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Vincent Hunt

Vincent Hunt

Entrepreneur + Experience Architect (XA)
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Dawn of A Diverse, Equitable & Inclusive Metaverse: TMCF | MetaScholars Program

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Vincent Hunt
April 07
I can still remember the first day I saw a commercial website. It was around 1998 and its was the Victoria Secret site. Not only was the site provocative, BUT it represented to me a shift in digital commerce where design and accessibility fused to radically redefine how we (as consumers) would engage retail. Now, Victoria Secret was NOT the first instance of this revolution — In fact we can track back to as early as 1982 with the Boston Computer Exchange. BCE was launched to serve as an online market for selling used computers. After that, in 1992 Charles M. Stack delivered to us one of the earliest consumer online shopping experiences with Book Stacks Unlimited — a dial-up bulletin board three years BEFORE Amazon. Books Stacks Unlimited was then purchased by Barnes & Noble and became: Books.com. For me though, it was Victoria’s Secret — It was THAT website that 1. Illuminated to me a vision that was shared with me years before by a young man named Eric Anderson, who at a slumber party shared an idea about computers and the emerging internet. That changed the trajectory of my life and awakened a young creative, technologically inclined Vincent … 2. That website was over a decade of dreams colliding with the earth and the catalyst (for me) into the world of Web Design and Development. It was early 1999 when I launched my very first studio.
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Why DEI Needs To Be On The Front-End of The Metaverse

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Vincent Hunt
February 03
Recently, I wrote a rant on The Emerging Meta Divide. Heading this idea off at the front of the path as we traverse into the Metaverse is something that I am deeply interested in and passionate about on many levels. As an Entrepreneur, Innovator and life-long Technologist, I have seen the waves of technological change that has shaped how we interact, conduct business, and progress as a people. I have also witnessed the disparate gap that continues to persist as it pertains to people of color and the advancement of technology. Historically, people of color have lagged behind when it comes to the adoption of technology and in large part, even upon adoption we adopt at the consumer layer, putting us at an economic disadvantage. Over the years we have done better (a lot better), as younger generations are more adept to adopting technology, BUT this is not a wide-spread practice and often times socioeconomic mechanics govern who adopts and who doesn’t. I digress …
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Getting Ahead of The Emerging Meta Divide

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Vincent Hunt
January 21
Historically, people of color have fallen behind in the wake of technological advancement. From the dawn of the consumer web, to Web 2.0 — The technical gap that forms from the lack of speed to adopt, leverage and forward technology within the black community is always problematic. There are a vast amount of reasons why this happens, however; at the forefront of the reasons, there rest the simple idea that as a people we are in large part “consumers” of technology and we are usually 3–5 years behind when it comes to seeing the business application of the tech we consume.