MetaGymLand

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Inspiration

Our initial inspirations were VR fitness games on Oculus Quest.

So we wanted to build something similar, but without the need for a VR headset 🤔

Something that will utilize WebCam and AI Pose Detections 🎦 instead

Such that it can be more accessible on daily basis as using a VR headset may be cumbersome.

And We decided that including NFTs and tokenization will be another great asset for this project which will boost the incentive aspect for the users 🚀

Another inspiration is gather.town mainly as a tool for remote companies.

The main problem that MetaGymLand wants to solve, is the lack of tools that will incentivize people to do healthy breaks and daily workouts in the new remote working world.

We believe that MetaGymLand will help remote companies to support their remote workers to stay healthy and energized while `working from home

Another inspiration is stepn.com hence we will have move & earn features

What it does

MetaGymLand is Gamifying Daily Stretches and Workouts

You can:

[x] mint your NFT
[x] you will need to enable your webcam for pose detection
[x] enter MetaGymLand virtual gym room
[x] then you can move your body, and your NFT avatar will move with you 🤯 🙂
[x] buy playing minigames hidden in gym mats you can earn XP points

MetaGymLand is planning to do move & earn/stretch & earn which is inspired by stepn.com

Although our concept of play to earn is a bit different.

Play to earn will be an addition to MetaGymLand, not a core feature.

more about that: docs.metagymland.com/sustainable-play-and-earn

MetaGymLand is not a game per say but a habit-building tool for daily stretches with gamification

How we built it

TensorflowJS and Mediapipe deliver all the AI pose detection capabilities
Moralis makes talking to blockchains easier and faster
Chainlink VRF is used for NFT minting with fair distribution

NFT mint price stays the same, then the smart contract based on randomization from Chainlink VRF will decide which NFT you will get

The NFTs have 4 tiers: Mystic, Legendary, Rare, Common

Avalanche is used as the main L1 Blockchain on top of which all the MetaGymLand digital assets are built.

GymBuddies NFTs are on Avalanche Fuji Testnet

ipfs and filecoin is used for NFT storage by utilzing nft.storage
phaser is our Metaverse game engine
React for the frontend
Github Pages for deployment
figma for designs

One of the technical ideas while building this project was Edge Computing.

This means we want to keep most of the computations on the edge (so the client)

For example, AI and ML are client-side thanks to TensorflowJS and Mediapipe

It saves infrastructure costs
solves some issues related to performance
And what is the most important it enables privacy

ℹ️ When you use MetaGymLand with your WebCam 🎦 all the data stays with you
ℹ️ You are not sending to us your webcam stream

the pose detection is done on the edge, so your device

Challenges we ran into

smooth switching between webcams and not breaking the AI model
integrations of various tech together:

TensorFlow, Phaser, and Blockchain tech were challenging but interesting at the same time

Coming up with a good GameFi concept is not an easy thing

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Good UX
Beautiful design
Smooth integration of quite a lot of tech
MetaGymLand ended up being a very unique and original concept

What we learned

tons of stuff about Blockchains
hybrid smart contracts idea of Chainlink
what are pins in ipfs
GameFi system design
and many more...

What's next for MetaGymLand

More randomized game mechanics and randomized level creation, such that we will not be dependent on the need to constantly add new minigames
chrome-extension where the user will be able to schedule MetaGymLand session to make

MetaGymLand is more of a productivity tool rather than a game

marketplace
implementation of GameFi concepts that were clarified during this hackathon

Disclaimer

MetaGymLand was born on Moralis Avalanche Hackaton in December 2021

So some initial work was done there

Although we did a tone of Improvements during the Chainlink Spring 2022 Hackathon like:

Whitepaper (GameFi, Tokenomics) docs.metagymland.com
NFT minting with chainlink VRF for fair distribution
NFT traits
New NFT design
NFT details page, that shows the details and traits
Switch from ERC1155 to ERC721 for NFTs
better storage for our NFTs buy using filecoin nft.storage
New NFT collection GymBuddies
Sustainable Play and Earn concept docs.metagymland.com/sustainable-play-and-earn
Total rebrand and new product design