Art&NFT | Devpost

VR NFT exhibition. Art galleries will be able to create VR exhibitions with no code skills

Inspiration

Problem that art galleries are having:

Art galleries dont have the expertise, the know-how or the technology to run an NFT exhibition or to help their artist to create NFTs. NFT is a buzz word and it's getting a lot of attention. Art galleries can't sell NFTs in their websites / galleries Art Galleries are not familiar with NFT and the Blockchain Artist are are not familiar with NFT and the Blockchain Art exhibitions are not targeting the online audience. VR / Metaverse Not everyone has access to art. It's mainly for rich people or people who can travel to the museums. Art galleries want to target Gen Z. Art galleries struggle to compete with new forms of entertainment, especially online entertainment Art galleries preserve authenticity/originality of every piece, before it was not possible in the internet New artists are not interested in being represented in physical art galleries, they are successfully representing themselves within web

Problem that artists are having: Lack of originality in the internet before -> everything could be copied and used without authors knowledge Tremendous competition in web No authenticity of showing your results on platforms that everyone else are using Hard to monetize the work you publish online (even patreon is not an incentive) People do not want to just support artists, they want to have something in exchange

Art galleries:

Do NFT exhibitions in their physical gallery Do NFT exhibitions in the virtual world. Have an NFT marketplace in their website or maybe in our website at the beginning.

What it does

A very user-friendly platform that will allow artists to mint their digital art on the ETH network and store it on the IFPS or other solutions. They can add utility to the NFT like access to private content or access to VR events. Once the NFT is stored we should be able to showcase it on a Marketplace and then showcase it on a frame/virtual world (during the NFT exhibition).

How we built it

Front end: Vue, Django Back end / API: Python, Django, AWS, PostgreSQL, WebGL, Circle API Minting: IPFS, NFT Storage, ABI Metamask, Ether.js VR: three.js https://github.com/arthology-io

Challenges we ran into

Smart Contracts!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Registration of different type of users (Artists . Art Gallery) Creation of digital artwork Minting NFT on the testnet + IFPS NFT storage Simple VR environment to showcase NFTs Credit Card Payment using Circle API (not fully working