Archiverse: How About Hosting Your Metaverse Party in a PYRAMID?

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Archiverse is one of the newest collections on Singular. (Edit: Mar 18 due to a misunderstanding of the new curation system. While it appeared they'd won the vote by a large margin, due to the low number of unique voters, they didn't pass the necessary requirements to become curated. My apologies)

Archiverse has a unique value proposition that, while not totally foreign, has interesting potential when applied with Metaverses on Dotsama.

While many projects are focused on pfps, games, art, and items, Archiverse is focused on becoming an Architectural company within the Metaverse. After all, if we’re going to be spending significant time in the Metaverse, don’t we need cool and fabulous places to be in?

Archiverse hopes to design fully immersive 3D buildings that come ready out-of-the-box with popular Metaverses so users can have a simple "plug and play" experience.

Every model will be fully 3D modeled and textured and given full rights of use within the future metaverses. When they say "Metaverse ready", they mean that things such as the number of polygons will be set to match the rules, and files that will be exported in the best format such as .obj, .glb, .stl, or otherwise according to the best practice of the Metaverses.

Essentially, on the user side, the owner would be able to download their NFT into a 3D file and simply drop it into the Metaverse without any difficulty.

The team is composed of MXS, an architect that worked for a famous international architecture firm in the Netherlands, and his brother, DamienMK, who is described as a "self-made man passionate about blockchain" with background in physiotherapy, running a webmarketing company, and being a real estate investor; they plan on hiring more help in the future.

Their first collection of Archiverse is a collection of Pyramids.

**When asked why they chose a pyramid to begin with, the team explained, **

"The pyramid is an archetype that we are big fans of. It's such a piece in terms of Architecture and history.

"We like the fact it also refers to an ancient civilization, some sort of pioneers and all the secrets which surrounds them. We wanted to make a big impact through the first volumes we presents and thought the pyramid was already a masterpiece of architecture.

"We had several talks regarding which type of architecture would be the starting point of Archiverse. The pyramid feels like the right volume: its scale, its beauty, and its symbolism are all matching the ambition of Archiverse."

Now, the team is very focused on creating the best user-experience, which means that their collection design was built off of this goal.

The reason the pyramids are not all 1/1s, as NFTs are generally known to be, is because of the potential scaling issues as integration into Metaverses grows. If there are too many unique pieces, the labor to update, adjust art and technology for each unique piece could quickly spiral out of control. They feel confident that with the current number of models, they can handle the workload.

"If we made each pyramid different, even with a few details, the problem is that it would be too difficult then to be able to make each of them metaverse-ready; the amount of work would be colossal. So we preferred this type of collection with non-unique copies, to be able to keep our promise afterwards. Though we are aware that if we had made each one unique, it would have simplified the process of selling and feeling of rarity among owners."

So what is the model distribution like?

Check out their charts here.

In the future, the future collection sizes and distribution may change, but for now, this is what an investor should expect. In addition to the pyramid, the team promises that the first collectors will be thanked with rewards and exclusive airdrops among other things such as bonus NFTs.

For those of you wondering about if the building is just something to look at, or if you can actually go in—the team is excited to report that they feel like the interior is part of architecture…which is their polite way of saying, "Duhhh! Of course!"

"When you design a building, you can split it within a few things like: overall volume (concept), facades, spaces (rooms), and flows (how you move within spaces and in-between)."

And how interactive will the interiors be?

Well, it depends.

"How interactive will the next metaverses be? We can't answer that yet but ideas are already in the pipelines!

"The building is being thought of as a living space, so the ambition is to be able to go inside and do things. We are thinking about creating an NFT gallery, hosting social events, venues, curated exhibitions, video game events, sport events, or private screenings. And--if you look carefully at the descriptions--there is an attribute named «secret rooms». The flexibility of this future secret room will be dictated according to the future metaverse rules, of course."

And what about the landscape?

"Landscape is also important and sets up how you experience architecture, however, we believe that the landscape is better addressed in another way, later, to focus on giving the best building experiences.

"In other words, a pyramid doesn't need a strong landscape design as it is a standing piece in itself. We want our collectors to be as free as possible when integrating their NFTs.

"Nevertheless, there are projects which play with the landscape and its curves for instance (reference: "Piscina das marés" by Alvaro Siza). Archiverse will respect certain "in-situ" landscapes if there are some special custom-made demands on land."

Near term, the team is finishing the legendary editions and they have plans to show the pyramids in a FPS view.

As for future collections beyond the pyramid, they are planning on having castles, museums, towers, and much more. They will stay in touch with the community’s wishes, as their ambition is to explore the boundaries of what is possible in the Metaverse.

They are confident that they can build almost any custom request as well—so perhaps everything is up to the limits of your own imagination.

And which Metaverses are they looking at? Well, Bitcountry, Skybreach, Darwinia, seem to be their starting points.

I asked them about the possibility of utility aside from aesthetics--such as building in the option to lease spaces, and they seemed intrigued by the idea and took it to the idea of building a stadium and leasing the space to big companies who wanted it for football matches, hockey, concerts, etc.

So, perhaps anything and everything really is possible?

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