David A. Smith is the Founder and CTO of Croquet and a member of its Board of Directors. He has more than 30 years of experience as a pioneer of AR and VR, and has founded 7 companies, including The Colony, the world’s first 3D adventure/shooter game, and Virtus Corporation, the first real-time 3D PC design tool, in addition to creating the visualization software behind James Cameron’s “The Abyss”. He has sold 10’s millions of games and applications.
What was your journey like to get where you are?
Croquet was launched in 2018 and has been a wonderful journey into the next era of shared computing in the Metaverse. It’s a very exciting time for the company, with new product launches, customer announcements, creative partnerships, and edge infrastructure deployments planned by the end of the year.
In a simpler phrases, what is your company exactly doing?
Croquet builds developer tools for creating 3D virtual Metaverse worlds. Croquet also builds global synchronization infrastructure for ultra-low latency shared experiences in the virtual and physical worlds.
What about Metaverse are you most excited for in the future?
The potential for the Metaverse, as a communication platform, to completely change and enhance how we interact with each other, personally and professionally, and redefine what it means to be human.
Why should we be paying attention to the Metaverse?
The Metaverse is here to stay and will ultimately become the default way in which we communicate with family, friends, and colleagues. It isn’t just for big business, fashion, or gaming. We will all be able to take advantage of the richness of the Metaverse to enhance how we communicate as humans.
