Forum and The Blockchain Futurist Conference. She’s also given lectures at Harvard, MIT Sloan, Columbia, and UCLA. Beyond keynotes and education, Pico is an advisor for multiple Fortune 500 companies on their Metaverse vision and strategy and serves as a mentor for Deep Tech & Web3 start-up incubators including Intel Ignite and Harvard, and is part of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council. She’s the founder and CEO of VIIRA, a web based platform using Gen-AI customization tools to easily build virtual 3D assets and worlds Pico uses data-driven designs to connect the physical and virtual realms through mega structures, brand experiences, and the architecture of tomorrow. Enjoy the Show. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Quotes from the show “We have digital senses, our senses that already exist that can be translated directly. But I think that each of those can be extended to higher dimensions or different versions that cannot exist in the physical world.” "You always have a gap between what the market is ready for and what is happening in the lab. There’s a lot of cool stuff happening that will be transferred at some point."

“People start combining them in new ways. It's like virtual Lego. Virtual Lego that you can use to build entire worlds and create a creator economy online.”

“There's going to be all the versions. The physical world on its own, the physical that translates into the virtual, then the virtual that is an extension of the physical, and then the virtual that is just like an extension of the physical, the virtual until eventually is just on its own.” “Do we actually need virtual shoes? No. But what does it mean to create an identity with virtual shoes? What else does that brand represent, beyond shoes? It represents a community. Go Supreme or go Nike. It's not about the shoes, it's about the community and trans-generational identity.” "Web3 came is more than a concept, it's an ethos, right? It’s about sharing, equal distribution, a more progressive, inclusive way of building communities and supporting products." "The four pillars are experience, commerce, community, and impact. Those are the ones that I mostly use in all of our projects." ⛓️ 🔗𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐓𝐨 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰🔗 ⛓️ Pico - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pico-velasquez/ VIIRA - https://www.viira.io/ ======================

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