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The web page is\na deceptively simple invention, but its creation \u2014 and more\nimportantly, its cross-programmability \u2014 made the World Wide Web the\ntechnological powerhouse it has become. Gabriel Rene founded VERSES\nto encourage similar similar developments in spacial computing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlan: Today\u2019s guest is Gabriel\nRene, an architect and founder of The VERSES Foundation. He\u2019s a\ntechnologist, entrepreneur, researcher, media and music producer,\nwhose 25-year career in the technology, telecom and entertainment\nindustry has granted him the knowledge and experience to consistently\ninvent unique business verticals, and to navigate the novel\nchallenges of the emerging global digital entertainment, marketing,\ne-com, mobile and spatial technology markets. aAs a deep technology\npioneer, mobile executive, and corporate strategist, Gabriel has\nbuilt multiple innovative technology companies, developed\ngroundbreaking enterprise and consumer software, and forged strategic\npartnerships with multiple Fortune 50 companies. Rene has worked with\n\u2014 and advised some of \u2014 the world\u2019s largest brands, spanning media\nconglomerates, telcos, media manufacturers, mobile manufacturers,\ngovernments, and major brands. As a C-level executive founder, he has\ndemonstrated unique leadership, strategic and operational\ncapabilities in growing businesses from zero to $25-million in annual\nrevenues. As an advisor and board member, he has helped multiple\nstartups and founders navigate their way to success. Gabriel serves\nas the executive director of the VERSES Foundation, an organization\nat the intersection of Block Chain, Virtual Reality, and Artificial\nIntelligence technologies designed to power Web 3.0 and dedicated to\nthe interoperable adoption of spatial technologies across every major\nindustry. As the founder and executive director of VERSES, the Global\nAdvisory Board Member and co-chair of the AR Cloud Committee, and a\nfounding member of the Open AR Cloud. With that, I want to welcome\nGabriel Rene. Thank you for joining us on the show.\n\n\n\nGabriel: Thank you, Alan. It\u2019s a\npleasure to be here.\n\n\n\nAlan: Where can people find you\nonline if they want to look into it?\n\n\n\nGabriel: Well, if it\u2019s me\npersonally, you can find me @GabrielRene at LinkedIn, and you can\nalso find me on Twitter under the same name. And then with VERSES,\nyou can go to VERSES.io to get all the latest information on us.\n\n\n\nAlan: So let\u2019s unpack this. Tell\nme what you\u2019re doing at VERSES right now, and I want to get the full\nunderstanding of what is VERSES, and why it\u2019s important for people\nlistening.\n\n\n\nGabriel: So I guess the first\nplace to start is way back in 1990 or so. There was a young, talented\nresearcher by the name of Tim Berners-Lee, who was working at the\nCERN Institute, and he was developing a new set of technologies which\nhave come to be known as the World Wide Web protocols. So those are\nall the HTTP, which was hypertext transfer protocol, and HTML, which\nis a hypertext markup language. That, combined with a browser, which\nhe developed as an open source standard, and on top of the domain\nstructure that had been pre-existing \u2014 which we\u2019d been using from\nthe email era of .coms and .edu, .org, etc. \u2014 he created this you\nURL format, which essentially made pages programmable, gave us the\nability to link content on those pages, and the ability to network\nthose pages. This, of course, became the World Wide Web. \n\n\n\n\nThe majority of our technologies and\npower and advantages and capability today, whether in business or\npersonal lives, in public or private sector, come from the benefits\nof these core protocols that enable the network. But it\u2019s\nfundamentally a network of pages and text and media. And now, with\nthe dawn of new interfaces th