It’s that time of year. One for giving, gifting, and treating yourself to something special. I personally have bought kid toys, and kid clothes (pro tip: shop the sales for next season’s outfits) and browsed local small businesses for fun gifts (like a candle that burns down to a usable whiskey glass).
Then I thought, there needs to be a Web3 gift guide! 2023 will be more about Web3, connected devices, crypto, NFTs, Blockchain, and the metaverse.
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2022 Web3 Gift Guide
Books
The Augmented Workforce: How the Metaverse Will Impact Every Dollar you Make
Your Swipe Guide to the Metaverse by yours truly.
The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew Ball
Ready Player One: A Novel, You can’t understand the metaverse without the culture behind it.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, by the guy who coined the term metaverse.
Navigating the Metaverse: A Guide to Limitless Possibilities in a Web 3.0 World
Step into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy, plus join Rijmenam’s LinkedIn group, Metaverse Experience Builders.
Into the Metaverse: The Essential Guide to the Business Opportunities of the Web3 Era, pre-order Cathy Hackl’s first solo book.
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity by Amy Webb
NFTs
Give the gift of crypto so your friends and family can explore NFTs.
Join me with a Women and Weapons NFT.
Boss Beauties – Support women in Web3.
Order a custom NFT ornament or print.
Request a Swoosh.Nike access code for a friend. .Swoosh is Nike’s home for virtual creators to co-create, trade and flex the future of Nike.
How to gift an NFT on OpenSea
- Log into OpenSea.io
- Click on the three dots on the NFT you want to trade.
3. Click Transfer
4. Click Continue
5. Enter the public address of the wallet you want to transfer to.
6. Click Transfer
Conferences
CES 2023 January 5-8, 2023 Las Vegas, NV + Digital. Sony announced they’ll be there to demo their motion tracking devices and possibly PSVR 2.
The Open Metaverse Conference February 8-9, 2023, Los Angeles, CA. This conference is presented by Lamina1, the open metaverse project by Neal Stephenson (author of Snow Crash). The conference is seeking submissions – don’t miss a chance to present!
Enterprise Metaverse Expo February 14-17, 2023, Florida. Check out their call for papers and speaker submissions.
Mobile World Congress Barcelona February 27-March 2, 2023
NVIDIA GTC March 20-23, 2023
iSport Connect Web3 Summit June 28-29, 2023, London.
Montreal Web3 Conference May 5-6, 2023, Montreal, Canada. Bonus, this event has a call for speakers and volunteers.
2023 XR-Metaverse Conference June 2023, Las Vegas, Nevada. Call for papers deadline, January 15, 2023.
Metaverse Summit Paris, Summer 2023
World Metaverse Expo 2023 April 23-25, 2023, China National Convention Center
Plus, check out this list of 2022-2023 blockchain conferences and this list of even more metaverse conferences. The VRARA has meetups year-round.
Courses
LinkedIn Learning: Augmented Reality Marketing taught by Cathy Hackl, Chief Metaverse Officer & Godmother of the Metaverse.
What is the Metaverse? taught by Meta.
Introduction to the Metaverse and Its Applications. For $75 you can learn about the metaverse from San Francisco Bay University.
Get a Diploma in Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence from University of Metaverse.
Learn the basics of game development in Unity or Unreal.
Gaming and Gear
Virtual Reality – Meta Quest Pro, Pico, HP Reverb
Buy a VR game for a friend from the Oculus store or Steam.
Augmented Reality – Nreal Air AR Smart Glasses, Snap Spectacles 3 – 3D camera glasses, Ray-Ban Stories.
Gift Roblux Robux, Fortnite VBucks or use this guide to gift Fortnite skins.
Who wants Robux, you may ask? According to a Wall Street Journal article, kids no longer want cash – they want Robux. And they’re buying real-world brands in the game.
“Kaylee Robleto, 12, recently bought a virtual Louis Vuitton handbag, while her 10-year-old sister, Ginelle, got a virtual Gucci jacket. Each item cost less than the equivalent of $5 in Robux.”
WSJ.com
Want even more? Check out this list of AR/VR accessories.
P.S. if anyone wants to gift me a set of Sony’s Mocopi you’ll be my best friend. 😜
For Fun
Start the year right with a Metaverse shirt.
Petoi Robot Dog Bittle – your robo dog for the whole family.
.ETH shirt just so people know you HODL.
Get Keir Finlow-Bates’ The Orthoverse is Doomed shirt. Or maybe keep it from happening and visit orthoverse.io.
Let everyone know you talk about Web3 with this mug.
You can’t have the metaverse without artificial intelligence. Upgrade your office space with an AI decal.
For the Ready Player One fan in your life, check out this RPO Mystery Gift Box Bundle.
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