SAG-AFTRA Podcast: “Making Sense of the Metaverse”

If you’ve been following the latest happenings in tech, you have likely heard of the metaverse. What may at first seem like a new buzzword among the tech-savvy is a shared, experimental space expected to bring real life changes to what we currently understand about social media, and with it, entertainment and media. But, is the metaverse really the wave of the future, or is it simply hype?

These and other questions were brought to SAG-AFTRA’s CES 2023 C Space Studio programming, Future Shock: The Tech and Trends Changing Entertainment. Joining SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director & Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland were a collective of content creators and tech and entertainment industry professionals: Calaxy Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Solo Ceesay; Unity Technologies Director, Live Entertainment Boo Wang; Amazon Web Services Senior Business Development Manager Charles Okochu and SAG-AFTRA Manager, Contract Strategic Initiatives Shaine Griffin. Together, the group deep-dive into discussing the metaverse and what its advent means for performers, entertainers and influencers. 

Episode introduction by SAG-AFTRA Executive Vice President Ben Whitehair and Crabtree-Ireland. 

Future Shock panels are available for view on sagaftra.org/videos. 

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The views expressed by the guests are their own and not that of SAG-AFTRA. Any mention of products or services does not imply SAG-AFTRA’s endorsement.