How to Burn Virtual Calories

Good morning, wow, what a crazy day yesterday was for me. You may recall, Jen and I have a gaggle of adopted special children at home we are raising to overcome their challenges and eventually be independent contributors to society. More often than not, the day starts with a "flat" that needs to be fixed. Lay on top of that our renovating our kitchen so we have had to make our mudroom and den our kitchen and eating space... going on two weeks now! Then off to my office to continue to build Thrivacy.

If you read yesterday's article on Tokeninzing a SAFE, you'll know we are working really hard to raise our next round of needed funding. That is exciting and going well.

We also had our first meeting with the Arizona Virtual Accelerator program we were recently accepted into to help bring our company, Validide Corporation, into the Arizona economy as a startup; did you know Scottsdale AZ was recently recognized as the fastest-growing startup community in the nation? We are learning more about how to make our startup better while we are also being exposed to their community supporting their entrepreneurs.

Then, last night I was teaching my students last night what the metaverse is and how retailers like a Nike store will be able to set up shop in the metaverse and not only sell shoes for your avatar but send a physical version of those shoes to your house for when you are in reality. At this point, we had to take a break because Thrivacy was one of 7 companies chosen to pitch our services to the Society of HR Managers pitch competition (we didn't win because our identity wallet is not solely an HR solution, but they did recognize our innovations).

As I am the Entrepreneur-in-Residence for our College, I teach entrepreneurship in all my classes. At the beginning of the semester, the students identify a problem in their industry or personal life they want to solve and as they learn about blockchain, data privacy, self-sovereign identity, cryptocurrency, NFT, and the metaverse, they assess those tools to see whether or not they may help solve their problem. At the end of the semester, they submit a one-page executive summary, PPT, and present a 3-minute pitch for their final grade. So, I included my students in our pitch to SHRM; they were actually in my background during the video presentation and Q&A. It was fun and they learned how such competitions are run.

After the pitch, the class returned to our conversation about the metaverse and retailers. One of my students asked about the idea to offer food in the virtual world. I said that could be a possibility and that I’m sure some food companies will provide all of the nutrient, ingredient, preservative, and calorie information that is required by the FDA (being very imaginative) in their virtual food. Because I am both a foodie and a Dr of Health Administration, I know this subject fairly well.

So when people are munching out at MickeyDs or Hardees virtually they could be absorbing virtual calories; then they will have to virtually exercise in order to burn those virtual calories or they will become 400 pounder virtual selves that are virtually diabetic eventually losing their virtual right foot due to amputation (yes this happens 1000s of times a day due to diabetes, but now I am being a bit facetious) because of their virtual low circulation... and who knows how much the virtual surgery is going to cost$$??

But this is a good question, food companies will certainly want to get in on the virtual world explosion just starting to happen, so why not! Certainly, human nature will emulate reality even in the virtual world don't you think? Lazy people will continue to be couch potatoes; people who like fries and a coke will continue that trend in the virtual world; why would someone who hates to run start liking to run in the virtual world if it requires the person to run in the physical world? All interesting questions...

Good news, though - I was just reading about the evolution of one of the world's first virtual health care networks for the metaverse. Solve.care and a S. Korean physician alliance are collaborating on bringing health care providers to people within this virtual reality world of the future. Starting with existing telehealth technology and services, it should be an easy leap over. The big question is, will a metaverse-based health care visit be under the same regulations as health care delivery in reality? This has been one of the bigger questions of telehealth over the decades of its expansion; why can't I connect with the best doctors in the world even though they are not "licensed to practice medicine in my state." In the metaverse, we will have even more 'real world interactions' with doctors; it will be much closer to an actual physical visit than telehealth is today. What do you think?

Man, I just reviewed this post and found it spaghetti - just throwing something against the wall I am cooking in my mind. Still and hopefully you learned one or two things new this morning.

Cheers