ON POINT: The Sandbox Co-founder on rise of metaverse

ON POINT: 메타버스 플랫폼 샌드박스 공동창립자, G-STAR 참석 후기 및 앞으로 메타버스 전망 Now it’s time for On Point, where we speak to experts to delve deeper into the biggest news stories in the spotlight right now. Dubbed the evolution of the internet: the metaverse is seen as the next frontier in online tech. Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms, recently sent interest in the metaverse to new heights after it announced it was going to spend billions of dollars on its own metaverse. Facebook’s and others will be the centralized versions, but there are already plenty of decentralized versions already up and running. For more, we connect to Sebastian Borget, Co-Founder & COO of The Sandbox, a decentralized gaming virtual world. Good morning, Sebastian. You’ve spoken at the G-Star conference in Korea for the past couple of years. Last year was online due to the pandemic, but you were in Busan for this year’s event. It must’ve been nice to mingle face-to-face again. Could you sense how excitement for the metaverse has grown over th