 I love playing around with all of this stuff. As you can see, I do take directions very well. My favorite grade to teach was kindergarten because they're like, their minds are like blank slates and you can get them to do all kinds of stuff, funny stuff and interesting stuff. But it was kind of like still hurting cats and I kind of equate that when I speak at work-hand conferences because everybody goes to this. You get to the point where you're getting ready to talk and you want to do something. And that sometimes that imposter syndrome sometimes hits you. And it's like you think, okay, do I really know what I'm doing? I got my slides all set. Everything's good. You kind of sort of think about what could possibly go wrong. And then you're like, I'll forget it. I know more than everybody else. And you keep going forward. You kind of make it up as you go along. But we're going to talk about the metaverse. We're here at work-hand buffalo. And my dear wives get that together. So we're going to be good with that. So I'm going to ask three people a question. Okay, so you just give me your best answer. So first of all, young lady right here, your definition of what is the metaverse? And if you don't know, it's okay to say you don't know. You don't know? Okay. All right, young lady in the corner in the back. What is AR? Commented reality. There you go. Thank you. Can you explain a little bit more in detail? What you think of it? We don't want a Google answer. Okay, I guess it's a way that an object or an experience is integrated into something like some kind of technological tool in general. All right, good answer. Thank you. Young man in the back, what is VR? What is your definition for VR? Commented reality. Okay. Putting on a big headset and then being in some other world. Okay. Very good. Very good. And young man right here, what is your definition of WordPress? I know the source platform. All right, very good. Thank you for all of them because we're going to go through this and kind of see how we can blend all of this together so that way it's not just talking about one part of multiple parts to a big part, a big piece of what we all know is WordPress and WordCamp. So the speed of thought is not just a phrase, it's a fact of life because if you remember last year we didn't have any conversations too much about AR, VR, MR, XR, all that kind of stuff. So now it's all mixed together. People are trying to figure out how are you going to apply it? Come on in. How are we all going to apply it to what we do related to WordPress and how it's going to affect because it isn't future WordCamps. And Aida and I, we have conversations about what's the future going to be like in a funny kind of sort of joking way that we're all going to be avatars going to WordCamps and the metaverse and hanging out, which will eventually happen. And for getting people to understand that this is the world that we live in is so much going on. But again, try not to be scared of it. Try not to worry about like drastic, crazy stuff. It's a little bit about me and about what we're doing. As far as teaching, I was helping physical education. Did I transition to STEAM? So STEAM is Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math. And again, Aida and I, we did WordCamps and Jacksonville. We're from Jacksonville, Florida. Let's put a tone in there. See, she's used to it. We're from Jacksonville, Florida. Northeast part of Florida. And we're both educators. Obviously, we're both married. Because I take directives really good, most of the time. And we love doing this. I've been a part of WordCamps. WordCamps has been part of the community since 2010. And Aida's been part of the community since 2018. And our first WordCamp, we went together with Miami. And that was their 10th year anniversary. So as we were more involved in the community, it's like we love the friendship and the things that we learn that we take back to Jacksonville. We teach to the kids that we work with. But Aida teaches adults, specifically older women, to emphasize their technology engagement is really important. Because there's a lot of data related to that. But this is us. This is what we do. We're part of the World Metaverse Council Education, which is a new international group that focuses on education and technology. There's a group called Gatherverse. They're more in-depth in the metaverse in education. So a lot of it deals with education, but it also can be transported into careers as well. And we love to focus on that because we love to say, hey, you can't be stagnant in this world of technology. You have to be able to know and grow. Here's the feedback information, how to connect with me, and also how to connect with Aida as well. So we do answer our emails, our Twitter, our Instagram. What else? Sometimes Slack. Sometimes Slack. Yeah, Slack. You get all that kind of stuff. Aida's like, hey, check this out. He's better at it than I am. So, you know, all these elements. And we always apologize. I say, would you send us a message in this within a week? You know, it's because we're looking at other stuff. But we all get inundated sometimes for doing that. So my brand is my Quest to Teach. I'm sorry to put up with you. I'm sorry. Aida's brand is Love Built Life. So we have a company together, but we have our separate companies as well, which makes it interesting being in husband and wife because we always remind each other it's not a competition. You know, this is a collaboration and a cooperative effort here. But interesting enough, we're both the oldest in our families. Oldest for her brother and her sister, her mother. So it's like, we always have this oldest mentality. Like, yeah, I need to be like up here and keep it going. So I am a role model for my younger brothers and sisters. But that's an interesting thought because the older you get, sometimes you still have that mentality that your brothers and sisters or your younger brothers and sisters, you want to treat them that way. So you have to be careful with that thought. I'm happily 60. I'll be 61 June 10th of this year. And the reason I said it, because if I could be energetic like this about technology, I'd like to inspire other people to be as energetic as well. Because there's a lot to learn and there's a lot to do and a lot to grow. So welcome to WCBUL. And I created this in Paint 3D. And we do a workshop where we teach kids how to create NFTs with Paint 3D. Now, if you don't know what an NFT is, non-fungible token, which is on a blockchain, but these are unblocked NFTs. I mean, they're not on the blockchain when we teach kids how to create NFTs in a business model we use. So there's a lot of different technologies out there. So this is our opportunity to collaborate and share information. We always like to encourage everybody. Before you leave WordCamp, make sure you have everybody that you see their business information because this is a great collaborative effort. Right? It's good. So we have to work together. Collaborate together. And in my 33 years of teaching, even in education, I have never seen a community that works so well together as a WordPress. Now, in education, you may have American Federation of Teachers, National Education Association, all of that. They have their own agenda. But in our understanding of WordPress, it's like you can communicate with so many wonderful, bright, smart, intelligent, creative people in different areas of technology. So I have no artistic bone in my body, but my wife is an artist and author. So if I need something about artwork and color and stuff, I go to her. If I need information about podcasting, because we do a podcast with a mini-school, we volunteer, you know, I'll ask Michelle or a couple of other people who are podcasting. Web development is different people we ask about web development because we help people with that as well. But in our WordPress community, there's so much to do, and we always like to say, we're on transformative times. Okay, we're almost to the point where when we had this discussion, that's about we're going to get a car and our car is almost like kit. Remember kit, the car, that's like talking to you. We're almost to that point. They're almost driving themselves. They're navigating with all this technology. So we're at that point where electricity and all this stuff messes together and AI. So you can't get away from it. You can't get away from it. A metaverse is changing people's lives. One day we're going to have a metaverse platform for WordPress where if someone can't attend because of distance or they're isolated or whatever, they're going to come in as avatars. We're going to cover avatars in a little bit. So we need to make sure that we pivot to embracing the technology and gradually learning more about it. The most frightening thing you can have is if somebody starts talking about a new technology and automatically in your brain, you think you have to learn everything about it and be an expert. So be real cautious about people with new technologies that say they're the expert of that technology when it's just coming out. You learn as much as you can. The important thing is that you learn how to apply it to your particular area of your expertise, to your knowledge ability where you can take it and perform it and apply it. So when you read information like this, we're all WordPressers, so we're all WordPressers, and as I said before, we need to be able to have digital pivots. When we're changing, how do we take AR? How do we take AI? How do we take VR? How do we take blogging? How do we take all the stuff that we do and apply it to Web3 technologies which are coming? So there is something called IoT. Tell us what their definition of IoT is. And you probably got it in your Internet of Things. Thank you. The Internet of Things. And the Internet of Things are applying all this technology and how you as the individual in your business or your company work within the realm of the Internet of Things. And that includes robotics. So for example, MR, AR, VR. If you take all those elements and you understand that those deal with virtual environments, how are you going to take a virtual environment and apply it to what you do as a WordPresser? So if you're a web developer, how are you going to use the knowledge of those technologies for your web design for the future? Because you may have a young person in these ages, it's not a common when I say young person between 18 and 32 that create a business, start making a lot of money, they want to expand and they need an awesome, wonderful, exciting out-of-the-box website to develop. But they want to integrate this new technology. So how do you integrate that new technology into what you're doing? So your job is to figure out what's available, what's out here. There's new widgets or plugins that you can use to adapt to your website. And a lot of it is web-based. So it may be just a plugin. It may be just a web address. It may be something simple. So I go by the word kids, keep it simple simple. How simply can you embed it and work with the technology? I'm not a developer. I'm not an artist. I'm not anything technical like, but the stuff that I use, in my mind I have to keep it as basic as if I'm talking to a young person, like this young person over here and they have an idea for business. You're ultimately going to be a website. You're ultimately going to use social media. So when you're using those elements what technology do you have in your mind that you need to apply it to, to build your following, to build sponsorships, to build the elements to keep your business growing and flowing forward and make it fun. Because my thing is, if you can make it fun and enjoyable, you know, you're going to have success with it. AI and web, I have three, four, there's different versions where three we hear a lot about, where four we hear a lot about and where five we're coming off. So it's different ways you integrate with tech. Also, in the internet of things you have how are you going to work with robotics? It's going to come in time, and you can do it a little bit in Gmail, where you can set where your email is scheduled to be sent down. So if your email is scheduled to be sent down the other part of that is you don't know if an actual person is going to read that email and reply to it. It may be an IO, a bot, an AI bot. So how are you going to mentally yourself reply to an AI bot sending you questions and answering your questions you have for potential clients? Because we're getting to the point where automation is just instantaneous. I mean, it's there so we have to deal with it. WordPress needs to be able to collaborate globally. There are work camps in India. There's work camps in Africa. I think there's work camps everywhere except Antartica and they're working on that too. So they're like global in process. So understanding people culturally is really important as well. We had a conversation when we were coming over here with our Uber driver and he was from India and just understanding the background and culture, how you apply technology, your family related to things is really important too because people are going to look at you as an assistive technology, as a nuisance, as a threat because there's information out here now about the threat of what's going on in the metaverse and how that's going to affect us personally and in our business. So we're talking about what the metaverse is. If all of us were avatars and we're coming into a created room and we're sitting down and we're having a conversation, we can do this as avatars. The cool thing about it is our avatar will represent who we are and what we are. So if we want a different color hair, different color eyes, different color body style, shape or whatever, we can all do that in the metaverse. We can all still engage in conversations and we can share information. So it's more of a representation of who we are. Being in the metaverse also allows us to get us to walk around. We're at a work-in conference and you're not particularly one to be in a particular room. You can teleport or port to another room. So you don't just physically want to get us to walk out the door. There are virtual worlds, there are universities on the metaverse. We are certified virtual reality educators with Victory XR so that's an online application where we can go in and create rooms and give instruction and have classes. There are universities that are on the metaverse that have classes just like in physical form. So when you hear these terms, you start to understand the importance and the impact of it. There are hundreds of metaverses in virtual worlds. You heard of Facebook changing their name to meta. Well, they proclaim that meta is what they try to, there are only metaverse out here but there are hundreds of metaverses out here. So don't get misled into thinking one is better than the other because they all provide information and access specific to what the developers and designers have created for me. Anybody have a question? So looking at the metaverse it's a global world. So here we're on the planet earth. In the metaverse you can go to Mars, Venus, Saturn wherever you want to go and standing out of space there's a space in the metaverse called the International Space Station and just imagine you're standing there and the International Space Station comes by you and you hear like the rumbling of sound and emotion and what's interesting is first of all you're in the metaverse, you're in space and you sound and it's kind of like because you're sounding. So you're going through and you're standing in and you see all the clouds around you and it's very immersive because you're looking around you, you're turning around you're looking up, you're looking down you look down and it's nothing but black with stars. So your mind is like oh my gosh I'm in space I've got everything around me that's going on but to make it immersive you still have the sound of being in space of space did have sound and then you can go into the metaverse but you can go into the International Space Station that's just one area but you're floating you're immersive in all of that so you look at understanding that technology how it's created but if you have someone that says I want you to design a website where people can click on links or use a plugin to go into the metaverse to experience those things so there's a metaverse called Spatial where you can create galleries and you want like a museum but they're interactively you can teleport you can click on a portal go outside to YouTube or you can go to a website so you have access to all of those elements because there's a lot of people when you hear discussions well how am I going to take my WordPress developed awesomely made wonderfully made and I spent hours and days and weeks creating and have access to the metaverse right now it's just a linking concept of the metaverse the other concept is how can myself as an avatar be placed into a WordPress design website so that technology is not there yet but it's coming but your avatar can move around in different metaverses if you go to ready player me ready player dot me you can create multiple avatars and have the opportunity now to play with it to look at it to look around it and use it Neil Stevenson in 1992 wrote a book called snow crash and this is where the term came from and actually he's still alive he's still in a lot of talks about his concept of metaverse why he wrote the book and all that great information but the concept is with blending with AI artificial intelligence now if you are a fan you already understand artificial intelligence because when they talk to the computer that's the same concept they would tell the computer to do different things and the computer would reply so if you have Alexa AI technology Google AI technology in the earlier parts of Gmail Google mail Gmail when you're typing it just did what you wanted to do now it gives you suggestions for spelling it gives you suggestions for adding people into your email that you want to send a message to because it remembers what you did previously so all of these applications are artificial intelligence but it's gradually being added you have to remember AI artificial intelligence is an assistive technology now when it grows beyond assistive is when it actually starts doing stuff you don't tell it to do like your kids sometimes did I tell you to do that why did you do that I don't know but it's an assistive technology it is intelligent to a point depending on how you define intelligence obviously it is not human it's digital it's computer generated it's machine language whatever language you want to use but it learns from you the user so for example on GPT chat GPT is learning from the other one oh my gosh from Microsoft that was Blaine, what was it? Bart, thank you Bart's from Google it teaches itself not from the internet but it learns by itself so you have two different types of AI one it has learned from what everybody else has done that's posted out there on the internet up until 2021 so it has access to all that information so just think that big old brain that has access to all that information that you use to answer your questions and generate answers to the questions that you ask and then you have the other technology Bart just in itself has learned from wherever it learned it from that's also an assistive technology so when you're trying to do something accomplish something and build something and create something you have an assistant so people used to say oh I need to be a digital assistant somebody that can do everything somebody can answer all my questions well now we have it but you have to be careful because one of two things are happening you're getting that information that you requested but unfortunately too many people are not reading through that information to learn that accuracy and improve their understanding of the technology world they just totally rely on it when I was teaching some college classes before all of this came out we talked about these conversations about artificial intelligence and you know we all talk about plagiarism and stuff and I would tell my students you know you are a wonderful student but you are not that smart and I say this is not a put down because you have to understand as teachers as educators when we read your papers we understand your pattern your language, your fluency your comprehension and your understanding so we get that from you so when you switch up and change something it goes off in our brains where did you get that information why don't you cite that information what time frame mental adjustments are you making in your writing that shows growth because you should always show growth and comprehension so if you are constantly getting information from chat GBT barred whatever and you are just applying it to what you are doing and not growing from it that creates in your mind that I don't have to fact check or I don't have to grow from this at least I just want to take it for granted that is true for what actually because we know just like the programs that are out there on the internet everything is true it's right and it's perfect exactly so hey even Bart Simpson is on the internet so you got to trust him so you think about the source of information that you get oh it might have folded you okay AI will replace some lower level lower level skills so it's coming to that point now we hear a lot of people say well I don't need this person and I don't need that person but you hired that person not just to perform one skill but multiple skills and people bless our hearts we are adaptable to our different environment and this is a perfect example rejected went out for whatever reason but thank goodness I have my presentation here we have a conversation and we can adapt it doesn't mean AI will adapt to the situation how is AI going to adapt to a situation if the power goes out or if you're using a projector or something electronic and it doesn't overheat and stops working so we as people must be able to adapt one of the episodes of Star Trek I'm a fourth generation teacher I was watching with my mom years and years ago an episode of Star Trek and I didn't know at that time how much it would affect me Captain Curtin in about Star Trek he was late at night for whatever reason he's the captain he walked around and started to look around he goes into this room and there's a lady standing there and he just swaggered you know Captain Curtin got swaggered but what's going on but then he asked her how are the kids doing how are the kids doing and he's in a classroom and he's like oh man there's a classroom so he walks around and the kids are in front of a computer well you know at that time it wasn't a real computer it was like a box with lights and stuff like that so they were doing their work on the computer and he asked her how they were doing she said they're doing really good they're getting their lessons done they're learning a lot and he makes this space like hmm that's pretty good he said carry on then he turns around and walks out and he sent a subliminal message that here you have Star Trek one of the most popular sci-fi episodes in the history of world I know I'm exaggerating a little bit but we love Star Trek and you see this part where Captain Curtin walks into this supposedly classroom and these kids are doing work on a computer this was like way back in the 70s so you take that compilation of information you applied today that's actually happening today in the classroom doing the work on the computer we don't know if they're really learning they just might be doing road memorization or taking a test but the idea of having just a student sitting in front of a computer and doing work but then not understanding the assessment process or the learning that they're learning and how to apply so needless to say when I say that is take every opportunity to learn as much as you can to apply with what you're doing because it is here it's not going away it's growing and it is taking shape and form to what we're doing so 30% of the companies in information technology and IT sector are already present in this new reality of AI, VR multiverse metaverse interesting enough a lot of information is coming from overseas because they're applying it more than we do here in the United States they're more more relevant really really freedom of access because they're applying it more and here in the States we have to understand that we cannot always as in the book snow crash just come to terms where it's going to be natural and we just have our open arms and embrace it because we look at all our movies and we hear more and more how many of y'all remember the movie Determinator you know it's like you think that what is that AI or the matrix what happened to the matrix and I don't know anybody named Neil in real life so I can't go running them and reliving them to save all of us but there are experts out there there are people that know this information just like each of us this book comes in different colors and patterns and styles and models and all that good stuff just like us we're all different we get the same information but we're going to apply it different so if each of us was a book you know our cover would be different because how we would take technology and apply it would be totally different how we would use it and share it with each other would be totally different Aida and I we go through different extremes like this is the best thing since sliced bread or we can use it like this and we can do this and we can do that and as we do that we're talking in one of our mouths we have our own avatars so we have different avatars for different occasions these if you recognize these they are from all space VR all space VR that was discontinued by Microsoft March 10 so these are avatars when we went to church in the metaverse and just going to church going to service meeting different people from around the world and it was great and awesome and wonderful to do because it wasn't just about the church itself but it was about you don't know how many people that are out there that are home bound hospital bound anxious about going out in the world because of COVID and other issues that you can meet and their whole life is wrapped around being a chance to be an avatar and going out and meeting different people because this is their connection to the world and when you see the scope of all of this and understand that here there are people all over the world that just want to get out and meet people and associate with people so what can we do we can walk, we can talk we can teleport, we can travel here's a bridge that goes across China, a glass bridge that you can get on and walk and you can look so we know that we'll probably never go there because we're both kind of scared of heights because when you're like thousands of feet up in the air and you're looking through a glass bridge do you really want to do that so the metaverse allows you to do that you can create digital assets like NFTs which again are non-fungible tokens and that's multiple formats it doesn't have to be art, it can be music text, documents all kind of stuff how am I doing on time oh! okay so alright so everybody knows who this gentleman is who was that guy Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg I was so surprised when we were doing a lesson at one of the elementary schools we had like 1st and 2nd grades you know who Mark Zuckerberg was what an impactful technology what blew my mind was one day after school I was working at an elementary school I had 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th grade students tell me that they were following me on social media so as a parent and a teacher my first response was what are you doing on social media the first place, why are you there and then a dog said okay so this is the technology era and you know kids are going to do that so my mind was also well that means that you have to be responsible for the content that you post now all of us in here are adults we are we may not act like it all the time but we're all adults, we have fun so as we follow each other we have to remember that we are all either influenced, threatened inspired, entertained by different types of technology so when you look at information like this where have we seen the metaverse well we've seen it in movies there's a movie ready player 1 it was really cool, it was really amazing advertisements the Super Bowl this past year I don't know how many advertisements there were for something related to the metaverse the blockchain all that stuff so when you have it on the Super Bowl commercial and millions of people around the world see that kind of stuff and they relate to it and you know it's really impactful anybody remembers the Matrix trilogy that Neil and all his people and everything ready player 1 which is an awesome movie because you learn so much about the metaverse and what could possibly happen meta or Facebook again like I said it's not the metaverse, it's just one aspect though alright, your password to the metaverse readyplayer.me is where you can go and create your avatar and I suggest that everybody should have an avatar it's like kind of those things like everybody should have a laptop or everybody should have a cell phone or everybody should have one day an electric car your phone everybody should have a cell phone because of the connectivity we teach several classes in Africa during the week and most of the students in Africa have a cell phone because that's their way to connect to the world they may never get a laptop because a laptop is expensive they may never get a desktop or a tablet but they have access to a cell phone a smart phone that's their access to the world so they already know they can create a business they can communicate they can apply for credit they can do banking your whole life is on digital connection so for us with our password our password is being on the metaverse we can do so much so taking just a couple of graphics we can do social planning we can do strategic development we can do collaborations we can embrace diversity we can teach, engage in so many ways by our avatar being in digital spaces so again if we were here as avatars in this room we could share files we could share information we could talk to each other that's what the person across from you can share information because you're digitally connected and that's not what it's coming to it's here but it's also growing so you look at the network that you have and we've all heard the term your network your network can equal your network because you have a company you have a business and you're growing and of course you can have fun I watch anime I watch it occasionally when I was in the classroom and the students had projects to do I used to play music from anime and they were like oh my gosh Mr. Jackson you watch anime I'm like yes some of us pretty could and they were like wow did you see such a such episode and then we get into discussion for a little bit about anime because you're connecting I was connecting with my audience my wife is an artist and we watch a little bit of anime and the music is awesome so listen to the music while you design while you create while you do all that because it connects them to something that they can relate to and that's important with technology to make sure you relate to something and you connect to it we went to Costa Rica this year last year the end of last year for their work camp and we were walking around and talking to people about the metaverse and what the metaverse is and get to understand what they thought it was we had a chance to let them use our Oculus we bought our Oculus as well hopefully doing the day today if you want to get on the camp content matters your content is still important because people want to read your content they want to listen to your content that is important because people will be influenced by your content the direction that you're going with what you're doing but also you gotta remember facts are important data is important, statistics all that information that's relevant and growing the business and managing the business can be implemented in the metaverse with that being said we all learn through WordPress by SEO search engine optimization Google is now in the process of using their AI for, let me make sure I say this right web pages that integrate AI technologies and metaverse technologies to be tracked or to be managed or to be watched or elevated within Google based on their relationship with AI technology so I'm not a developer I'm not at that level of that process but I'll just let you know now you'll hear more and more about Google looking at websites and seeing that they're connected to any AI box or AI related technology and the more that there's integration that'll elevate your content in search engines it may come to the point where there is a specific search engine or a specific related product that will totally use this AI and I'm not talking about AI for searching like we don't have GTP but something totally different to access your information branding we gotta look into branding with this so IRL in real life IML in metaverse life so it goes down the list and somebody's gonna create a big book of acronyms for the metaverse if it's not already out of here the cool thing about this I say is when you look at the way words are changed and modified and designed it creates in your mind a pattern of understanding where technology is going we were talking about this yesterday I think Maestro was there with us we were talking at the speaker dinner let's take back on the first time you learned a specific application and I used Windows 3.0 the danger is that we move so fast and so far with technology that sometimes we forget where we started learning something new like Microsoft Word like PowerPoint now we're up there all this artificial intelligence stuff so think that where you actually started learning something that gave you a challenge or an issue and I thought that when I was initially learning to update myself now we're at 3.0 I mean now Windows 3.0 and learning what GUI is graphical user interfaces like oh my gosh we're like oh when did you start using Windows or CPOM so looking at all these terms we have to make sure that we understand how our learning has progressed and how we continue learning establish what your goals are using AI in your networks it's an education it's an entertainment it's in your finances because slowly but surely your banks are integrating it with blockchain technologies your marketing now we have to look at how is AI going to see our content when we're marketing and how are we going to use it it's not just the fact that you can go out and ask a question how do I write a blog about new technologies alright but if you do that and you're reading your content make sure you apply that information to what you are actually doing and remember all of those AIs they remember who you are and they remember your writing style your question style little bits and pieces about your personality so your social media is going to be affected of input too because now you're going to receive different types of information from the internet specifically your relationship to what you're trying to create or build and access to data look at the access to your data because now it's including the fact that all the information data from the chat box is not totally true okay so you got to be careful you still got to read you still got to comprehend some of the hard questions that are out there how do you scale what you're doing how do you apply what the customer wants if you're creating a website for them so now they have to take into account you just want you just can't have a I'll use this for like a a basic standard website because eventually your customers are going to want your websites in some way embedded into the metaverse or have metaverse access so you think about this tools like Spatial where you can have a link from Spatial into a website so there are links there is not a generative AI VR plugin yet that you can merge both WordPress and the metaverse but I'm sure it's coming okay because you're accessing two different networks or three different networks so for example our web host is SiteGround our web host is SiteGround IEDA creates several websites so the process is how would a customer it hasn't happened yet but we've talked about it how would a customer want their website embedded into a Spatial gallery or something for themselves so that's a pivot point don't abandon social media just scale how can you access your how can you use your Twitter and the metaverse how can you use your Instagram and the metaverse you come up with that design you think about it and be one of those pioneers to figure out this probably it's more simpler than you think I love this word pivot my people but pivot I get that when I even pivot you gotta pivot there's not ways that's going to adapt you to the technology the technology is not going to adapt to what you have to adapt the technology to what you want to do the technology is not going to adapt you us as human beings because when you're thinking about it the BART and the chat GPT behind the scenes somewhere is talking to each other and we don't know what they're talking about we don't know what you're saying we don't know the outcome but be sure when you're talking about intelligence artificial or not they're somewhere they're communicating so something in the future is going to be created develop design that we're going to learn about so with that being said your social interactions are important in person networking is very valuable because you can talk and share and be connected you're local where you are in your neighborhoods how is technology being used in your neighborhoods in your communities mobility your cell phones when we're talking to you teens and young adults and we start thinking about adults as well we would start with anybody hold up your phone and repeat after us this can be your best friend or your worst enemy so you keep that in the back of your mind that okay I can't be upset and be mad and put all kind of crazy stuff on my social accounts not just because it's wrong not just because it's born your social interactions somebody locally in your neighborhood will see it or hear about it or read it not just because it's in your mobile device but now you have artificial intelligence watching what you're doing and that can influence how artificial intelligence is your perception to the world community, networking social engagement and your stature you know that is still an important word your stature or your representation or how people perceive you because it's great and it's wonderful that we're all here at work camp that we're all learning from each other we've got all these dynamic speakers but when you leave here what kind of image or does it change your image or your perception to the world? interesting enough that you haven't thought about WordPress manages 45 I said I say 45 to 55% of the websites globally and as people learn that and understand that then they look at us as the ultimate influencers because we know about WordPress we know about word camps, we're here we're learning, we post stuff on social media so that makes us important valuable influencers in the world saying that our content is being seen by AI box and the AI box are also increasing our stature as information technologists so how do you want the world in AI box to perceive you? Engagement is important because we're all here engaging it's generative intelligence, it's generating information from other sources and young person do as I say but don't do as I do because artificial intelligence is looking at what we're seeing and also looking at what we're doing so we have to model it if you want to have Q&A you want to wrap it up and why did you do that? thank you for your help so we still got to be nicer to technology because timing is everything thank you y'all must have been talking last night but I had one or two slides but the main part is the technology that we create and that we generate is important and it's going to be more important in the future so as we do our travels and as we create content look at the relevancy of the point but not just now so questions Q&A I know y'all got a lot of questions yes sir I spent a lot of time in VR especially during the pandemic and one thing I noticed reading in VR is generally a bad experience big bright white boxes with tiny text mixed with the resolution that we have on headsets today isn't great have you found any resources on designing web pages or any material specifically for VR? there are groups of people that are working on how to design in that way actually the last word camp in word camp in Teve in the Africa there was a gentleman there talking about methods and ways to build to actually do that but nothing nothing in stone nothing concrete but one of the things is like the newer generations that are coming up they are growing up from roadblocks they're growing up from Minecraft so their idea is why can't I do that stuff in VR and I think it comes down to again meshing or blending somehow word print press in the metaverse where you can actually design and do that one of the ways will probably be just being able to see the words and the letters and take them and move them or type in a white board and creating content that way but then it's like you may be creating the actual the wording, the verbiage but then blending the graphics to that is a challenge too because remember our websites are on multiple servers but those servers aren't necessarily all connected together so it's a challenge to connect different networks to be able to blend all that together yes ma'am oh okay go ahead about these questions a lot of times people are locked into whatever company is created whatever metaverse you're on the point of the UI for the chat is you're stuck with that pretty much and then if you're trying to view that they allow people to make things for it themselves again you're locked according to the pixels and the size and dynamics and how the assets work but then the original environment so there's not too much to do the actual company itself run the metaverse whichever one it is updates their system for new life in a better interface so if I may real quick so that's part of life for developers to think about right so if you want to make it metaverse friendly a lot of the sites those of us going to VR it actually takes you out of the space into another space where you can view the website but like you said it's just a big white box and it's really hard to read so that's why he does this talk so that to think for developers to think about like well if I'm going to blend this together what can I do so that when someone goes to my new website via the metaverse it automatically will switch to make it easier and maybe even more interactive right something that comes off the screen where because you know I teach the DI like he was saying and think about there are people who cannot requires a lot of austerity keyboard but in the metaverse you don't especially we have hand tracking so like he said you can grab letters and doing stuff so now artwork can be done with different programs in the metaverse so you can stand in a room and you can draw and you can design beautiful stuff and have it within your headset or have it within your computer the challenge again to is to take that and blend it into a web platform where you still have the text you still have the graphics and the animation but just that technology where it's coming so it's not good yes sir are you familiar with the three object viewer plugin no I'm not so WordPress plugin that turns Gutenberg into a metaverse development box and objects things like a couch are Gutenberg blocks and so you can create more of them if you know how to make Gutenberg blocks and you it comes with a bunch of objects couches and you can build a room and it comes with some NPCs but you can also it works with any metaverse product so any headset any phone whatever AR whatever and you can make a room that people can join and talk to each other and the address is just the slug because it's WordPress so it's just the web the slug on your page is a VR room and he recently connected it to chat in GBT so you can make an AI NPC to be or like your door person to keep the river out or what not three object viewer it's 308.xyz did you write that down this is Topher by the way very mild awesome I was on a podcast with a guy that made it and that was my first experience and he showed us and it's just blew my mind the intersection of WordPress in the metaverse anybody else young lady do you have a question because you're like the future of not to put any pressure on you but you're like the future of WordPress young people like yourself nope okay so how hard is it my understanding so I just wanted to say I want you to think also considering the metaverse but also considering AR technology there are word developers right now that are working on working with AR technology so in other words if I have a headset or glasses that can use AR it'll have things in front of me so you were talking about WooCommerce imagine products coming off of the page so just thinking along those lines but there is a developer that's coming up with something like that yeah because if Walmart Home Depot Target are in Roblox and Minecraft where young people are their mindset is already looking toward the future of how to integrate that technology to inspire them to be consumers so as WordPress WordPress was we got to inspire young people to be creators and developers not just the consumer technology but that's the worst part we have to do that and I would like to say if you come up with an idea we're going to apply it develop it creative because you never know that maybe something the world needs don't be shy about asking questions sharing your knowledge most companies and corporations are a team of people not just one person so like I would say use this as your network because it'll increase your network thank you