AnotheReality
Politecnico di Milano - B2.1 Room (Via Bonardi, Bld 14)
October 18th, 2022
at 2.30 pm
Contacts:
Pier Luca Lanzi
Research Line:
Data, web, and society
Everybody is crazy about the metaverse: media is constantly talking about it as the future internet is already happening. Every week, we hear about some company opening their space in the metaverse or about someone having bought a hundred square meters of pixels for tens of thousands of euros. But where is this "metaverse"? How do I visit those newly spaces opened from brands? Why do we need it? Why the metaverse seems to be today, but it's always "in the future," while life is still happening with HTTP and web browsers? In this talk, we will try to declutter what a "metaverse" is today, how it is built, and why the likes of Roblox and Fortnite are now called metaverses while, two years ago, they were called multiplayer video games. We will try to answer these questions and discuss why the metaverse was intended to be one and only one, but you'll continue to read metaverse-s, plural, for a while.
The event will be held online by Webex.
Fabio Mosca is the co-founder and CTO at AnotheReality, an XR development studio focused on entertainment and interactive simulations for training and education. He started when he was three with personal computers and video games. He graduated in Computer Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano and specialized in video game design and development. In 2014, he was among the first Italian indies to experiment with reality virtual reality, working with clients and startups and releasing his first title, Yon Paradox, in 2016. In the same year, he co-founded AnotheReality, a company specialized in virtual transformation and development of virtual worlds, dedicating himself to the technological strategy enabled by immersive realities, from video games, of the metaverse and its design. He is a VR evangelist teaching virtual reality classes IED, Bocconi, Digital Bros Game Academy, and many others.
