Weekly Kickoff, April 5, 2021
Industries of the Metaverse, Blockchain Game funding, Rec Room party-time
Mapping out Value in the Metaverse
If you add up all the investments being made to enable the Metaverse, it is in the trillions of dollars. Here’s what the structure of this market looks like:
If you follow Building the Metaverse, I’ll be breaking down all of these in a forthcoming post.
Spatial Computing and the Post-Scarcity Economy
My tweet that I’m thinking about most this week (thanks to a great Clubhouse talk on Spatial Computing with Brooks Brown):
Observations and Reflections
- Sneaker collecting via NFTs is growing.
- Fruit Ninja, one of the iconic mobile games that launched the era, coming to Apple Arcade along with others.
- Game publisher Graffiti Games got $1.5M in funding.
- THETA is integrating with LINE, which is very popular with gamers (especially in Japan).
- Enjin, a blockchain popular with games, will support Polkadot
- My cofounder gifted me an NFT Poem on WAX (along with a few other Bitclout supporters)
- The police busted an enormous videogame cheat operation.
- Manticore raised $100M to build a competitor to Roblox that uses Unreal.
- The password was lifted from Bitclout. I’m here: https://bitclout.com/u/jradoff
- Dapper Labs, the creator of Cryptokitties and NBA Top Shot, raised $350M.
- The curated NFT marketplace SuperRare raised $9M.
- Reflected on the stereotypes around girls and how these assumptions affect what games are being created for them.
- Watched GameStop stock go up because they discovered e-commerce.
- Razer’s YoY revenue increased 48%.
- Bitclout is very popular in China. Will decentralize free social media there?
Party Time, Excellent — and you’re Invited
The Game Industry Club on Clubhouse is throwing a party in Rec Room! You don’t need to be a Clubhouse member to attend — or even a member of the Game Industry. If you’d like to see how a community can hold a celebration in the metaverse (along with digital twins of our beverages, and live music) then join our Discord for updates!
