The metaverse will feel alive once ‘storytelling’ becomes ‘storyliving’

Storytelling is as old as civilization itself. Before we had formalized language, there were stories in pictures. Our picture stories these days are much more than actors on a screen — they transport us to new places in virtual reality and enable us to transform virtual worlds, maybe even changing ourselves in the process.

In “From Storytelling to Storyliving in the Metaverse” during GamesBeat’s Into The Metaverse in partnership with Facebook, Hexagram CEO Jamil Moledina chatted with Vicki Dobbs Beck, executive in charge at ILMxLAB Lucasfilm; and Siobhan Reddy, the studio director at Media Molecule, about what the metaverse means for storytelling and the evolution into “storyliving.”