Cryptovoxels Pt. 3

tags: devlog crypto cv

From June through November 2019 Cryptovoxels has grown to become a Mecca for the crypto art scene, filling up with new art galleries, wearables stores, and NFT shrines.

Picture of Origin City taken from Substrata during September 2019

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Geocities Effect

The Geocities Effect is a concept that originated from Anarchy Arcade, a 3D desktop engine, which refers to the idea that the person who created a custom desktop in AArcade will also be the person who enjoys it the most.

What looks like an epic room (or 2D desktop) full of amazing content & nostalga for one person can look like a poorly textured space full of random junk to somebody else.

"People have a very strong & pleasant connection to things they've personally created, even if to a neutral outside observer it doesn't look like anything special." - SMSithLord

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Networks

Metcalfe's Law: The value of a network is proportional to the square of participants.

Put simply, every time you connect another person into a network, and therefore able to make many more connections, the impact is multiplied, and becomes exponential.

This effect has observed by the rapid adoption of social media platforms over the past decade. As more people create social media profiles and connect to their friends, the network becomes bigger and more valuable to users and investors alike.

Cryptovoxels has built a platform that makes it easy for individuals to personalize a 3D website with images, models, links, music, and other interactive elements without prior knowledge of coding required.

The ease of personalizing 3D websites with the out-of-the-box connections with a larger grid, Origin City, are we seeing Metcalfe's Law in action happening inside Cryptovoxels?

Picture of Origin City map taken November 10th, 2019.

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Substrata

Website: https://substrata.info

Can install and run Substrata, and then paste sub://substrata.info/cryptovoxels into the address bar in Substrata.

Now comes with .vox support!

Uses quite a lot less RAM now - not storing textures in RAM once uploaded to GPU. CryptoVoxels world takes about 15GB RAM now instead of 24GB.

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Unity Client

Website: https://github.com/cubedparadox/unity-client

Optimized the CV avatar for Quest and full body VR in VRChat

Individual District Customization

Ride Chocobos

Custom Avatars

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Scripting

Open Cryptovoxels in HTML mode: &ui=html

Tutorial Videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRtalQD83cpQJ-XeNDG8bDw/videos

Scripting Live Data

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYbdobnMdmQ&feature=youtu.be

https://github.com/cryptovoxels/parcel-bitcoin-tracker

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Contests

Website: https://medium.com/@devilbreedjenkins/first-cryptovoxels-creator-contest-1fc98acfa0cb

Three high-ceiling, high-visibility parcels will be awarded as prizes in the hot new Midtown district:

• Grand Prize: https://www.cryptovoxels.com/parcels/1735 (1200 color pre-loaded)
• Second Place: https://www.cryptovoxels.com/parcels/1600 (1000 color pre-loaded)
• Third Place: https://www.cryptovoxels.com/parcels/1806 (800 color pre-loaded)

https://twitter.com/cryptovoxels/status/1174159127905558528 .vox gallery

https://www.cryptovoxels.com/play?coords=E@316W,436S

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Pumpkin Carving Contest

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Comparing Blockchain Cities

Write-up: https://hackmd.io/@XR/cities

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Soundtrack

While walking around Origin City you can hear different soundtracks for districts fading into each other plus footsteps from the avatar.

Soundtrack https://twitter.com/cryptovoxels/status/1170468794671738887

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360 parcle previews on Opensea https://opensea.io/assets/0x79986af15539de2db9a5086382daeda917a9cf0c/31?#history

https://twitter.com/cryptovoxels/status/1169724702170013699

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Avatar voice chat (Aug 2019)

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Optimizations

Halved the bundle size with no loss of functionality!

26mb -> 13mb. 50% reduction in bundle size means that it'll transfer over the network in half the time, and use half as much ram to load the javascript

Source: https://twitter.com/cryptovoxels/status/1163490318639087623

"…I just refactored the parcel loading code and it's approximately a thousand times faster. ZERO LAG."

Source: https://twitter.com/cryptovoxels/status/1184229448800862208

High Performance Renderer

This is all shot in a web browser, in real-time, on a macbook!

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Mobile

The mobile app is a native app aiming to look and feel like a native app for the platform.

https://blog.cryptovoxels.com/2019/08/15/mobile.html

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JanusWeb

In order to build a JanusWeb client for Cryptovoxels, the geometry had to be first exported from the Unity engine to glTF. The gltf-exporter plugin from Plattar worked great.

The parcels can optionally be loaded into Blender for further optimization.

Some desert, rain, and snow variations of Cryptovoxels in JanusWeb

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Wearables

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Meta

Year of Cryptovoxels: Meta-Explorers to Origin City

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Anarchy Arcade

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Somnium Space

Source: https://twitter.com/SomniumSpace/status/1185152901053931522

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Marketplace Tool

Website: https://nftcryptonews.com/cv/sales.html

Available params are

area_min,
area_max,
height_min,
height_max,
price_min,
price_max

Example: https://nftcryptonews.com/cv/sales.html?area_min=200&height_min=10&price_max=0.5

View max heights of parcels

Comparing Origin City with San Francisco

Complete the trade without even leaving the map!

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HTML5 UI

Website: https://www.cryptovoxels.com/play?ui=html

Using the mousewheel to change selected tile (highlighted on the overlay at the bottom of the screen).

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Events

Recorded in February 2019

Recorded in September 2019

Write-up: https://m3-org.github.io/research/panel.html
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAhPut6YKdE

We've gathered an incredible cast of lead developers building VR platforms to discuss virtual economies. How can creative people make a living inside these worlds? What ingredients are missing to catalyze a thriving user-generated content economy? What's the landscape look like? How can startups compete with big tech? Tune in to hear about what's around the corner and what excites these veteran VR developers in this riveting discussion filmed inside a virtual reality studio!

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Exokit

Website: https://web.exokit.org

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ETC

Cool arcade machines

Before

After

Black Streets

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New districts

Scripting

Midtown

Modville

Shenzhen

Memes

The Playa

Gangnam

Te Aro

Brand new!