Rare Land VR

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Summary:

Rare Land is an interactive experience platform with NFT compatibility, built for and power by the community through UGE (user-generated experiences).

Problems we are solving:

VR is very powerful, but let's face it: currently, VR is overhyped. Though the sale numbers for VR keep going up, most people buy a headset and only use it once. This is because the content and ecosystem is not ready. The best way to form the ecosystem is to accumulate foundational components with a marketplace, and we provide an intuitive platform for 3D NFTs and enable them to create stories and experiences with them in VR. Once we build the foundation for creators, we will provide a MMO virtual world where the ecosystem shines.

Solution:

We aim to build the ecosystem by building a creator platform for VR native assets and a virtual world for consumers to buy NFTs and socialize: a Decentraland + OpenSea with VR-native content. For developers, we provide an intuitive platform for 3D NFTs and enable them to create stories and experiences with them in VR. For consumers, we provide a MMO virtual world where users can buy the VR NFTs, interact with them and hang out with friends with these VR NFTs.

What it does

Rare Land is a cross-platform marketplace and social platform for interactive NFTs, built for and owned by the community. Simply put, it is Decentraland + OpenSea, an open world focusing on UGE (user generated experiences), where people are not just decorating rooms, but also making them alive by adding story lines, hosting EDM parties and making games in the worlds.

How we built it

We are an experienced crew from Meta AR/VR and AI from leadership and engineering architect team. We have experienced crypto natives as co-founders and advisors with deep connections within the Web3 ecosystem and hands-on knowledge about crypto-specific marketing and community management. We also have a co-founder who worked as the art director for Ubisoft and Tencent whose talent on art design is top-notch. Our team has a combination of skills and connections needed for a successful web3 metaverse project. Together we joined all the pieces and connected the bridges to make a VR NFT place to allow UGE.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The final deliverables are two products: a cross-platform consumer facing MMO social world where users can buy NFTs and use them to socialize with others in different scenes, and the creator facing platform that allows creators to maximize their 3D asset output with intuitive tools in VR.

Both MVPs are ready. The consumer facing NFT social world has launched and attracted 1000+ users in one week.

What's next for Rare Land VR

We plan to open source our code and onboard for devs from the community. For example, out asset creation and deployment as NFTs using ERC-1155 will be completely open sourced, as well as the support for cross-chain compatibility. We will release the content from the beginning, starting from Ethereum and Near, and extension to other chains. Integration of blockchain into VR will be partially released with the NFT deployment.

We are also iterating on refining the product. The blockchain components will continue to be built, and support for each chain will roughly take 300-500 hours to support foundational functionality with robustness and stability.