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i'm standing here in the metaverse
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it's essentially a bunch of virtual
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worlds where you can walk around as a
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digital avatar talk to other people play
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games and buy and sell things
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now before you stop watching i just want
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to say that i feel the same way as you
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what the hell
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is this is it even real and should we be
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doing anything about it
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well it's already getting pretty serious
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right now people are spending millions
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in real life money to reserve digital
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plots of land office space and
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apartments and huge names like zahid
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architects and manchester city football
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club are exploring the possibilities of
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design in the metaverse
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yes really it's a space where we're no
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longer restrained by things like you
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know gravity the principles of
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engineering or securing enough money to
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go ahead with the building projects for
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me it's not an escape into fantasy world
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and into video game like experiences but
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direct continuity with social reality
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so what does all this mean for the world
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of architecture and construction is the
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metaverse really going to end up being a
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thing what could we build without the
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limits of construction here on earth and
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how might that impact the way we create
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our physical world in the future
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big tech big brands big ambitions and
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the metaverse is the next frontier if
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you're listening and that was a little
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bit over your head don't worry because
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i'm right there with you if you're
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anything like me before i made this
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video you might be thinking is anyone
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actually building the metaverse yet or
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is it just a bunch of corporate techy
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buzzwords that no one really understands
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it's called decentralized finance
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blockchain blockchain crypto
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cryptocurrency nft
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what is driving this doge mania and
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where does it go from here and yes there
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are a ton of buzzwords i'm not here to
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preach the gospel of an fts or get you
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to invest in tomorrow's build coin i'm
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also not going to try and explain the
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ins and outs of the metaverse to you
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because frankly i can't in its most
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basic form it's a network of virtual
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worlds that you can access parts of
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through your computer or if you want to
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be more immersed in it a vr headset
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i was pretty shocked to learn that
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people were partying with real money to
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buy virtual real estate in this new
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world but they are and as i said it's
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getting serious
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now first off the metaverse isn't owned
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by one single company and it's not one
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single app facebook's parent company now
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called meta of course is leading the
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development of this new digital world
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depending who you ask it's either the
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future or a whole bunch of hypotheticals
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meta hasn't exactly been raking in the
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cache yet in february 2022 the company
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set the record for the largest single
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day trading loss of any company ever
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they must really believe in this
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metaverse stuff
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one thing that certain and potentially
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crazy is that there's a lot of money
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being put into reserving and securing
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digital plots of land to build
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everything from virtual offices to
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shopping centers and even sports
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stadiums well the real estate investors
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are paying millions of dollars for plots
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of land that don't even exist all those
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spaces need to be designed and we have a
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whole industry of people who are kind of
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already doing that
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if you looked at a typical architecture
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studio or construction site just 50
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years ago you'd probably find rolls of
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paper drawings and diagrams marked up
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and sprawled out across the site but in
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the 1990s a little something called the
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internet took off
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you can now glimpse the future with
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nothing more than a modem a phone line
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and a few dollars a month allison can
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you explain what internet is in the
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mid-90s columbia university's school of
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architecture launched the first
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paperless studio and at the time that
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was a pretty radical concept but we've
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come a long way
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today digital design models are the
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design process and working environment
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the graphical 3d models and renders they
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enable let us check how a building will
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look and feel before actually sending a
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crew out to begin construction but in
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the metaverse that digital render isn't
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just a step along the way it is the
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final destination in this reality you
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don't have to think about how to
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counteract the weight of a skyscraper
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sinking into the soil or how the roof
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will hold up in a storm we are trying to
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bring our actual expertise into the
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metaverse as we used to be architects
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working super digital focused on
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visualizations there is just no no laws
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for us when we bring architecture into
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the metaverse
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patrick vogel a trained architect has
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gone from designing real world buildings
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to launching his own metaverse
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architecture studio called shift space
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we use tools like 3ds max rhino also
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houdini for more complex shapes
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grasshopper and then we try to translate
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this to this sandbox metaverse creation
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tools that you have you have to build
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everything out of boxes so this might be
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also the reason why maybe some 3d people
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would call it a bit cheesy or cheap at
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the moment because the metaverse is
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basically just being created by the time
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we're speaking right now so it's it's
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all in
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germany we say in in kindergarten in
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children's shoes
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they've partnered with a metaverse
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platform called sandbox to create a
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series of metaverse mansions to be
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auctioned off we were like ah yeah we
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have to sell this and maybe we will we
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will be millionaires of course we are
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not it went really really good and
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it sold for about i think 57 000
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and we were like of course having a good
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evening that day
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now you might be wondering why on earth
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someone would pay tens of thousands of
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dollars to own a house that only exists
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online well i'm wondering that too but
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some worlds in the metaverse are
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creating a scarcity effect
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every realm is one of the companies at
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the forefront of metaverse real estate
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and development yes this is a real thing
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and it is really happening they've
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worked on over a hundred real estate
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developments in metaverse worlds where
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there's a limited number of plots of
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land available for people to buy rent
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and sell now the process of actually
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buying that land involves cryptocurrency
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and the blockchain and a lot of stuff
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that i don't want to pretend to
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understand right now but the gist is
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people are betting that in the future
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they're going to be able to develop the
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land and build residences that someone
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might want to rent out
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virtually or build a store that a real
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brand would want to spend real money to
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advertise or sell their products in
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again virtually
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and for now at least the demand really
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is
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there now metaverse architecture isn't
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all about making a quick buck some top
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architects are using it as a way to push
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the bounds of design you might have
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heard of parametric design in
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architecture the free-flowing futuristic
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style influenced heavily by computer
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algorithms a lot of that comes from this
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guy patrick schumacher he was zahardi's
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right-hand man and is now the practice's
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principal architect and that means he
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has a lot of influence in the world of
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design and he's getting in on the
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metaverse
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in my case in our case now the
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architects we are heavily
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investing currently in in that and
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building teams around that multiple
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projects coming online but we don't want
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to
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switch away from architecture in the
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physical world and urbanism in the
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physical world so i think that can be a
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multi-disciplinary
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design firm in fact zahadid architects
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is working to create a metaverse version
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of lieberland that's a micronation
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proposed by a libertarian czech
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politician no you're not dreaming this
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is all really happening in the real
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world liberland is just a few square
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miles between croatia and serbia but the
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metaverse version paints a picture of
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what it could be a futuristic crypto
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paradise
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so the design remains pretty much driven
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by the same social functionality
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criteria of organization of you know
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aesthetics phenological orientation and
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then the engineering stack is obviously
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radically different but we use gravity
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as an orienting device you don't want to
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be have things flying around in all
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directions and it gives a certain
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stability but we don't have you know
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physical forces to deal with so we have
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a new set of constraints but they also
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have parallels even you know we love
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curvature and we love the light to play
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on the curvature so this is expensive
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both in the physical world and in the
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virtual world because these geometries
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are more complex
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and harder to render so it's quite
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curious that what's expensive in the
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physical world is it also turns out to
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be expensive in the virtual world
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of course there are more ground examples
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of architecture in the metaverse
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manchester city football club is
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creating the world's first metaverse
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football stadium with the virtual
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reality team sony with no limit on how
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many people can fit in the virtual
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stadium in theory there's no cap on the
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amount of people who could attend a
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match and you wouldn't be limited to
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just one seat with one point of view the
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virtual stadium could give fans the
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chance to watch a game from multiple
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angles in real time no battling the
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crowds to get home no cold weather no
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overpriced beers
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now i'm not at all convinced that our
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future is going to be full of people
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sitting in their houses with vr headsets
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over their heads feel free to watch this
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video back in years to come and quote me
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on that
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but i can kind of see the value the
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metaverse could offer the design world
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it's a chance to think creatively
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without restrictions and with all the
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attention and investment in digital
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design it's a good opportunity for the
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industry to show what it's capable of
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digital cities don't just have to live
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in the metaverse just look at digital
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twins today designers are already
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creating virtual clones of real-life
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buildings or even entire cities those
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models can monitor real-time traffic
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patterns building maintenance and even
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simulate what would happen if the city
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were to be hit by a natural disaster
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that all makes it easier to make better
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decisions about how to manage our built
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environments without having to wait
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until issues begin to show
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so as far-fetched as the metaverse may
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seem the concept of a virtual world
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might actually help us save the one
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we're building today
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i think it will be very satisfying
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experience and my hope is that it is not
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means that we all sit at home that we
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are out together in these mixed reality
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scenarios where where we where the urban
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environments the architectural
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environments are infused with windows
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into the virtual world with augmented
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information with holographic
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telepresencing of participants from
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around the world so that's true
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globalization without the physical
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isolation that's my vision and my dream
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of the metaverse
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if you enjoyed this video or even just
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