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[ 00 / 07 ] Metameta Club · Nairobi · since 2022

Step intoAfrica's firstmetaverse community

Nairobi XR and AI builders since 2022. Home of the Africa Metaverse AI Summit and Metameta Campus.

300

participants · 2023 Summit, KCA University

Summit

2022 → 2023 → 2027

Africa Metaverse AI Summit · next edition date TBA
Metameta Club logoMetameta Club members' avatars meeting in a virtual spaceCommunity
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[ 01 / 07 ]Through the visor

Culture in the room, builders who ship with taste.

Metameta Club is a Nairobi XR and AI builder community, and the home of Metameta Campus and Metameta Campus Kids.

[ 02 / 07 ]The Club · Baobab Core

African builders, in shared virtual space.

When Mathew Munyao stepped into the metaverse in 2021, he noticed there were no Africans in the space. So in 2022 he started Metameta Club in Nairobi. We've hung African art in virtual galleries in Decentraland and dressed avatars in African heritage wearables, because our stories should be told by us.

  • Gallery

    African art in virtual galleries in Decentraland.

  • Wearables

    African Heritage – MVFW23: the African Pride Suit and African Heritage Suit, by Virtual is Real.

  • Metameta Nights

    A weekly, hands-on XR + AI session on our Discord. Demo, build along, critique. Free.

  • Community

    Metameta Nights, Game Days and jams on our Discord. Free and online, with early access to Campus cohorts.

Find us on Linktree All sessions on Discord · via Linktree

[ 03 / 07 ]Africa Metaverse AI Summit · 2027 Arena

We meet to build, demo and argue about the future.

  1. 2022

    iHub Nairobi

    Our first Metaverse Summit, 28 Oct 2022. VR headsets in the room, with the sessions streamed into Decentraland and Voxels.

  2. 2023

    KCA University

    Pan-African, 27–28 Oct 2023: partners from Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa, XR showcases, and panels in the room and in the metaverse. 300 participants.

  3. 2027

    Next edition

    Africa Metaverse AI Summit 2027 · date TBA · register interest.

[ 04 / 07 ]Heritage · Heritage Wing

Our stories, in our hands.

“…to tell and preserve real African stories and history… recorded and written by Africans themselves.”

From our 2022 summit notes
  • 01Great Zimbabwe bird. A study after the carved soapstone birds of Great Zimbabwe.
  • 02Kente-inspired weave. After the strip-woven kente cloth of Ghana's Asante and Ewe weavers.
  • 03Swahili carved door. After the carved doorways of Lamu, on Kenya's coast.

Stylised 3D studies, not replicas

Hadithi, a storyteller in his 40s with a grey-flecked beard, in a long white coat with gold embroidery and a striped sash, holding a small gold frame that unspools glowing cyan and magenta threads.

Metameta storyteller · working title

Hadithi · Storyteller guide

He opens each Heritage Wing story portal in the Rift Sky world.

Meet the storytellers →

[ 05 / 07 ]Metameta Campus · Campus Terraces

Tools change. Taste doesn't.

Metameta Campus teaches XR and AI the African way: hybrid cohorts, culture in the room, and builders who ship with taste.

  1. 01Metameta Campus KidsWaitlist open
  2. 02Open coursesDates TBA
  3. 03Pro studiosDates TBA
  4. 04FellowshipDates TBA
  5. 05Exec intensivesDates TBA

[ Metameta Nights · free · online ]

One weekly, hands-on XR + AI session, live on our Discord and free for now. You leave with a small piece you can show. In-person nights come later, Nairobi first.

Demo → Build-along → Critique

Web3Clubs logoProgramme partner · Web3 track: Web3Clubs × Metameta

[ 06 / 07 ]Services by Virtual is Real

Need it built?

Metameta Club grew out of Virtual is Real, a Nairobi XR studio. Its production services open on virtualisreal.xyz.

[ 07 / 07 ]Join · Ground Station

Build with people who get it.

Every session happens on our Discord: Metameta Nights, Metameta Nights, Game Days and jams. Free and online, with early access to Campus cohorts.

Rift Sky world · in development for Quest 3 and 3S · See it

Built by Virtual is Real