![]() ![]() So, if you've ever done anything in social media or particularly online publishing or blogging, it is a huge rush, huge rush. Yet meanwhile, the story got way more hits than all the other stories put together. ![]() ![]() So that's how people consume your writing, but I have no idea about that. I mean, no one reads more than 1600, 600 words at a time. ![]() So, I looked into what is VR today, what is AR, which I had never heard of in 2015 until I started writing that story, and I published that story. It was a ridiculously long story for being online. So I said, okay, well, let me just do the research and write about it. You know, my voice is not needed in topics like politics and social media. Those are covered by a lot of brilliant people who contribute thought leadership to that. I don't feel like I can go back in time, but a couple of weeks later, I thought what I'm doing is not working. All the players are different, you can't go home again. Everybody knows you, who you were just go back to VR, they're waiting for you. And I said, well, that is crazy. VR in the nineties, you spoke at all the conferences. And he said, I am surprised you're not in VR. And then I ran into Brian Biddy, who was doing VR for Honda. So, I started writing and researching and trying to learn, and I wrote about everything I knew and was passionate about. I didn't really know what to do. Ageism is a real thing, but also in fairness, I wasn't that relevant anymore. So I had to start making up jobs for myself. I mean here I was, a 50 something-year-old, former CEO who hasn't been relevant in years. So I wanted to get back into tech, but it was kind of too late. So that brought me into contact with AOL and they ended up hiring me and putting me in charge of content.Īfter that I got involved in doing more fun stuff in show business, producing Broadway shows, but I quickly found out that producing is a sucky business, particularly for Broadway shows. We opened 33 locations on four continents, which in retail is super fast because retail develops like at the speed of the department of motor vehicles. So they were looking at a monitor and seeing the other vehicles inside of the simulation, and we did that for four years. When I left AOL and I joined a location-based entertainment company that was purchased by Disney, the Simon property group was involved and we were doing something called cab-based simulation, where we were networking people together, but they were in vehicles, right. Probably the best place to begin is in the nineties. So, Charlie, I wonder if you wouldn't mind starting by maybe introducing yourself, what you do, and how you got into the space.Ĭharlie Fink: Sure. So I'm excited to see how we're going to sort of condense just a lifetime of learnings into such a short period. He knows more about the space than many people on the planet. I've been really looking forward to this session because, frankly, if you've been in and around XR, It's almost impossible for you not to have come across Charlie. His consulting practice is focused on helping tech companies tell their stories.Caspar Thykier: I'm delighted to be joined here by Charlie Fink. His other experience includes exits from several startups and running the New York Musical Festival.įink gives keynotes on topics related to AI, XR and The Metaverse all over the world. Fink was also President of American Greetings Interactive and Blue Mountain (2000-2004). In 1995, AOL recruited him to be Senior Vice President & Chief Creative Officer of AOL Studios (1995-1999). Fink's work in technology began in 1992 when he joined Tim Disney’s pioneering location-based VR company, Virtual World Entertainment, as its COO. Fink teaches at Chapman University in Orange, CA., and ASU.įink's forty year career at the convergence of popular culture and technology began at Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1987 where he famously came up with the idea for “The Lion King" and subsequently became the studio’s youngest creative vice-president. He is the author of the critically acclaimed AR-enabled books "Charlie Fink’s Metaverse" (2017), and "Convergence, How The World Will Be Painted With Data" (2019). Charlie Fink writes the weekly Forbes column "This Week in XR" and co-hosts its companion podcast. ![]()
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