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On TAP takes on the metaverse! Sarah, Brian, and special guests Ian Garrett and Elizabeth Hunter evaluate the hype regarding facebook's recent announcement on the metaverse, explore the performance studies implications of experimental immersive social media, and discuss its accessibility and equity dimensions. Plus, our first ever bleeped utterance!

Here are links to some of the things we talked about on this episode:

  • Mark Zuckerberg’s video regarding the metaverse

  • The Buzzfeed article about white actors playing people of color in VR EDI trainings

  • The Harvard metalab futureStage manifesto