The beacons are lit!!! dlux calls for aid!
The story so far
Around New Years I was inspired to learn javascript, blockchain tech, VR and XR tech; More about game theory, value and attention than I ever thought possible. @markegiles has been on this journey with me as we were pushing media boundaries with our joint venture Otolux. In late January we were able to come up with our first goal post, referencing VR data on blockchain. Since then we've been able to demonstrate multiple proof of concepts and push the boundary of whats possible with blockchain.
dlux: This is where most of the magic takes place. This is a VR steem front-end that is accessible on all devices with a modern browser.This project is completely open source and available to collaborate on github!
VR IDE: This is an open source web based IDE and spring board for your very own dApp. Following the directions on the README will have you posting your very own simple VR chat room in less than 10 minutes. There is an integrated external IPFS management system, a VR inspector, and side-by-side code and applet. This test environment loads blockchain data into the applet and once it is posted will reference it's own steem blockchain data when viewed from dlux. This enables a virtually limitless create space for censorship-resistant, ad-free, VR anything. Build a classroom and teach people history or science, publish it to dlux and people can come together and learn while interacting, reinforcing, and collaborating on tasks. Build games, experiences... anything your mind can imagine can be represented in VR with enough effort.
If you want to contribute to this IDE: the inspector can be forked and functionality added such that when assets are added or moved/positioned/scaled/connected the resulting HTML can be pasted into the Glitch text editor in the left iFrame. Allowing people to build scenes with no coding knowledge. (animation and interaction will still require coding, but this opens development to a far wider audience)
AR Applet: Contains the beginning of an Aframe-AR applet. The goal here is to create an applet much like above, that self references its blockchain data and displays a vote button over a standard AR marker. The user writes a title, tags, and a description of their physical asset. Possibly a tip card, maybe a mural, maybe feeding the homeless. The applet should just be a vote button and a display of the title, tags, and post. Allowing anybody with a smart phone to load the blogpost via QR code, see its data, and decide to vote on it(or become aware of steem and dlux). Currently I'm having issues with camera permissions across sporadic devices and browsers. This would be a terrific entry point for anybody interested in AR. Of course this one button app is open source and users can make assets of nearly any kind. The scene can be networked and the same qr code in two different locations can display the same data; a billboard in LA and NY can show the same API information when people point their phone at it. Or people can play chess with their phones at a park with others, and also keep track of wins and losses globally.
Social 360 Video: This is a 360 video template. These can be social as well... this one isn't quite complete either, but wouldn't take long to put together if you have a need. There are endless ways to utilize VR to create experience and communicate p2p.
While asking for input on my white paper, @tibra was remarking about the lack of adequate academic review and journaling options. So I put together a quick and dirty front-end that is a few lines of UI away from placing up to
63900 bytes of binary data on chain for permanent storage and the ability to recall that data in anything that a web browser can display. Files over 64 Kb? Place them on IPFS and reference them in the post body when displayed. Couple this with a Custom_JSON solution for non-stake-weighted voting (one flag one vote) and we can have anti-spam, monetized, academic publishing.
I intend on publishing my dlux whitepaper on this platform before September 1.
Help?
Discord is the best place to get a hold of us!
This is a very interesting concept and using the collaborative power of the internet could turn this idea into something incredible. VR tech works well, I am a huge fan especially the VR Horror games. However VR has not yet exploded onto the scene the way I had hoped it would I believe in part it is due to the uncomfortable and unsocial nature of VR combined with a lack of advertising it as the new norm. Imagine if you will, a living room with Blue Tooth Surround Sound to socialize or earbuds to be private and instead of a TV at the core of the room, there is VR googles that are truly comfortable to wear and a set for everyone in the room. Instead of a couch, each person is seated on a lazyboy that can turn 360 degrees and recline. People can experiance movies in 360VR without ear buds so they can still interact, games can be played in the same way. Eventually gaming consoles will catch on and the whole dynamic of the living room will move forward into the next step in its evolution. Instead of split screen or having to play online to allow full screen gaming, friends will all be in the same room playing a common game with a full view from their headset. Think back to 1910, years before the invention of the Television, parents sat on chairs and children on the floor to listen to the radio before the invention of the TV in 1927. Blockchain could be leveraged in any number of ways here, recording rank, managing accounts and even running the game (in the future). I will keep an eye on this project, because I think it has huge potential, utilizing the collective knowledge to work on a project always gives an advantage vs. a hand full of people to create something. Good luck and thanks for posting.
Glad to be hearing such positive feedback. Blockchain needs to be show not tell. Until people understand it's power it will just be seen as a speculative investment. Bringing Social VR to this social blockchain goes a long way, and through AR we can bring anything in reality along with it. I'm hoping this is the killer app, especially because everybody is investing in to VR and it has a huge advertising problem which I believe we've solved. I hope you were able to read the whitepaper and ico drafts.
I read the article, the whitepaper I have opened in a tab and will get to it soon. I began following you and will comment again after I have read it through.
So I have now read the Glitch Whitepapers and I like it a lot. Are there many Apps already written to the Glitch infrastructure? When someone modifies and App do they get to digitally sign it so people know who created this version of the app? I would like to test it out for myself and modify an App, then I could write an article about it on my blog linking the App I modified showing people how easy it is.
Glitch has it's own permissions, none of the content there subjects you to steem wallet loses though. once the content is posted on the steem blockchain via IPFS it is digitally signed. There are a few aframe developers that have things on Glitch. Aframe's blog has a nice variety of concepts and librarys the community has developed. I've made some of my posts while livestreaming and I'd love to do that with you as well. You can go from concept to execution in as little as 10 minutes. You can build a new level for a game every week or so and let the world experience it with you. You can do anything.
The living room offers incredible opportunities for mixed reality. The TV has long been the focal point, but we're now seeing devices like the Nintendo Switch mix this up and encourage players to look at each other in games like 1-2-Switch. Soon AR glasses will be commonplace and IoT will enable everything in the home to interact. Our goal is to build a framework allowing anyone to create experiences for these new exciting technologies and be rewarded for their creativity and time. As all tech continues to democratize only the ideas will retain value, and that is what Steem allows us to monetize.
Sounds good to me, not only for my home entertainment but I am invested in IOTA so lets make it happen. lol
You have a minor grammatical mistake in the following sentence:
It should be its own instead of it's own.shut up
Who?
Grammarnazi lol
I know right! He is writing technical stuff, grammar cant always be correct for tech talk.
That sentence was an absolute mess though... XD
No worries, I have my share of grammatical errors on my blog.
No worries, I have
My share of grammatical
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- embomb701
I'm a bot. I detect haiku.
Wow really?