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What Happens When the Metaverse Is More Important Than Your Reality?

Featuring Rex Woodbury and Phillip Wang

Dec 16, 2021 • 42 minutes

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The Exponential Age

What Happens When the Metaverse Is More Important Than Your Reality?

Creating opportunities for human connectivity in the Metaverse just got easier with the Gather platform.

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Featuring Rex Woodbury and Phillip Wang

Dec 16, 2021 • 42 minutes

The distance between two places just got a lot shorter. Tech enthusiast and Principal at Index Ventures Rex Woodbury interviews CEO and founder of Gather Phillip Wang about his vision for human connectivity in the Metaverse. With its inception pre-COVID, Wang’s platform allows people from all over the world to meet in a virtual reality through self-created avatars in order to work, collaborate, learn, and build. In attempt to bolster collective good, the platform is carrying out the vision of the Metaverse, a concept that would enable digital realities to achieve prominence in people's daily lives. The pair talk of the dangers and benefits of “Reality Privilege” and how our idea of reality may likely change in the coming years. Recorded on December 3, 2021.

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Exponential Age explores extraordinary new technologies and the profound change they represent not just for financial markets but also the world as we know it. It's about getting and staying just a few minutes ahead in this brave new world and profiting from that advantage.

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