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# About

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- :house: [**Back to home**](https://hackmd.io/@xr/book)

**What is this**

Here is where I document various projects coming from a small community of passionate people that are building pieces of an open and decentralized Metaverse. Each dev log is packed full of media and notes for getting a quick rundown on a project, made with creators in mind to reference or turn into articles, presentations, or videos.

Note from author:

> Everyday I think about the Metaverse and how it can be less friction and more freedom. Daily routines include talking with industry experts, making prototypes, documentation, bug testing, content creation, and virtual production planning. This about section is is to offer curious minds a glimpse into that world.

Ideas, feedback, curious? Contact me on discord: `jin#6455` or [twitter](https://twitter.com/dankvr).

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## Logs

#### 12/28/20

We have all the components, now it's time to build the Webaverse :city_sunset:


#### 12/26/20

Dropped into NeosVR and we met Orange building a cool fishing world: https://twitter.com/mikan3134/status/1343831752297435137


Exploring Somnium Space, desert mode looks pretty cool and changes the feel of the overall platform.


#### 12/25/20

M3 dropped into Vket5 to check out some booths in Default Cube, this one in particular had excellent presentation. We also talked about what makes Webaverse unique amongst the "competition".


#### 12/23/20

Chiming into the WIP christmas party, this is what an internet gathering of crypto people looks like :grin:


#### 12/22/20

Craftopia officially supports VRM models now with VRoid integration - no more mod required. All of my wearables on my Cryptovoxels avatar work now and multiplayer too!



#### 12/19/20

Visiting the VR Burn hosted by Sabby Life in VRChat. It was really cool how the main sculpture in the middle changed, reminded me of WaveXR burn event.


M3 gathering at the Webaverse booth located in Default Cube at Vket5.


#### 12/18/20

Visited the PlutoVR booth at Vket5, it had an interesting design.


#### 12/17/20

World hopping, I'm always inspired by the many VR worlds people create for fun.




#### 12/16/20

Gave a talk at a VRTO meetup about NFTs and WebXR. I minted an Opensea Vending Machine 3D NFT on Rarible: [View here](https://app.rarible.com/token/0xd07dc4262bcdbf85190c01c996b4c06a461d2430:97553:0x33debb5ee65549ffa71116957da6db17a9d8fe57)


#### 12/13/20

Designed a new jacket to go with my latest [art piece](https://makersplace.com/jin/). The owner of the art can extract the file.


#### 12/12/20

Visiting VRCon, a VR conference in VR. It's designed like a Flotilla, very reminiscent of VRTO.


#### 12/11/20

Save by [amanek](https://twitter.com/amanek_), a hazy beach with the sound of waves against the white noise sky.


https://twitter.com/amanek_/status/1337359915870953479

#### 12/1/20

The Japanese VR / crypto community is experimenting with NFTs inside virtual worlds also. This screenshot was taken from a Unity web app: https://conata.world/shop/top


This is what coinmarketcap looked like 1 year ago.


#### 11/30/20

Met Greg Notzelman in VR and showed him around in VRChat. We visited the Internet Archive, Meta District, Vket4, and some other places.


#### 11/29/20

Had my portrait painted by a robot, the final piece was minted as a NFT! https://makersplace.com/jin/jin-1-of-2-40083/


Acquired Hito's Free Thought Cafe by Greg Notzelman, the shipping containers stuck out at me and so many other finer details in this [piece](https://makersplace.com/jin/hitos-free-thought-cafe-1-of-5-39818/).


#### 11/28/20

Check out this amazing Zelda BOTW remake in VRChat!


#### 11/24/20

Experimenting with rinkeby test mints for the [home space](https://hackmd.io/@xr/hhomekit) NFTs on https://cargo.build/.


It'd be great to have an unlock when purchased feature where I as the author can update the chest with new releases.


#### 11/22/20

Interesting learning experience on VRChat parcels while designing our Vket5 booth.


#### 11/21/20

Published a moodboard about shipping container homes and offices: https://slate.host/jin/shippingcontainers


#### 11/19/20

Building the Webaverse booth for Vket5.


#### 11/18/20

Learning more about the [Network State](https://1729.com/) project, a plan for building a new city that starts out in the cloud and eventually terraforms a part of Earth.


#### 11/17/20

Front row at the [FIVARS](https://fivars.net) awards show that took place in Mozilla Hubs!


#### 11/16/20

Idea: Turn the [hacker homekit](https://hackmd.io/@XR/hhomekit) into an actual asset kit. Create a premade version and one where people can assemble.


After tokenizing and releasing the home space VR world, will work on a webxr portal hub based on an old Janus lobby.


#### 11/15/20

Additional research and writing about the NFT Discord bot: https://hackmd.io/@xr/nftbot

#### 11/14/20

Did a bit of work on the crypto stonk exchange virtual production set.


#### 11/13/20

I'm a fan of dotbigbang's avatar maker. There's 4 parts: head, body, arms, legs.


#### 11/11/20

:latin_cross:

#### 11/10/20

Collecting 3D models and images of various homes and businesses made from shipping containers: https://slate.host/jin/shippingcontainers


#### 11/8/20

Working on open sourcing the cryptovoxels avatars: https://github.com/madjin/cryptovoxels-avatars


#### 11/7/20

Planning on creating a digital USA project inspired by Japaneland. The concept requires a scale 3D model of the physical land mass with pins that open portals into user generated photogrammetry scenes.


Based on the size of Japaneland (1/2000 scale) and compared to the US it's going to be quite a large base model. Note: this map was not created with satellite data.


#### 11/6/20

Trying out VSeeFace, one of the highest quality vtuber software. It's also free!


#### 11/5/20


#### 11/4/20


#### 11/1/20

Added a section about Cryptoavatars to dev log: https://hackmd.io/@XR/avatars#Cryptoavatars


#### 10/31/20



#### 10/30/20


#### 10/28/20

Beeple dives into cryptoart with both feet and even checks out cryptovoxels!


#### 10/27/20

Cryptovoxels mod team meeting in Mozilla Hubs. It's cool when projects are open minded to take a field trip to another platform.


#### 10/24/20

I got a new camera for my avatar, virtuallens 3.0 :slightly_smiling_face: :camera:


#### 10/22/20

Fully rendered map of Decentraland released on https://decentraland.icu. I immediatly noticed how the biggest districts are :frowning:.


#### 10/21/20

Learned about PlayCanvas with SMSithLord, made the hacker homekit into a multi-user avatar experience. It's like collaborative Unity in the browser.


#### 10/20/20

Released a couple virtual photography pieces:

- [Doom District](https://app.rarible.com/token/0x60f80121c31a0d46b5279700f9df786054aa5ee5:53894:0x33debb5ee65549ffa71116957da6db17a9d8fe57)
- [Unknown Street](https://app.rarible.com/token/0x60f80121c31a0d46b5279700f9df786054aa5ee5:53915:0x33debb5ee65549ffa71116957da6db17a9d8fe57)


#### 10/17/20

M3 hosted for the Untitled NFT hackathon, had lightning talks and rich discussions between web3 and webxr developers.


#### 10/16/20

Recorded a panel inside the reconstruction of the Internet Archive about Metaverse composability.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t4IQwq47LuY" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4IQwq47LuY

There was also a camera that was recording the entire thing in 180 3D!


#### 10/13/20

Creating some new NFTs for people to collect, the ETH helps support independent Metaverse research.


#### 10/12/20

New virtual production studio is ready inside the 3D scanned Internet Archive! Been a year since we made a set inside photogrammetry.


#### 10/11/20

Avaer has been quietly building a third party client that can render Cryptovoxels, Decentraland, and Mozilla Hubs worlds.




#### 10/10/20

It's trippy having an art gallery inside the world the art is about.


#### 10/9/20

Voxelkei uploaded a 3D 180 camera avatar to VRChat, been testing it out.


#### 10/8/20

Still wild to of seen sprite and billboarded alpha video avatars in the wild. It was during a Burning Man event in AltspaceVR.


#### 10/7/20

Avaer got live Decentraland data being pulled into his threejs web client. The absolute mad man.


#### 10/6/20

Exploring FIVARS with [bai](https://twitter.com/bai0), a webxr indie film festival: https://fivars.net


#### 10/5/20

Added a social lounge designed by FirefoxG into an online virtual film festival: fivars.net


#### 10/3/20

Bought a Dolphin role membership for WHALE community for research. There's a DAO that paid roles have the ability to participate in.


#### 10/2/20

Isolate mode has been quietly fixed in Cryptovoxels, thinking about how the negative space around the parcel can be used with XR layers. Imagine being able to change the channel like Gmod Elevator.


#### 9/30/20

Purchased the first [CryptoAvatar](https://cryptoavatars.io/), an ERC721 token for VRMs - the most open and interoperable avatar format. It's based on GLTF, a royalty free 3D model file format.


#### 9/28/20

Epic discussion with IX about connecting digi-physical [hackerspaces](https://hackmd.io/@xr/hackerspaces) together into a virtual reality network.


#### 9/27/20

Watched an awesome presentation and Q&A on [$WHALE](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKwYcvztdXTCQgcmh0fMXJA/about), the most popular social token backed by the most valuable NFT collection in the world. [Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aonkR7ksG1I)


#### 9/26/20

Explored MCCVR, a Bitcoin crypto conference taking place in a custom Mozilla Hubs client. It felt like being inside a cartoon!


#### 9/25/20

Playing with https://slate.host/, a stylish IPFS / Filecoin inventory system. Works great with Anarchy Arcade!


#### 9/22/20

Downloaded [Craftopia](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1307550/Craftopia/) after seeing a VRM mod exist to port avatars in. Craftopia is inspired by a mash up of many popular games like Fortnite, Zelda BOTW, Pokemon, Runescape, etc.


It's also good for experimenting with ideas that [Webaverse](https://twitter.com/webmixedreality/status/1306094089448894465) is exploring too.

#### 9/19/20

Finally saw in VR what the mythical GHOSTCLUB is about :ghost: Here's a good [write-up](https://juicybomb.com/2020/09/26/ghost-club/).


#### 9/18/20

Started work on a digi-physical art show collaboration taking place later in Fall.


#### 9/17/20

Connected Discord, Matrix, and Mozilla Hubs together using [bot bridges](https://matrix.org/bridges/).


#### 9/16/20

Watched Facebook Connect conference where they had a virtual production set talking about [creating live performances in social VR](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mdIdGTr1PI). It's quite a contrast from the VR underground that we are.


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#### 9/12/20

Acquired Flipside by obxium: https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/flipside-6577


#### 9/10/20

Updated: https://hackmd.io/@XR/cryptoartshow


#### 9/9/20

Light improvements to my Cryptovoxels parcel: https://www.cryptovoxels.com/play?coords=SE@192E,52N


#### 9/7/20

Became maintainer of the vtuber studio unity project, now up on Github: https://github.com/madjin/vtuber-studio


#### 9/6/20

Almost have 360 + 3D depth streaming working from VRChat to the web browser!


#### 9/3/20

Created a Mozilla Hubs version of the Internet Archive's Great Room: https://hubs.mozilla.com/NpEDx7H/greatroom


#### 9/1/20

Buiding a Cryptoxels space for Crypto Art Show: https://hackmd.io/@XR/cryptoartshow#Megavox


#### 8/30/20

Checking out BRCvr in Altspace, amazing Burning Man experience.


#### 8/28/20

Superrare Atlantis show + Convergence panel: Art and Blockchain in VR



#### 8/26/20

Finished and minted the whole Internet Archive series on Makersplace: https://makersplace.com/jin/


#### 8/25/20

Cool glitch while exploring Prankslyand


#### 8/22/20

Took several members of [M3](https://github.com/m3-org) on a field trip into NeosVR. Some developers joined us, showed us cool gadgets and worlds, and discussed interoperability and standards like WASM.


#### 8/20/20

Lightmapping feature shipped in Cryptovoxels! Chatted with bnolan about interoperability, he is open to supporting further development of the Cryptovoxels Unity project which allows for mesh export.


#### 8/19/20



#### 8/16/20


#### 8/15/20

Building Internet Archive VR experiences using a 3D scan of the actual place.

<div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/448360441?color=ffffff&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script>

See previous virtual experiments: https://hackmd.io/@XR/internetarchive

Also making an underwater version of the Internet Archive.


#### 8/11/20

Cryptoart Show part 2? https://hackmd.io/@XR/cryptoartshow


#### 8/8/20

Ported my Vroid avatar into Somnium Space, process was similar to VRChat: https://hackmd.io/@XR/avatars


#### 8/5/20

Finished and submitted a [HackFS project](https://hackmd.io/@xr/hackfs) and gave a demo of interconnected Dweb hackerspaces.



Built a brainstorming world for visualizing the [IPFS ecosystem](https://github.com/madjin/ipfs-ecosystem).


#### 8/3/20

Uploaded first virtual hackerspaces to VRChat




#### 7/31/20

Uploaded first virtual hackerspace to Github: https://github.com/madjin/nsl-vr


#### 7/27/20

Converted IPFS ecosystem into MSF nodes in Anarchy Arcade



#### 7/24/20

Published The Grid part 4: https://hackmd.io/@XR/grid4


#### 7/20/20

Building a home space for showcasing some cryptoart from makersplace.


#### 7/18/20

Exported the M3 panel film set from Unity into Blender and retextured. Working on a JanusWeb world to place the archived alpha webm video in there.


#### 7/17/20

Created a method to convert avatars into pixelart spritesheets with walk animations.


#### 7/15/20

Making progress on my HackFS project with a method to give presentations as a vtuber with perfect green screen background.


#### 7/13/20

Discovered an awesome Japanese band called [memex](https://twitter.com/memex_am) that performs in VRChat across multiple instances.


https://vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_21a48553-fd25-40d0-8ff0-b4402b36172a

#### 7/11/20

Building out my Cryptovoxels parcel in Makers of the shipping container home space: https://www.cryptovoxels.com/play?coords=SE@187E,3U,53N


#### 7/9/20

Working on a business card for my avatar that can spawn in and display perfectly on peoples screens when they look closely at it.


Chillin in the VR lab (https://hackmd.io/@XR/hhomekit)


#### 7/6/20

Started HackFS hackathon, going to prove the Dweb + VR stack is here to the entire web3 community.


#### 7/5/20

Building a digital startup city takes time, community comes first. I want 1 place for all the best ideas and minds making the Metaverse to have representation. It will make a good event hosting and meeting place, as well as an outdoor virtual production set.



#### 7/3/20

Dropped into boomboxhead's new studio, a psychedelic chill room with blacklight.


Gave a group a tour of the Meta District world and new stock exchange set, shot some b-roll because having a group in VR mode in your studio is an opportunity!


More pics: https://imgur.com/a/hf4SrP1

#### 7/2/20

Toured the [SushiDragon](http://twitch.tv/sushidragon) VR studio that boomboxhead made to someday collaborate with the wizard of OBS.


#### 7/1/20

Working on a collaborative VR workspace out of a giant air hangar 3D model. Would be a nice addition to Makers District.


#### 6/30/20

Discovered a VRChat Fortnite avatar world that had characters from pretty much every season. Might be useful in the future.


#### 6/29/20

Recorded an epic presentation by Avaer during VRTO at the M3 wing of the flotilla.

#### 6/28/20

Toured virtual worlds with boomboxhead and Artist3D, talking about all sorts of things related to VR and events.


#### 6/26/20

Attended the SuperRare gallery launch in VRChat where they announced support for 3D NFTs.


#### 6/24/20

Tested out the VRM indie game Action Drill, you can import your own avatar into it. Pretty cool.


#### 6/23/20

Updated xrdevlog about page to clean up the links on the home page.


#### 6/21/20

Prepared multiple professional looking vtuber avatars for virtual productions.


#### 6/16/20

Acquired a lab coat for my vroid avatar, I'm ready for science!


#### 6/14/20

The NIFTIES camp is growing. Added virtual production gear, and more Cryptovoxels to the scene.


#### 6/11/20

Published [IPFS VR](https://hackmd.io/@xr/ipfsvr), a dev log about bringing the IPFS and VR communities closer together.


#### 6/9/20

SM Sith Lord ported my favorite Anarchy Arcade map, Meta Hood, to Mozilla Hubs! It's incredibly low poly (89k tri) considering that every house is modeled inside and outside. This street might become famous someday, because I am going to soon port it to every platform I can.


You can download it from Sketchfab: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/meta-hood-5a352433d87641b8b08bf3513233b434

#### 6/6/20

I'm one of the first people to review the vtuber pro studio unity package being made by [Godfrey Meyer](https://twitter.com/godfreymeyer). It is quite technical and has everything you need to start production with virtual avatars.


#### 6/5/20

Finishing touches on a virtual set for doing a show with a cryptoart marketplace in the future. We're almost ready to produce a season of content with artist interviews, market news, and some educational content.


#### 6/4/20

[James Baicoianu](https://twitter.com/bai0) has done the incredible and added the Janus SFU backend (same WebRTC infrastructure as Mozilla Hubs) into JanusWeb. This means that the web client for [JanusXR](https://janusxr.org) has low latency VOIP, video sharing, and in the future screen sharing.


The live videos are getting mapped onto the hoverscreen avatars. They are inspired by the flying screens from [Invader Zim](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbhz-h_6AOA).



#### 6/2/20

Mix and matching Cryptovoxel NFT wearables with my open standards based [VRM](https://vrm.dev/en/) avatar.


#### 5/31/20

I refound this video while looking for something else. It's been exactly 1 year since this video was taken from DCL beta when they were still using Babylonjs for the main web client.

<div style="width:100%;height:0px;position:relative;padding-bottom:56.250%;"><iframe src="https://streamable.com/e/k3xnzq" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="100%" allowfullscreen style="width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;overflow:hidden;"></iframe></div>

The recording isn't laggy, it's the client. The performance was not good and they were supposed to go live in a few weeks time.

#### 5/29/20

Doing research on the top 3 blockchain based virtual world projects for a [M3 write-up](https://github.com/m3-org/research).


Toured an amazing [VRChat world](https://vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_fb4619d6-70b2-49d4-800f-6fb699f2f87b) by Hagbard with Yura Miron and [Godfrey Meyer](https://superrare.co/godfreymeyer/creations).


#### 5/28/20

Checking out a preview of VRTO, they're building an awesome virtual expo for their 5th anniversary!


#### 5/26/20

<iframe width="100%" height="400" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dv-AjLEbpu8" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

#### 5/24/20

Modifying my avatar with a [chloma](https://chloma.com) hat, [Metafactory](https://metafactory.ai) jacket, and [Cryptovoxels](https://cryptovoxels.com) sword.


Then I got ported into source engine game Anarchy Arcade!


#### 5/22/20

Working on porting the [home space](https://github.com/madjin/home-space) into Cryptovoxels and making progress on finishing the JanusWeb + ENS + IPFS + WebXR build.



#### 5/20/20

If Cryptovoxels had VRM support it would look like a very different place..


#### 5/16/20

Shared a presentation to virtual rare art festival about ideas on how to distribute the work in building a multiverse burn.


#### 5/15/20

Hosted a VR meetup to talk about VR meetups and streamed it live from the NIFTIES studio to Consensus Distributed! https://nifties.com/news_details/vr-meetup-to-discuss-vr-meetups


View recording: https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1261405082706341889

#### 5/14/20

Gave a presentation at WIP meetup on Thursday about NIFTIES and how we seek to grow the NFT space.



#### 5/12/20

Gazing at Proxima, the first blockchain based grid where the parcels go vertical.


#### 5/11/20

Celebrating in Decentraland during Bitcoin halving day :confetti_ball: :champagne:


Photography from M3 Vket4 Field trips are uploaded to [Imgur](https://imgur.com/a/vnEDNui?grid).


#### 5/7/20

We're doing a virtual production for Consensus Distributed! Is this real life?


#### 5/6/20

We had some crazy ideas and discussions on the desert.

- Talking about different augs
- tip jar representing crowdfund
- prototype can become an MVP
- Aemeth is startup / biz savvy
- Suggested a cool token idea: proof of human work by recording construction of VR art
- Tokenize something that was made in VR?
- Better version of Oekaki painting studio?


#### 5/5/20

\> They launch a token and decentralized film studio, challenging the studio establishment.

Is someone making a documentary about Meta District? :joy:


#### 5/3/20

Added various company logos to a table next to the template booths. Will make them pickupable to produce a custom booth service commercial.


#### 5/2/20

I celebrated the 1 year anniversary of M3. To date we've had 17 virtual meetups, 46 presentations, and 5 research field trips.

https://github.com/M3-org/research


#### 5/1/20

Exploring Vket4 while jaredmonkey scans QR codes, not sure what the scanning of QR codes will turn into yet. Supposedly an ARG?


#### 4/30/20

Last day of Dragon Quest hackathon! https://hackathon.metacartel.org/


#### 4/29/20

Vket4, the world's largest virtual expo, opens to the public. There are 1400+ individually crafted booths across 43 worlds, more than 2x as many as Vket3.


#### 4/28/20

Premiere of Virtual Hollywood concept, a fully digital production pipeline for remote workers.

<iframe width="100%" height="400" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WaTeheSCbgI" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

#### 4/27/20

Started working on a VRM version of the Metafactory genesis jacket. When complete the wearable will be compatible across a dozen virtual worlds.


#### 4/25/20



#### 4/23/20

The virtual sound stages and distributed production are starting to come alive, exciting times!



#### 4/21/20

Added new dev logs about [noclip.website](https://hackmd.io/@xr/noclip), [webaverse](https://hackmd.io/@xr/webaverse), and [ETHDenver](https://hackmd.io/@XR/ethdenver).


#### 4/17/20

Making nice progress on the M3 Mixer world, the event will be next Saturday!


#### 4/14/20

Working on the documentation of the multiverse burn from a collection of experiments from the grid series on xrdevlog.com. Burning Man recently announced that they cancelled this year (first time ever) and are going virtual.


#### 4/12/20

Building a virtual set inspired by the moon and lambos memes in crypto.


#### 4/11/20

Behind the scenes on the first run of Gunter's Basement, a talkshow produced inside VRchat.


#### 4/10/20

Inspired by Cinetracer, [Matt Workman](https://twitter.com/cinedatabase) is gamifying the entire production pipeline using Unreal engine. Link to [Youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN0HxYF_yeEOGEodgK6ww0Q).


#### 4/8/20

Finished retexturing and tested the stonk exchange model, the largest battlestation me and boomboxhead ever worked on! :grin:


#### 4/4/20

Lead M3 on Mozilla Hubs with 4 speakers and an afterparty mixer in VRChat.



#### 4/3/20

Finished the world and made the flyer for the 2nd Metaverse Makers Mixer.


#### 3/31/20

Thinking about how this virtual production set can be completely virtualized and remote accessible. [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bErPsq5kPzE)


#### 3/29/20

Checking out Boomboxhead's new digital studio, it's got all the bells and whistles!


#### 3/28/20

Concept for what I think will be a great Metaverse platform. VRM avatars, multiplayer, game within a game (websurfaces), merchandising (Opensea vending machine), all powered by open standards and web technology.


This home-kit can be a starter place, customized within the client using the in-game editor (f1). One can use the provided assets or drag and drop their own. Source: https://github.com/madjin/home-space

#### 3/27/20

Hosted a M3 research trip to explore and discuss blockchain virtual worlds. We world hopped between Decentraland, Cryptovoxels, and Somnium Space. The write-up will be posted to https://github.com/m3-org/research when it's done.


#### 3/25/20

Testing out [Virtual Cast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG0RmyYSDFM), vTuber software that's made in Unity and supports VRM avatars. It allows for multiplayer, screensharing, whiteboarding, props, and more.


#### 3/23/20

Gave a presentation on the distributed Metaverse to the IPFS community, see notes: https://hackmd.io/@XR/ipfsvr


#### 3/21/20

Hosted M3 and gave a presentation on producing VR conferences, 32+ attended our virtual event!


#### 3/20/20

Made a flyer for a M3 meetup in Hubs and afterparty in VRChat and two Quest compatible worlds.

#### 3/19/20

Posted a [new dev log](https://hackmd.io/@xr/vrconferences) that's all about virtual conferences and a VR burn idea I've been day dreaming about.


#### 3/16/20

Added a dev log on metaverse avatar interoperability.


https://hackmd.io/@XR/avatars

#### 3/14/20

We interviewed [JOY](https://joy.lol) remotely in our virtual reality studio that he helped design!


#### 3/12/20

Stonks :chart_with_downwards_trend:
Crypto :chart_with_downwards_trend:
Virtual Reality :chart_with_upwards_trend:

#### 3/10/20

Rediscovered [noclip.website](https://noclip.website/#mm3d/z2_sougen;ShareData=ACpxzUuDV?Tyy2h9dU8a+:It~P~D-%5EUbFn%5BT%5B1~wVp%7B%5B0UA%7Dtc8_*~RUwZrfVt), couldn't sleep and stop thinking about the composable webxr possibilities.


#### 3/9/20

Got my first chloma avatar wear, a [comfy hat](https://chloma.com/collections/avatar-wear/products/avatar-wearreflect-furry-cap-black)!


#### 3/8/20

Experimented with a cute highly optimized avatar format that relies on only 1 material, similar to minecraft avatars. Might be useful someday.


#### 3/7/20

Catching up with [Metafactory](https://metafactory.ai/) and [Boomboxhead](https://gm3.github.io/devportfolio/) in [Hubs](https://hubs.mozilla.com) to discuss virtual worlds, fashion, conferences, and music videos!


#### 3/6/20

Discovered [Chloma](https://chloma.com/), a fashion brand that blends the physical and digital together with a y2k cyberart tech wear aesthetic. Instantly fell in love: https://collection.chloma.com/ui/


#### 3/3/20

Added third person mode to the Cryptovoxels VRChat world.


#### 3/2/20

Checked out the updated photo studio, it's getting quite advanced for digital film production.


#### 2/29/20


#### 2/27/20

Digital reconstruction of ETHDenver using smartphone 3D scans: https://hackmd.io/@xr/ethdenver


#### 2/26/20

RIP 1001, a talented and beloved member of the VRChat content creator community. Link to post: https://medium.com/vrchat/remembering-1001-973ac391c4df


#### 2/24/20

Gave Decentraland a try, beautiful world!


#### 2/23/20

Wandered around Makers district with ToxSam, he's incredibly talented.


#### 2/17/20

ETHDenver was epic, took tons of 3D scans of the venue that will be used for digital reconstruction and virtual meetups.


#### 2/12/20

Working on the CV parcel for ETHDenver: https://www.cryptovoxels.com/parcels/921


#### 2/9/20

Dropped a [teaser](https://twitter.com/NIFTIES_com/status/1226616362962968579) to the nifties cryptoart ETHDenver VR experience on social.


#### 2/8/20

Learned how to enable 3rd person mode in VRChat, might be useful later on!


#### 2/6/20

Construction work of a makerspace art gallery parcel for ETHdenver.


#### 2/5/20

Learned how to accessorize my avatar and add dynamic bones :sunglasses:


#### 2/4/20

Tired...


#### 2/3/20

Thinking about the next art series. Planning animation, scifi, and otherworldly elements.


#### 2/1/20

Watched Pointshark build a metro station in Cryptovoxels, North Terrace is looking good.


SM Sith Lord started building an awesome cyberpunk desert alley in Anarchy Arcade during his [stream](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/545299135?t=05h30m49s). His use of nodes to quickly populate large areas with content was inspiring.


Perhaps every Cryptovoxels parcel can similarly be thought of as a node?

#### 1/30/20

Thinking about how to present my first cryptoart series in a virtual world and on social media.


#### 1/28/20

Recorded a presentation that covers an entire overview of Exokit, see the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSIxi7zFwoY


#### 1/25/20

Revisted Virtual Market 4 with a friend, we discussed friction in the virtual economy and the role cryptocurrencies can play in reducing it.


Minted my 3rd cryptoart, [River Alph](https://makersplace.com/store/jin/river-alph-1-of-3-17255/), a piece inspired by [Kubla Khan](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan).


Inside this piece there is a dark version of the poem that has since been withheld from international publication for being too dangerous.

#### 1/21/20

Event planning, documentation, and creating a new cryptoart piece. GM3 and I are planning epic cryptoart shows in VR. I'm building an Oculus Quest experience to give people a glimpse during next months Ethereum conference.

#### 1/19/20

Made some progress with virtual being experiments and been getting back into creating digital street art: https://makersplace.com/store/jin/


#### 1/14/20

Working on a couple of higher quality web frontends for publishing blogs on. xrdevlog will continue providing raw coverage of metaverse experiments.

Also, helped GM3 make a 3D website, features https://krunker.io on the screen. Can check it out here: https://gm3.github.io/webvrshop/


#### 1/8/20

Writing and reflecting on the past 2 years.

#### 1/5/20

Gave a show n' tell [presentation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra9gJ-m9y7E&feature=youtu.be&t=5880) of Origin City at the VRChat community meetup.


New updates and walkthrough of the Cryptoart Basel event, shot film for concept video.


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#### 1/4/20

Updated with two new posts: [Crypto Art Show](https://hackmd.io/@XR/cryptoartshow) and [The Grid Part 3](https://hackmd.io/@XR/grid3)!

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#### 1/2/20

Testing many avatars in the Exokit avatars demo: https://avatars.exokit.org


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#### 12/30/19

It's been almost a year of xrdevlog, working on a big picture summary of it using hackmd's revealjs integration. I estimate several months to finish.


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