The NVIDIA Omniverse

*It’s a “metaverse for engineers,” according to them. *This is a metaverse much like the others, but NVIDIA is a hardware company, so the strategy here is to maximize the purchase and use of expensive processing chips.  

UbuWeb

One can trust e-flux to have plenty of interesting news on arcane topics of this sort. “UbuWeb.  All avant-garde, all the time!”   June 12, 2021 Château de Montsoreau Kenneth Goldsmith 1996 May 22–July 1, 2021 Château de Montsoreau—Museum of Contemporary Art Passage du Marquis de Geoffre 49730 Montsoreau France Hours: Monday–Sunday 10am–7pm T +33 […]

Showtime: an NFT gallery for creators and curators

https://tryshowtime.com/ Showtime, also known as tryshowtime, is yet another NFT display platform with yet another design scheme.  Showtime is not a 3D metaverse or a wunderkammer, but rather a set of flat, connected webpages where NFT collections from many different NFT auction platforms are arranged in clickable panes.   The scheme behind showtime is to […]

“Featured by Binance:” an NFT gallery directly owned by a cryptocurrency exchange

*Why shouldn’t the banker also be the gallerists, if it’s “blockchain art” anyway? *This gallery is still vaporware; it doesn’t exist.  It’s interesting to hear the cryptocoin traders describing why they want it to exist and why it would serve their commercial interests. https://featured.market/blog/introducing-featured-by-binance.html https://featured.market/blog/introducing-featured-by-binance.html Teck  CEO of Featured by Binance 10 June 2021 Introducing Featured by […]

NFT gallery display spaces: oncyber.io

*The entrepreneurs at oncyber.io have seen the difficulties with NFT display galleries.  They’ve tried to invent a simple technical solution.   *The user can pick among four standard “gallery spaces” that oncyber already designed. *Then the oncyber system reads the user’s “wallet” and picks out any NFT properties it can recognize. *The user is then […]

Il mercato degli NFT è già morto?

*Well, no.   Il mercato degli NFT è già morto?

Decorate your metaverse parcel with your NFT art

*Instead of making a cyberspace into an art gallery, maybe it’s more commercially sensible to use NFTs to decorate a virtual space that you already own as part of a game. https://www.playtoearn.online/2021/06/12/megacryptopolis-partners-with-rarible-to-decorate-world/ City building game MegaCryptoPolis has partnered with NFT marketplace Rarible to allow players to decorate their custom building interiors and storefronts with NFTs in […]

Spatial-dot-io

*The NFT wunderkammers are multiplying as fast as we can blog them.   Some are new; others were already doing similar work and see the chance to pivot.  

Chinese Martian augmented reality

*I may be mistaken, but I think these are the first augmented reality images from another planet.     https://720yun.com/t/d9vktq8wprm?scene_id=73950360  

RareRooms

*”RareRooms” is one among many new experiments to host NFT art in virtual spaces, semi-virtual spaces, game-like spaces,  or physical spaces with screens, or  with projectors, or, well, “wunderkammers” of pretty much every descripti0n. “One description is “metaverse parcel.”  Why is it called a “parcel?” Because it’s unreal-estate of a defined dimension and it can […]