This audio is based on a fictional narrative set in the near future and written by one of the founders of augmented reality and an expert in AI, Louis Rosenberg. It was performed by Oliver Bailey-Davies, Sam Garioch and Sarah Hansmann Rouxel from Tin Whistle Productions. It was produced and recorded by Simon Prince at Hot Source studios in Guernsey.

Louis Rosenberg is campaigning for 'guardrails' to be put in place before new technologies develop and evolve to protect users. Metaverse 2030 is an example of 'useful fiction', stories which help explain important issues of the time and enable people to grasp otherwise mercurial concepts, such as the metaverse, artificial intelligence and augmented reality.

Louis supports the ODPA's Project Bijou, a social initiative to engage people through storytelling, and kindly let us use his narrative which has been brought to life in the form of this spellbinding audio play. It is the perfect cautionary tale to entertain while educating people, and the message is particularly pertinent for young people who are perhaps most at risk from harmful, unregulated online behaviours.

You can listen to a Q&A with Louis Rosenberg where he discusses the wider themes covered in Metaverse 2030 at: https://www.odpa.gg/project-bijou/theme-3-the-role-culture-plays-in-data-and-vice-versa/video-real-guardrails-in-immersive-technologies-navigating-the-metaverse-safely/