Inspiration
With the spread of the internet and mobility, the digitalization needs of brands are increasing day by day. Most of the brands open their e-commerce platform and make sales on the internet. With the development of Metaverse over time, we think that there will be no brands left that do not open stores in environments like metaverse. Especially in the metaverse environment, where visual perception increases and product inspection opportunities are moved to a different dimension We believe that the pleasure of shopping will be different. The number of vr glasses is increasing day by day and people have started to spend more time in the metaverse. As a shopping experience in the future, we think that the products can be purchased by examining the products in much more detail in the 3D environment, and even an experience similar to the physical shopping experience can be given over time. Instead of buying a land in Metaverse, buying an empty shops in different sizes may be a more beneficial solution for companies. Moreover, in the following stages, each brand will be able to design the store itself with our store designer editor tool.
On this platform, the experience of logging into the system with our own digital twin avatars, trying on different clothes on our avatar and purchasing with EVMOS coin is offered.
In addition, we believe that cryptocurrencies will be used more widely in payments over time and crypto reward mechanisms will become widespread especially in internet shopping. All these are the factors that push us to do this project.
What it does
ShopyVerse is a platform where brands can buy or rent empty shops in the metaverse, display their products in 3D environment, open them for sale and sell with crypto money. You can enter the system with your avatar. You can try different clothes with your avatar and buy with EVMOS. Moreover the platform will be play&earn game platform. Every avatar will enter the games and earn metablok tokens.
How we built it
Barış Baran designed a city with Blender, two of our friends (Beytullah and Hayriye) made the developments on the Unity Framework side and then created a multiplayer environment with the Photon framework. Beytullah added virtual dressing functionality to our system. Hayriye also developed VR side and integrated to our system. Hasan developed nft marketplace contract and javascript function for web3.js side. Beytullah and Alper integrated web3 side by developing a unity bridge. Dr Alper is working on transferring real world objects to the metaverse.
Challenges we ran into
Optimization was a big challenge to overcome. WebGL is very unforgiving in this regard.
Character control and functionality problems in multiplayer.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud to build a multiplayer environment that also supports VR and WebGL interactions. We needed to be organized in order to create a better software architect. I think we managed it very well.
Optimization was a big challenge to overcome. We had to sacrifice a lot of the quality of the graphics. However, even after that, we believe we managed to create something that looks good.## What we learned
What's next for ShopyVerse
We are working on Nerf and special algorithms in order to transfer real world photos and objects to the metaverse.
We are working on store designer tool.
We will add p2e games and fitness center for vr users.
We have completed nft marketplace contract but we will build our web based nft marketplace frontend also.
We will develop plugin wallet for VR side.

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