NOTHING IS REAL = EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE
Justin "JB" Bolognino
FOUNDER + CEO of META? // Unreality / Silent G Farms / Immersive Artist / Creative Director / Jazz Student
2019 WTF!?!
Farewell 2019, the year we officially lost Reality...
With AR, VR, XR, AI, Deep Fakes, Fake Views, Fake News or Instagram “Influencers”, the very fabric of existence has been called into question.
With the newfound power to create your own Realities, 2020 ushers in a fundamentally new era. The challenge remains: how to navigate - and stand out - within the Matrix?
EXPERIENCE REALIZATION
META’s mission for over a decade has been to foster deep human connection by creating immersive stories that blend technology, design, and music into transformative experiences for both client and participant alike.
Whether for brands, festivals, or artists, the unique immersive worlds that we concept, design, and produce wildly memorable and measurable moments optimized for prolific social media sharing.
BEST OF META 2019: ARCADIA EARTH
“Sustainability through an immersive, visually stunning utopia.” - Vogue
META partnered with Arcadia Earth in order to help founder Valentino Vettori craft a singular conceptual and execution strategy for what’s possible for purpose-driven experiential storytelling.
Focusing on education, inspiration and sustainability-based call-to-action, we helped to flip the “selfie museum” model on its head. Arcadia features large-scale and interactive projection mapping installations by META, while also deploying both augmented and virtual reality navigation, creating one of the most awe-inspiring and high-impact immersive journeys to date.
After finally opening Labor Day of 2019, Arcadia has been a runaway hit, with glowing features in the NY Times, Vogue, Forbes, Cool Hunting, and more. Ticket sales have been through the roof, and plans for multi-city and creative technology expansions are all in the works. Stay tuned!THE
META 2020 VISION
UNREALITY: The Experience Ecosystem
This year, META will be launching Unreality, the first and only online collaborative community, product marketplace, and accreditation database for the Experience Economy. We're empowering the next generation of the creative technology workforce to efficiently and effectively connect, collaborate, build, and measure new Realities, together.
To learn more about Unreality and how you can be part of our private, invite-only roll out of the platform, please feel free to reach out to start getting real about Unreality!
META Goes BEYOND with Virgin Fest DTLA
META has been tapped to curate and produce “BEYOND”, the immersive entertainment and technology exhibition at Virgin’s new festival, Virgin Fest, to be held June 6 & 7th in Banc of California Stadium and surrounding Exposition Park (LA). We’ll be bringing to life multiple creator-made installations, as well as a showcase of the coolest technologies on the planet.
We are looking forward to much more in 2020 and are here to help you and your clients discover their own Reality. Please feel free to reach out to learn more.
Futurist | AI & Web3 Business Innovation Strategy | Leading Companies & Investors in Emerging Tech & Digital Assets. Author of "SuperHuman: AI & Humanity's Next Chapter" (2025) and "Virtual Natives" (Wiley, 2023). MBA.
5 年You are on the edge of all things X-citing, JB. Thanks for sharing this piece and sculpting the dialogue around the new real.