The Avatar universe has become one of the most ambitious entertainment ecosystems ever created, blending blockbuster filmmaking, immersive digital worlds and next-gen storytelling. Ubisoft’s newest game expansion, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – From the Ashes edition, lets fans step directly into the world that moviegoers will be watching on the big screen, mirroring themes and environments in the new film Avatar: Fire and Ash.
With movie studios and game developers building worlds in tandem, as a futurist and leader in innovation, Matt Maher can speak to the larger trend: video games becoming the new “extended universe” for major films and immersive tech helping audiences not just watch a story but live in it.
DISCUSSION TOPICS:
A New Way to Experience Pandora: The game expansion that lets fans enter the Avatar universe from home
Tech Behind the Magic: How innovations in 3D environments help bring Pandora to life
The Future: How gaming and film are merging to create unified worlds and what that means for the future of entertainment
TALENT BIO:
Matt Maher is a Futurist, Speaker and Founder of M7 Innovations, an independent research and development firm. His thought leadership and award-winning work has been featured in Forbes, Barron’s, Quartz, Digiday, Adweek and Vogue – which recently named him one of the Top 100 Innovators of 2024. At M7, Matt leads a team specializing in artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual realities, voice technology, and the evolving internet. Matt sits on the international advisory boards of CHANEL and the Glimpse Group (NASDAQ: VRAR), and his company M7 was selected by MIT as the 35th official member of The MIT Media Lab Consortium. Matt has given keynote presentations on innovation at CES, SXSW, industry panels, and private client events around the world.
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