Bored Apes Owner Yuga Labs Launches 2nd Trip Otherside Metaverse Experience
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Bored Ape Yacht Club's parent company, Yuga Labs, today launched its Second Trip for its Otherside universe as a new "metaverse" experience.
The company launched the experiment with several thousand concurrent users, all interacting in real time, according to Herman Narula, CEO of Improbable, the project's technology partner. Yuga Labs is among the contenders attempting to create an experience in the Metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, as seen in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One< /em>.
The Second Trip builds on the first trip last summer, where Yuga Labs and Improbable were able to smash 4,500 people into the same 3D world in real time with 3D audio using the software of Unlikely, based in Cambridge, England, who has been experimenting with technology to build massive game worlds for years.
At the time, technology showed that players had full physical effects for their characters and could talk to each other in small groups using 3D audio or hear all players at once. I went on the second trip today and it was a similar experience, but apparently with a lot more people. Narula didn't say how many people attended today, but suffice to say it was a record number. Previously, the companies said the experience would accommodate 10,000 people.
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register here"We have a lot more capacity than last time and I think it could break the record," Narula said.
Yuga Labs invited holders of Otherdeed, or people who had purchased its Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), to the Bored Ape Yacht Club, which has been one of the sensations of the NFT craze for the past two years . The carriers of a dozen projects were able to copy their PFP images to the screen-like faces of Voyagers, the name of the space avatars used to navigate the landscape of the virtual world of Otherside.
"In terms of accessibility, they're definitely opening up a wider community," Narula said. "There are going to be 12 different companies and suppliers."
Yuga Labs has the resources to be a "metaverse" competitor. It raised $450 million in March 2022. And Yuga Labs initially sold 55,000 Otherdeed NFTs for virtual land ownership. It generated approximately $320 million in primary sales. Overall, Otherdeed NFTs generated secondary sales of over 500,000 ETH, or over $800 million. Each Otherdeed NFT is worth approximately $2,920.
The second trip experience
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Bored Ape Yacht Club's parent company, Yuga Labs, today launched its Second Trip for its Otherside universe as a new "metaverse" experience.
The company launched the experiment with several thousand concurrent users, all interacting in real time, according to Herman Narula, CEO of Improbable, the project's technology partner. Yuga Labs is among the contenders attempting to create an experience in the Metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, as seen in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One< /em>.
The Second Trip builds on the first trip last summer, where Yuga Labs and Improbable were able to smash 4,500 people into the same 3D world in real time with 3D audio using the software of Unlikely, based in Cambridge, England, who has been experimenting with technology to build massive game worlds for years.
At the time, technology showed that players had full physical effects for their characters and could talk to each other in small groups using 3D audio or hear all players at once. I went on the second trip today and it was a similar experience, but apparently with a lot more people. Narula didn't say how many people attended today, but suffice to say it was a record number. Previously, the companies said the experience would accommodate 10,000 people.
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register here"We have a lot more capacity than last time and I think it could break the record," Narula said.
Yuga Labs invited holders of Otherdeed, or people who had purchased its Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), to the Bored Ape Yacht Club, which has been one of the sensations of the NFT craze for the past two years . The carriers of a dozen projects were able to copy their PFP images to the screen-like faces of Voyagers, the name of the space avatars used to navigate the landscape of the virtual world of Otherside.
"In terms of accessibility, they're definitely opening up a wider community," Narula said. "There are going to be 12 different companies and suppliers."
Yuga Labs has the resources to be a "metaverse" competitor. It raised $450 million in March 2022. And Yuga Labs initially sold 55,000 Otherdeed NFTs for virtual land ownership. It generated approximately $320 million in primary sales. Overall, Otherdeed NFTs generated secondary sales of over 500,000 ETH, or over $800 million. Each Otherdeed NFT is worth approximately $2,920.
The second trip experience
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