Jon Radoff Podcasts and Interviews
Here is a roundup of some of the more recent podcsts, videos and interviews I’ve given on the Metaverse as well as my startup — Beamable — which is building a live game platform that makes it easy for Unity developers to build games and experiences for the metaverse.
Updated: November 2, 2021
Building the Metaverse: YouTube Channel
My YouTube channel has regular episodes about topics related to the metaverse (scroll down the page for a few specific examples) as well as fireside chats with thought leaders from the industry.
Building The Metaverse: Latest Podcast Episode
If you like to listen to podcasts rather than watch videos, you can listen in podcast form. The entire catalog of Building the Metaverse videos is in this episode guide on Anchor. Here’s the most recent episode:
Listening to the Future (podcast): Metaverse Deep Dive
October 31, 2021
Jarno is a great technology interviewer. We spoke about a wide range of topics pertaining to the metaverse: Facebook’s recent announcement, augmented and virtual reality, creator economies, NFTs and blockchain, decentralization, open standards and more. This is a good one for technology enthusiasts:
Invest Like a Boss: Metaverse Vision Quest
September 30, 2021
For people who want more of a mass-market introduction to the ideas of the metaverse, especially for those who are looking it through the lens of the investment markets, I recently appeared on Invest Like a Boss:
Enter the Metaverse on the Simulated Universe
I spoke with Riz Virk about Snow Crash, science fiction, and the ways SF are become reality (as well as some of the differences from Neal Stephenson’s origin idea):
Deconstructor of Fun (podcast): Metaverse, NFTs and Creator Economies
I appeared on Deconstructor of Fun to talk about the metaverse — we covered a lot of ground, but especially the relationship of the metaverse to game development; NFTs (non-fungible tokens, a new business model for games) and the creator economy for game developers.
Playmakers (podcast): “Shots on Goal” — The Basics of Success in Video Games
On this episode of the Playmakers podcast, I was invited to discuss my experience making games like Star Trek Timelines and Game of Thrones Ascent, and how “shots on goal” (giving yourself enough runway and flexibility to adapt to market feedback) is so important to building successful games:
Video: What is the Metaverse?
I created a YouTube video to give a quick explanation to what the metaverse is:
Video: 9 Megatrends Shaping the Metaverse
I summarized my longer article on the megatrends that are affecting the metaverse in this video. Some of the topics I cover: virtual mainstreaming (the importance of digital identity); the rivalry between walled-garden ecosystems (closed platforms) versus open standards like OpenXR and WASM; machine intelligence; the rise of cybernetics; low-code and no-code platforms; simulating reality; accelerating distributed networks (5G, 6G, cloud and edge computing); and blockchain adoption (ethereum and smart contracts).
Video (GameDev.tv): Creative Leadership in Games
We discussed a wide range of topics including leading creative teams, NFTs, managing runway and agile development, building/managing your audience, and dealing with IPs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LudGRQFMC6Q
Video: Pivoting, Pandemic and Reorganizing
In this video interview I discussed the pivot from being a game studio (Disruptor Beam) to a software infrastructure company — and how we did it through a complicated reorganization and a new financing, right in the throes of the pandemic:
Clubhouse: Game Industry Club and Metaverse Mondays
Every week at 3PM ET, I host a talk called Metaverse Monday. We cover everything from game development to the future of the Internet. Join us for a live interactive talk! The easiest way to get notified is to follow me on Twitter, or to join the Game Industry club.
Further Reading
If you’d rather read my articles than hear me talk, here are a few places to begin:
- Experiences of the Metaverse — a good introductory article about the metaverse, in which you can learn what sort of things it does from a consumer standpoint.
- Metaverse Megadeck — in which I cover 160+ companies, the 9 megatrends and 7 industry layers in around 90 slides of easy-to-flip-through material.
- Market Map of the Metaverse — in which I describe the 7 industry layers and a lot of the companies that are working to build the metaverse.
- Building the Business Foundation for the Metaverse is an article laying out the vision for my company, Beamable, which is equipping people with everything they need to become game creators.
