Should DCL work with and adopt OMI standards for Vehicles & Seats?

by 0x8b257b97c0e07e527b073b6513ba8ea659279b61 (Morph)

Vehicles & Seating - two highly requested features of the open metaverse.

With smart items and emotes these realities are becoming closer - but while developers can build complex systems to enable these on their DCL land/wearables, it is important to ask:

How can Decentraland one day support these features as upgrades - natively and interoperably.

I believe it would be beneficial for either the DCL foundations developers, or DCL DAO protocol developers to join OMI (https://omigroup.org/) in discussions to understand the current space, working on what is needed in future specs or reviewing the viability of OMI standards for DCL implementations.

The current spec for extensions on these features (and others) can be found here: https://github.com/omigroup/gltf-extensions/tree/main/extensions/2.0

The OMI group itself has many talented Godot developers who are working on upgrading not only the OMI spec, but on communication with other metaverse developers throughout Web2 & Web3 to define and integrate varying implementations.

At the very least, I believe connecting our systems & Godot experts within the DAO or foundation with OMI (even for a brief technical chat) would be a great benefit to enable further interop of DCL as a metaverse engine & platform.

This grant is not intended to be actionable immediately, or to force the hands of future development, but to gather whether community sentiment is strong and if the idea is sound - I hope that the builders of DCLs engine and platform will also appreciate and find these standards valuable, while we the community can try find ways to incentivize the alignment of future metaverse development & interoperability via grants and creator support.

For further reading on OMI and the goals of these standards - here is an M3 breakdown: https://mirror.xyz/m3org.eth/00qAzFnCCmAHrqGAQiqObgAD2x6E8wxKtsTSFtorhf0

• Connect with OMI
• Build our own standards
• We don't need vehicles/seats standards
• Invalid question/options

This proposal is summarized due to technical limitations. To view it complete and vote on it, visit the DCL DAO Governance dApp