Openvoxels AMA / Wearables FAQ

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• (00:00:00) Background on CryptoVoxels and its role as a pioneer in blockchain-based virtual worlds and wearable NFTs.
• (00:13:15) Efforts to enhance wearables metadata, file formats, and decentralized hosting to ensure long-term preservation and interoperability.
• (00:28:33) Exploring potential paths forward for updating existing wearables collections, including upgrading metadata and creating a single snapshot collection.
• (00:51:31) The benefits of making CryptoVoxels an accessible avatar creation platform and the importance of allowing export to other metaverses.
• (01:04:26) Addressing the challenges of properly attributing individual creators in collaborative community wearable collections.
• (01:07:42) Next steps and future plans, including creating a museum-like wearables collection, exploring community ownership models, and integrating with other avatar builders and metaverse platforms.

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Notes

Based on the transcript, here is a bullet point summary of what was discussed, questions asked, and action steps being taken or planned:

• Jin provided an overview of his work on preserving and improving the metadata/assets for CryptoVoxels wearables to make them more interoperable and future-proof.
• He took snapshots of all wearable creators, collectors, and metadata to analyze for potential community governance.
• He improved wearable thumbnails, converted models to GLTF, encoded metadata into models, and hosted everything decentralized on Arweave.

Key points/questions discussed:

• Whether to release an all-new consolidated wearables collection or update existing collections
• Challenges of getting every collection owner to update their metadata
• Benefits of a consolidated collection for discoverability
• Exploring a community-owned DAO model for the consolidated collection
• Attributing authorship for collaborative/community collections
• Potential to integrate wearables into other metaverse platforms like Substrata

Action steps/plans:

• Release dataset of wearable snapshots and metadata for community input
• Explore upgrading metadata for a test existing collection
• Set up a testnet/subset for a potential consolidated new collection
• Engage community to decide path forward for consolidated vs updating existing
• Integrate wearables into M3's open source VRM avatar toolkit
• Explore VRM export for parcels and avatars
• Pursue more cross-metaverse/platform integration for CryptoVoxels wearables
• Establish community governance/ownership model like a DAO

Overall, a major initiative to make CryptoVoxels wearables robustly interoperable while preserving their history, with openness to community direction on the specific approach