The Business Of Metaverse Architecture, Ft. Sunken Blimp

Metaverse architecture becomes more interesting when it moves beyond spectacle and starts to answer a commercial question: who pays, what is built and what value does the space create?

Stephen Drew speaks with Matheus Stancati of Sunken Blimp about metaverse architecture as a business, including virtual showrooms, events, client work, behaviour data, community, design affordance and the bridge between physical and virtual space.

The conversation covers:

• How metaverse architecture can move from passion project to paid work
• Why virtual showrooms and events create commercial use cases
• How behaviour data can inform virtual environment design
• What architects and designers can learn from game-like spatial tools
• Why community and research still matter in virtual design

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Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction to the business of metaverse architecture
• 05:00 Sunken Blimp, virtual worlds and communicating in new ways
• 10:00 Walking through projects and learning from 2D plans
• 15:00 Behaviour data, presentations and redesigning virtual stages
• 20:00 Commercial virtual showrooms and client use cases
• 25:00 Design affordance, geometry and how virtual spaces communicate
• 30:00 Presentations, media and using the metaverse as a venue
• 35:00 Community, TikTok and building projects in public
• 40:00 Research, physical land and bridging virtual and real space
• 45:00 Final questions and where metaverse architecture could go next

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