Integration of Infrastructure for interoperable 3D wearables with Decentraland

by 0xfc4a1488ecce21489a965736e7c22b0844a9bde6 (JuliaInnovator#bde6)

Should the following Tier 6: up to $240,000 USD, 6 months vesting (1 month cliff) grant in the Content Creator category be approved?

Abstract

Gravity Layer is an infrastructure enabling a single, seamless, Internet-wide collection for digital self expression.

While Everyone is talking about interoperability, our project actually DO INTEROPERABILITY.

For the metaverse gamers we provide an opportunity to "upgrade" there NFTs to become wearable in any metaverse they wish.

For technical artists and game studios we provide a clients for creation of game ready assets.

For the metaverses we provide a library of wearables by our SDKs (unity and unreal engine).

For fashion brand we provide a platform for distributing their digital garments and increase the utility of NFTs without blurring the ownership, value and uniqueness of assets.

Grant size

240,000 USD

Beneficiary address

0xAc9e28e612309cc96AA8d13DDC4d4a99B4C65d38

Email address

yuliya.palamarch@gravitylayer.io

Description

Problem: Metaverse compatibility is often referred to as a development priority in the web 3 space, assuming that any in-game asset can be easily moved between platforms. Compatibility with digital fashion is the holy grail of this task. NFT technology promises interoperability, but all games/metaverses/apps have different avatars, graphic styles, and poly-counts for assets. There is no standard. So we also have multiple 3D files for each digital outfit. In order to support “interoperability” companies drop separate NFTs compatible with different metaverses. They are not linked. It is just creating a new copy of the design. None of them are compatible. They are not very useful for use outside of the platform on which they were created, and duplicating designs for portability to different worlds blurs the ownership, value and uniqueness of assets.

Solution: We’ve built an infrastructure that allows a single EVM-compatible asset to be worn not only in the game marketplace it was bought in, but in all worlds, everywhere it goes it converts to the appearance of the platform it’s in. We tap into the backend of metaverse marketplaces to make these assets tradable in-game. On the contrary of our competitors, who drop separate NFTs compatible for the different virtual worlds, our infrastructure does not create a duplicate of NFTs. Each 1 NFT works as an access pass to the compatible version of 3D asset for multiple metaverses/games/VR/AR/Zoom filters etc.

Decentraland have been the first who started to support linked wearable, but our project serves to extend this capability to many other worlds and provide single window for the users/brands/metaverses.

Specification

We have described our tech in the following article: https://medium.com/gravity-the-studio

Our demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNAj7YMWpSo\&t=1s Our website: https://gravitylayer.io Github: https://github.com/Gravity-Studio-Digital-Wear Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gravitylayer/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GravitySkins Discord: https://discord.gg/Ejh4jEPRDC Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gravitylayer/

Personnel

Our team for now consist of 10 full time team members and 2 ongoing freelancers. Our CEO and co-founder background is in ad agencies, her master’s research was in 3D fashion and digital identity. Our co-founder and CPO previously founded a B2B blockchain startup and has won 22 hackathons. Our COO managed David Beckham’s esports academy and was nominated 2017’s esports Woman of the Year. Our CTO is a PhD game developer with a background in AI startups.

Most of the team members are here (except new comers) : https://gravitylayer.io/team

Roadmap and milestones

1. Add support decentraland blockchain to the integration API (weeks 1)
2. Create upgrade platform (weeks 2) 
3. Develop and connect ERC1155 contract for mint NFT (weeks 1)
4. Realize the possibility of selling NFT through third-party marketplaces (smart contract + add to API and SDK) (weeks 2.5)
5. Create a personal fashion designer/brand account for mint NFT (weeks 1.5)
6. Implement NFT sales analytics for fashion designer account (weeks 1)
7. Whitelabel for primary NFT sales (shop) for fashion designers (weeks 1.5)

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