Chris Lawes - 361Firm Newport July 2025 Interview SUMMARY KEYWORDS Chris Lawes, domes.com, immersive environment, Gen AI, content creation, immersive event centers, global community, art, sports, innovation, technology, environmentalism, metaverse integrations, non-traditional experiences, thedomes.com. SPEAKERS Chris Lawes Okay. My name is Chris Lawes. I'm the founder and CEO of thedomes.com I'm from Atlanta, Georgia originally. We're based in Austin, Texas now. And yeah, it's been a fantastic event, as usual, 361 we have a really good time meeting high caliber people from a very wide background of experiences. So specifically for us with the domes, they've always been these beautiful structures that allow you to take an audience into an immersive environment and transport them to other worlds, other worlds of imagination, of education, of knowledge, of entertainment. But content has kind of been the main bottleneck of experiences that are available in those kinds of really intense, large, high resolution environments. So now, with Gen AI, we're able to not only make content much less expensively, we can also make content in real time, so you can actually have an audience going to an immersive environment, and they can generate their own story, their own adventure with their own minds. And Gen AI unlocks that ability that never existed before. Well, what we're doing with the domes is we want to create a very large number of immersive event centers all over the world that will allow you to connect with your local community and also connect with the global community. So if you're into art, if you're into sports, if you're into innovation and technology, whatever it is that your interest is environmentalism, you have a local place you can come together people who are interested in that and learn and experience beautiful, immersive journeys around that subject matter, and you can also connect with the global community of the world that's also interested in that same thing. And so we'll bring the whole world together. We'll bring different cultures and communities together and countries together, and make the world a more prosperous, happy, healthy and uplifting place. Yeah. I mean, we're super happy to be a part of the community and to support all these kinds of events. The domes.com is our domain name. And so anyone that's interested in being either an artist, an investor, a developer, a technologist, someone that wants to create applications on these new layers, Metaverse integrations, you know, just bringing all these new forms of non traditional parts of life, like art and cultural experiences, to the technology world of the metaverse and these in person virtual dome environments just come to website, thedomes.com and there's a form at the bottom, and you can just reach out and say hello, and we'll be happy to know you.