I often get requests from early-stage video game-related startups asking for intros to investors who invest in games. There were only a few gaming-focused VC funds in the past, but this number has grown significantly in recent years. In February of his year (2021), GamesOne released a list of the…
Parallel worlds and multiple spidermen — the ‘multiverse’ that dominates the next spate of superhero films sounds like a fantasy. But is it?
Sometimes yesterday’s science fiction inspires today’s science, and sometimes it’s the other way around. Take, for instance, William Shatner’s (aka Captain Kirk’s) recent trip to space, or…
Some of you may know that i’ve started at the School for the Future of Innovation and Society in the College of Global Futures at ASU to work on a PhD. My research areas will be, roughly speaking, the emerging metaverse from a set of imaginaries (term that academics like…
“Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves,
Scheherazade had a thousand tales,
But master you’re in luck because up your sleeves
You got a brand of magic never fails…I’m in the mood to help you dude
You ain’t never had a friend like me”-Friend Like Me (Aladdin, 2019…
In a follow up to The Simulation Hypothesis, MIT Computer Scientist Rizwan Virk explores the Multiverse using Simulation Theory, Video Games and the Mandela Effect
San Francisco, CA — August 12, 2021 — MIT computer scientist and Silicon Valley video game designer Rizwan Virk announced the much anticipated follow up…
By Rizwan Virk
Rizwan Virk is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur, founder of Play Labs @ MIT and author of The Simulation Hypothesis. An earlier, shorter version of this article appeared on NBCNews/THINK
In our era of life-changing innovation, there are typically three major pillars of innovation: government, academia,and industry…
Unless you’ve been under a superhero rock, you have probably heard that Warner Brothers released a four hour cut of Zack Snyder’s Justice League (previously called “The Snyder Cut”) last week exclusively on HBO Max, giving us the streaming version of the “extended cut” DVDs like those for the Lord…
I am no fan of the power that Apple and Google assert over the ecosystem of mobile developers with the power to pull any app, effectively cutting them off from a large percentage of smartphone users. In fact, I’ve argued that they are de facto monopolies, more akin to Big…
Ready Player Two, the sequel to Ernest Kline’s bestselling ode to 80s geek culture, Ready Player One that was turned into a blockbuster movie about Virtual Reality (VR) by Steven Spielberg, was released recently. …
Are recent advances finally getting us to the point where AI and humans will be indistinguishable?
Recently, the Guardian, one of the UK’s most popular outlets, released op-ed with a provocative title: “A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?”. …
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