Metaversing: Home Spaces

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Twitter Spaces Notes 02/04/2022

Introduction
Marrianna from Rarible DAO:

• Brief Introduction of the Talks
• Previous talk subjects - meaning of freedom, differences in crypto groups, big companies entering space, the open metaverse
• Today's discussion of Home Spaces
  Jin:
• Homespace is where many people will start
• Where you start when you "boot up"
• The desktop for the metaverse
• Different for each platform right now

Discussion

• Each "faction" has a different ecosystem, but what if the open metaverse had a homespace?
• Calling your homespace your own- where you have control (keys to your castle)
• With FB's pivot to meta you can see their early idea of the Homespace: Display Walls, Avatar picking station

Marrianna:

• Friendlier . intuitive for newer people

Jin

• ArtifX on cyber Homespace Space Pod- Built on open standards and allows for customization
• Interchangeable and moddable architecture has a lot of potential
• Minting GLTF files

Marrianna:

• Depends on how things evolve
• How the open metaverse feels/ looks can attract way more people if their is a nice/cool customizeability in comparison to FB's set in stone architecture

Jin:

• Prefrabricated and Isolated vs Maker Oriented and personalized

Marrianna:

• "Seeing the world built around you" Not possible with FBMeta
• Unique and crazy experiences are possible with open metaverse

Jin:

• Real time building inside the platform vs Developing separately from platform
• A culture around being a creator, not just a consumer
• Being able to watch and learn while exploring
• Like having screenshare with a ghost mouse cursar
• Powerful future

Marrianna:

• Also allows you to see the code behind whats being created while you are inside the creation
• Cool for the common user

Jin:

• Open and moddable schematics are important
• Metamoondo helps optimize creations for multiple platforms
• Marketplace in Japan and VRchat Booth.pm has homespaces available(warrants a field trip)
  • Marketplace for avatars, shaders, graphics
  • Has a semi annual market with booths
• Common elemnts: media player, cozy lighting, and a mirror/ avatar changing station
• Possible to set to a persistent virtual world like NEOS and Webaverse
• Just a few basic ingredients to create an MVP

Marrianna:

• Metamoondo has NFTs
• Guarantees that the digital assets will work in multiple platforms
• How the user experience could improve/change to compete with closed metaverse

Jin

• Homespaces should work offline
• The hub where you launch applications from
• A new tab page
• Anarchy Arcade- based on openspec/metadata fields but with extra fields for 3D object- not resource intensive
• Interchangeable creations (example: building in cryptovoxels and exporting to a different platform)
• Homespaces so far are all islands separate from each other- need a seemless transition between worlds

Marrianna:

• Talking about interpoerability, is it happening anywhere yet?
• Have assets been transferred from one world to another?

Jin:

• Kinda Only Glimmer and Glimpses right noiw
• Wearables marketplace
• When an avatar can move between worlds- thats the biggest red pill moment
• Like Nature.vrm
• Spacepod Interop - Porting it to as many platforms as possible
• What is control and ownership when a platform controls your access to the space- Jailbroke and ported to other spaces
• The closer you are to the meta the more control you have a raspberry pi to the wider web, allows for layering and visualizing the network

Marrianna:

• For People whoi are less interested in building and more into exploringm, what will that look like?

Jin:

• Raspberry Pi is low barrier to entry- no command line interface needed
• Flash drive auto installs- easy intake flow
• Endgame is self hosting- decentralized servers
• Improve hardware wallets/ Media player to allow for shared experiences

Marrianna:

• Paths to decentralization, education and showcasing all the possibilities
• Self hosting is crucial for freedom, openness and decentralization
• Main challenge is navigating the noise and education
• Mentioning Raspberry Pi- a low barrier tool

Jin:

• People won't pay attention to anything unless there is a ticker
• NFts like the new printing press
• Showrooms showcasing the future we want to live in and build
• Expanding that out into a virtual showroom
• Create a culture about what we do not what we buy

Marrianna:

• Intermission

Jin:

• How to gain attention- culture is important
• Steps to becoming/ gaining status with NFTs versus buying one
• Action based achievements vs purchasable items

Marrianna:

• For someone just trying to start- building an avatar and hosting a homespace
• Hardware/Resources- Where to start?

Jin:

• For avatars: VRoid Studios
• For worlds - getting a mouse 3D VR moddelling tools
• VR modeling might be easier to begin with than 2d modeling for beginners
• Cryptovoxels great for building in world but no tooling for export yet
• Blender has good tutorial
• Not starting from cractch- just download from sketchfab and booth.pm
• Wood lasercutting
• Raspberry Pi Zero W
• Crossover of Raspberry Pi and WebXR has a lot of potential and should get more documentation
• Server to host files- the desktop runs the client side
• Tutorials on self hosting website
• Less about speculation and back to decetralization

Marrianna:

• Mentioning github resources
• We need to get back to the roots of what we want to build and the decetralized world we want to see
• Avoid the dystopian world being built around us

Jin:

• With hardware improvements this self hosting culture will become more popular
• Where we choose to spend time is where the direction our world can go
• Changing perspective

Marrianna

• Getting to the end
• Thanks/ Final thoughts?

Jin

• Working on a file homespace with airpod
• Will be streaming on NEOS VR