Apr 18, 2022
Rafael Brown is a game designer, game developer, XR technologist, and studio head. He is a 25 year veteran of the game industry, who traces his roots to Looking Glass and Thief, and saw this generation of virtual reality start on John Carmack’s desk 11 years ago while working on Rage. Rafael loves building virtual worlds. He has been dreaming of the metaverse since watching Tron in the theater as a kid and reading Neuromancer a couple years later. During the pandemic, he founded Symbol Zero, which builds games, virtual worlds, virtual concerts, and cloud platforms. Symbol Zero is Roblox’s virtual concert partner having built the Lil Nas X virtual concert experience, the second largest virtual concert in history, and many other concerts for Sony Music and Warner Music in Roblox.
We talked about development of the gaming industry, where it's at today, how does web 3 and metaverse affect gaming industry and what does its future look like?