PinnedRiz VirkinEntrepreneurship HandbookA Guide to Venture Capital Funding video game startupsI often get requests from early stage video game-related startups asking for intros to investors who invest in games. In the past, there…·18 min read·Apr 30, 2021--1--1
Riz VirkOn New Years Day, I’m thinking of Arthur C.Six years ago today, I visited Sri Lanka, and while I was there with my old Sri Lankan Classmate from MIT, Prasath, we visited the…8 min read·Jan 1, 2024--1--1
Riz VirkinPoint of ContactThe Government Should Come Clean on Recovered Alien Craft and Bodies … For All of Our SakeYou might be forgiven for thinking that recent news about UFOs and Congress seems straight out of out of 1990s science fiction like…6 min read·Jul 25, 2023--1--1
Riz VirkHappy New Year From Inside the Simulation: Reflecting on the Nature of Cycles of Time, Free Will…A simulation theory NFT you can get here9 min read·Jan 1, 2023--1--1
Riz VirkRemembering Yaqub: A Restless World Traveler Who Lived The American DreamA Tribute to the Life of My Father49 min read·Nov 28, 2022----
Riz VirkThreads of the Metaverse — A Comparative FrameworkBy Rizwan Virk, College of Global Futures, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, ASU18 min read·Aug 18, 2022--5--5
Riz VirkA Death in the Metaverse, A Mystery circa 2045by Rizwan Virk and Kacy Hatfield21 min read·Jul 25, 2022----
Riz VirkMetaverse Imaginaries Vignette #2: A Day in the Life of an Engineer, AI , AR and VRAs part of my doctoral research on the metaverse, I am creating some sci-fi vignettes which can be used as “imaginaries” of the future of…10 min read·Feb 14, 2022----
Riz VirkinPredictMetaverse Imaginaries, Sci Fi Vignette #1:The Future of Work, Land, Investing in the Metaverse10 min read·Feb 8, 2022----
Riz VirkSpiderman, Marvel and DC: How superhero films are embracing the MultiverseParallel worlds and multiple spidermen — the ‘multiverse’ that dominates the next spate of superhero films sounds like a fantasy. But is…6 min read·Dec 14, 2021--1--1