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Imagine owning the\ndigital real estate surrounding the Taj Mahal. Well, to be real with\nyou, you can\u2019t have all of it \u2013 today\u2019s guest, SuperWorld co-founder\nHrish Lotlikar, already has a piece. But he\u2019s made it easy for anyone\nwho wants it to buy the rest, and other plots of digital real estate\naround the world.\n\n\n\nHe also talks about The\nRogue Initiative and SingularityNET!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlan: Welcome to the XR for\nBusiness Podcast with your host, Alan Smithson. Today\u2019s guest is\nHrish Lotlikar from the Rogue Initiative, SuperWorld app, and\nSingularityNET. Hrish is the co-founder and chief business\ndevelopment officer for the Rogue Initiative, a Los Angeles based\nentertainment company composed of award winning entertainment\nindustry professionals, including alumni from Amblin Entertainment,\nPixar, DreamWorks Animation, Disney, Activision and they are creating\nnew original feature films, television, AAA cinematic interactive VR,\nand gaming content. He\u2019s also the co-founder of SuperWorld \u2014\nsuperworldapp.com \u2014 which is Foursquare meets Pokemon Go meets\nMonopoly in the real world, building a community in AR, powered by\nthe blockchain. They\u2019ve built an AR real estate marketplace, ad\nmarketplace on the blockchain, which also acts as a social AR app,\nallowing users to personalize their real world by adding anything,\nanywhere in augmented reality with photos, videos, texts, and 3D\nobjects, and share those experiences with their followers. He\u2019s also\nan advisor of SingularityNET, a decentralized marketplace for AI\nalgorithms allowing companies, organizations, and developers to buy\nand sell AI at scale. Previously to this, he was in venture capital,\nbut he got better. If you want to learn more about Hrish\u2019s\ninitiatives, you can go to the Rogue Initiative, which is\ntherogueinitiative.com,\nSuperWorld, which is superworldapp.com,\nand SingularityNET, which is singularitynet.io.\n\n\n\n\nHrish, welcome to the show, my friend.\n\n\n\nHrish: Hey, thanks so much for\nhaving me, Alan. I appreciate it. Looking forward to having this\nconversation.\n\n\n\nAlan: Oh, absolute pleasure. You\ndo a lot in this space. And the first time we met was at\u2013 I think\nit\u2019s now called Global World Summit. But it was called\u2013 what was it\ncalled before?\n\n\n\nHrish: The VR/AR Conference?\n\n\n\nAlan: Yeah.The VR/AR Association\nConference. But let\u2019s unpack these amazing initiatives that you\u2019re\ndoing. Let\u2019s start with the one that\u2019s Rogue.\n\n\n\nHrish: Yeah.\n\n\n\nAlan: Tell us about it.\n\n\n\nHrish: Sure, yeah. So, Rogue\nInitiative we started back in late 2015. My co-founders, Pete Blumel\nand Cathy Twigg. The goal of the Rogue Initiative was looking at the\nconvergence of linear, Hollywood, traditional entertainment and\ninteractive entertainment. And how could we \u2014 from the ground up \u2014\ncreate new original properties that brought those forms of\nentertainment together? Because there is a confluence of technology\nand Silicon Valley in Hollywood that was coming together. And how do\nwe how do we kind of leverage that, to create new original content\nthat goes across all of those medium? So building and developing a\nnew story that starts on the feature film side and then organically\nmoves to interactive all the way through TV, through all the way to\namusement park rides and toys. So building franchises from the ground\nup, bringing in top Hollywood talent and interactive talent, and\nknowing from the foundations of creating that content, that we\u2019re\nbuilding it to go across all those mediums. And that\u2019s the kind of\nhig