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Digitizing Fashion Through NFTs and the Metaverse - Delz Erinle

Episode Summary

On today's podcast we have Alex 'Delz' Erinle, a Web3 Founder building for the Metaverse. He's the CEO and UX Design Lead for Thrill Digital - a fashion technology startup on a mission to digitize the fashion industry. Thrill is working on spinning out several web3 products designed and developed in-house. Their first product is Astra - a virtual metaverse world where you can compete to win luxury fashion in real life. Delz is researching and designing new product ideas using technology like Gaming, Voice, Crypto and Extended Reality (AR/VR) to play a part in the creation of a more immersive & decentralised web experience. In this conversation, we spoke about 🚀 how Delz got into the fashion industry, 💸 gamification of E-commerce and Digital Fashion, 👜 fashion brands exploring the Metaverse, 🎨 Thrill Digital's NFT art and sound projects, 💍 physical collectibles like eyewear and jewelry, ⭐️ thinking about UX design in Metaverse virtual worlds, 👀 making software and hardware fashionable, and much more.

Episode Notes

Time Stamps:

• (0:28) - Introduction to Delz, Thrill Digital, and Astra
• (4:08) - The Gamification of E-Commerce and  Digital Fashion
• (7:30) - Delz's inspiration from childhood and wanting to become a fashion designer
• (9:00) - How Steve Jobs and Akio Morita made tech fashionable
• (11:35) - How Delz thinks about Digital Fashion through both software and hardware
• (14:40) - How Delz explains the Metaverse and future products
• (19:55) - Ways fashion brands are exploring the Metaverse 
• (27:09) - Working on projects related to physical collectibles - eyewear and jewelry 
• (29:45) - The Thrill Digital NFT art projects
• (33:01) - How Delz thinks about community-led NFT projects
• (35:44) - Thrill Digital working on their Audio NFT project 'Waves'
• (37:52) - Closing thoughts and where to find Delz

Find Delz & Thrill Digital:

• On Twitter = https://twitter.com/wolfofnewstreet
• On Twitter = https://twitter.com/welcometoastra
• On Twitter = https://twitter.com/thrilldao

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