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The metaverse promises a greater convergence of our physical and digital worlds as well as a potential social equaliser.

But with social, business and technical challenges, is the metaverse, a fad or an unrealistic utopia?
Join our speakers as they deliberate and debate on the metaverse. Listen to the different perspectives and vote for the winning side!

Find out more about the metaverse: https://sure.nlb.gov.sg/read-to-be-sure-volume-2/issue2-metaverse/

About the debaters:
Dr Khoo Eng Tat
Dr Khoo is a principal investigator of the Immersive Reality Lab at the National University of Singapore. Beyond his academic interest in virtual, augmented and mixed reality, his wide industry experience includes serving as a founding member of the Holomedicine Association and being a startup mentor at Pixel.
Winston Ng
Winston is the Co-founder & CEO of Finute, an award-winning metaverse technology edutainment company that develops immersive virtual experiences. Winston led the development of the National Day Parade metaverse in 2022, garnering over 156,000 users in under 3 months.
Keith B. Carter
Keith is a partner at KBC Global Partners, an IT Consulting firm that helps companies monetize their data projects. Besides having vast industry experience, he was also a past associate professor at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore and teaches at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Yoganeetha Sivakumar
Yoganeetha is an economics graduate who pursued her passion and delved into writing as a career. She covers news and writes op-eds on the tech and startup industry for publications such as the Vulcan Post. Among her works are commentaries on the development of the Metaverse both internationally and domestically.
About Read To Be SURE
Read to be SURE (RTBS) is part of NLB’s Libraries and Archives Blueprint 2025 (LAB25), a five-year journey of our next phase of transformation. RTBS aims to educate and inform the public on trending topics through a combination of curated content and accompanying programmes. By exploring multiple perspectives on these topics, readers and participants will benefit from a balanced and credible knowledge base.

To find out more, please visit us at https://sure.nlb.gov.sg/read-to-be-sure/intro/

About S.U.R.E.
S.U.R.E. stands for Source, Understand, Research and Evaluate, and is an initiative of the National Library Board to educate the public on information literacy.
For more information and free resources, please visit us at www.sure.nlb.gov.sg

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