Founder

Brian Shuster is a futurist and an innovator. He has been awarded well over 100 patents and pending patents on a wide range of internet and computer technologies.

Brian Shuster is currently the CEO of Ideaflood, Inc., an intellectual property development and holding company, and Utherverse Digital, Inc., the world's premier Virtual World software development company with millions of registered users and worldwide franchise operations. He is an industry Thought Leader and the Nucleus of the Utherverse Team.

Over the past 18 years, his visionary work in VR has solved critical “show stopping” problems behind the operation and expansion of the metaverse. His work is foundational to the very fabric of the metaverse.

Brian Shuster is one of the pioneers of the internet and has developed and holds patents to many core internet technologies. He is considered one of the trailblazers in internet content provision and has been discussed and featured in many industry and general news outlets, including: CNN, Forbes, Venture Beat, MSNBC.com, Yahoo, Wired News, and many others.

Brian Shuster founded his first internet company, Worldwide Internet Network, in 1995. WWIN developed and deployed the first commercial advertising network on the internet and pioneered the use of banner advertising and banner advertising exchange systems.

WWIN was involved in establishing some of the very first price points and value propositions for internet advertising sales.

Many of the technologies developed by Mr. Shuster are now widely used across the spectrum of almost all other internet companies. Mr. Shuster has more than 110 patents and pending patents in technology areas such as Metaverse, VR headsets, Haptics and Adaptics™, and core internet technologies – ranging from internet operations to advanced and widely deployed advertising modalities.