Somnium Space describes itself as “an open, social & persistent VR world built on blockchain.” Let’s unpack that a bit. First off, a VR world is a digital space that gives you the ability to immerse yourself completely into a new dimension. Somnium Space’s take on the format includes spatial sound, dynamically changing weather, real time shadows, and a real sense of presence.
But what makes VR world open? An open world allows users to move about a digital landscape freely without running into invisible walls, being forced to teleport to a neighboring region, or waiting on a loading screen as you move you from one region to another. It’s critical to maintaining the experience of being in a real place. It might be a digital place, but if it behaves like the real world and doesn’t break immersion, it feels real.
What makes a VR world social? In Somnium’s case, it means that features enabling interactions with other inhabitants are prioritized; you won’t be walking around a ghost town or a village of mutes. And because Somnium Space is a world built by its users, it’s constantly changing.
What makes a VR world persistent? Here, it means that there’s a single, shared state of the Somnium Space world that all users experience across sessions. The Somnium world keeps on turning and changing even while you’re away.
Somnium Space is a digital reality where you can move around freely, interact with others, and (except where other denizens have been at work enriching the environment) count on seeing roughly the same world each time you visit. In other words, Somnium Space offers a digital facsimile of real life!
But a digital world, even one that looks real and feels immersive, can feel pretty low stakes if nothing hurts and can seem somewhat bland without the resource constraints that we take for granted in the physical world. To bring the Somnium Space universe one significant step closer to real life, Somnium Space is building its in world economy on Ethereum. Resources and objects, including land itself, will be verifiably scarce NFTs. Call it a tragedy of the human experience if you will, but it’s much easier for us to make sense of our place in a world of scarcity and a real ownership rather than one of perfect abundance. Like the way it’s not as much to play a game where you can walk through walls, it’s not as much fun to inhabit a world where everything is free.
OpenSea is proud to provide the infrastructure that powers Somnium’s secure, user-friendly, and persistent economy. OpenSea is the first and largest peer-to-peer marketplace for blockchain-based assets, which include collectibles, gaming items, and other assets backed by blockchain. Since our beta launch in December 2017, OpenSea has processed over 25,000 ETH worth of digital assets through our marketplace. We can’t wait to start seeing Somnium Space items in the mix.
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Stay tuned for more announcements leading up to Somnium Space’s Initial Land Offering in early October and join their Discord or follow them on Twitter for the latest updates!
CUBEs tokens launch on GEMINI Exchange, 10.000$ VR & Web Treasure Hunt!
Hello Somnium Citizen! We are delighted to share with you most exciting news we have been working on for some time! Get ready and lets dive into it! Somnium $CUBE token is now available on GEMINI Exchange.
From now on you can login to https://exchange.gemini.com/ and trade CUBE pair. Gemini is a digital currency exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell, and store digital assets. In June 2016 Gemini became the world’s first licensed ether exchange.
Virtual goods are a huge market in billions of dollars, but most of this revenue goes to the creators of the platforms and not the creators of the goods themselves.There are non official secondary markets where creators can earn some money, but those markets are not transparent and secure. We are solving this with BLOCKCHAIN Avatars. Somnium…
Since the very beginning of Somnium our vision was clear — to create a decentralized parallel Virtual Reality world for everyone to join and exist. Since 2018 and Somnium V1 we have done an amazing progress.
First things first: mark your calendars because Secondary Land Offering will be happening from the 📅 1st of November — 18th of December! 📅
7 weeks of epic auctions for premium PARCELs via OpenSea and amazing rewards! Moreover this time PARCELs will be available in 3 different currencies — Ethereum, Somnium CUBEs & DAI Stablecoin, so that everyone can choose their favorite payment methods!
From now on you can trade Somnium CUBEs on Uniswap. This step completes our list of platforms where we offer our utility VR currency, after starting at Coinpark, a traditional and reliable (partner of BiBox) crypto exchange, we soon followed on OpenSea, the biggest NFT platform, where we completed our offering to PARCELs and ITEMs. With Uniswap the circle is complete as this decentralized platform will give everyone the possibility to swap into CUBEs. This holistic approach makes CUBEs accessible for everyone.
Creators contest will take place from 3rd until 17th of August!We are happy to announce Somnium Space Creators Contest!
Recently we have been adding a lot of amazing features to our world Builder such as 360° portals, advanced web browser support, Visual Scripting, animated and transparent GIFs support, audio and video live-streams and much more!
All those features allow our community to make impressive creations inside Somnium VR world. And now it is time to let our best creators show what they are capable of!
Introducing CREATORS CONTEST! It will be running starting from today — 3rd of August until 17th of August. …
A What an incredible and exciting ride it was starting through 2017 with the first MVP and 2018 with our first Somnium Space 1.0 on Steam. In 2019 we completed our vision of a working economy with the integration of blockchain into our platform allowing users to truly own their in-game assets and trade them directly between each other or through amazing marketplace such as our great partner OpenSea! The partnership started with our Initial Land Offering (ILO) in October 2019…