KappaSigmaMu updates for Q1 & Q2 2023

Let's recap what happened last year.

We had a proposal called Happiness is made of metal, the first addressing our marketing and comms outreach strategy and development milestone, which consisted of a partnership between KappaSigmaMu and Gilberto Gil. You can learn more about it in this post.

After the delivery of this proposal, another one was approved addressing the comms milestone. This one was two-fold, one part dedicated to extend the partnership with Gilberto Gil, the other part dedicated to sponsor an innovation festival. Let's dig into the deliverables!

Extension of the partnership with Gilberto Gil

The extension consisted of using the assets generated during the Happiness is made of metal project to create immersive experiences, such as:

• An augmented reality filter for Instagram. See my tweet for a sneak peek and a link to interact with it.
• An 3D-printed bust of Gilberto Gil. The idea behind this was to make the experience acessible to people with visual impairment. Check out the final product and the process here. The bust was displayed at the Digital Art Biennale for 2 months and later gifted to Gilberto Gil himself, which now decorates his living room along his golden record and a poster of when he played with Miles Davis.

• An immersive virtual reality experience made with Unity. This experience was exclusive to in-person participants of the events. Gil even visited the venue and took the experience himself, sharing an emotional testimony with us. We are discussing with his team the possibility to making the experience available to everyone.

Next Steps

We also discussed the possibility of creating an immersive music video of Futurível containing easter eggs of Kusama and KappaSigmaMu. This would be the natural next and final phase of the project.

NFT Distribution

After clearing all legal concerns, we were finally able to distribute the NFT to everyone in the society. If you were an active member at his birthday last year (June 26th) through the day of the distribution (March 22nd), check Your Space on singular.app, you should have the NFT!

Innovation Festival

Like mentioned at the beginning, we also sponsored an innovation festival in Brazil.

• I hosted a panel talking about the metaverse and immersive experiences. You can see the recording here.
• And gave a talk about radical innovation in the Web3. The recording is here.

(Activate subtitles if needed, as both recordings are in Portuguese)

The EXPECT CHAOS panel for moving pictures

Society V2

The code for Society V2 was finally merged to the main branch of Substrate repository! We are now a runtime upgrade away from our next iteration.

Website

After almost a year of Gilberto Gil decorating our homepage, the canary is back! We created a historical page for those who miss Gil, though: https://ksmsociety.io/gilbertogil

See you soon!