At 9:30 p.m. on July 2, "Virtual Perception: Dabei Universe x Zhang Zhiwei Online Joint Exhibition & Auction" came to a successful conclusion. In this live broadcast, first-line collectors, artists, market experts, Bored Ape community representatives, and Asian Encryption Art Fund were invited. Pioneer metaverse explorers such as Vulcan DAO and WSB Bay Area community conducted a borderless conversation around the trend of encrypted art collections, discussing the collection value of NFT and the possibility of the marginal metaverse.
As everyone entered the Cryptovoxels online exhibition hall curated and built by BCA, Dabei Universe first talked about some understanding of the theme of this joint exhibition "virtual perception", especially the relationship between the Internet and perception. There are five senses in the real world, while the virtual space puts more emphasis on audiovisual perception, and then the two artists began to guide online.
Dabei Universe introduced the creation method of the series "Text Gene Project": "I read and studied materials in different disciplines for several years, collected words that did not appear in my cognition, and established a text library. I also studied from The representative works of all poets from the vernacular to the present analyze their grammar and collect their text structure... The text gene pool is the most important piece, and it affects everything that follows."
Evol⁵⁸-[Miwu Sr_ution³⁰] Dreamless Nanke Good dreams are hard to come by
Text Gene Project, Dabei Universe
Compared with Dabei's complex way of generating his works, Zhiwei's works are more classic and quiet. Zhang Zhiwei believes that the virtual space we will see ten years from now will not be composed of such mosaic blocks, "After all the hardware, infrastructure, and ecosystems are established, what we will see will be a world closer to our current real world." Or the world of the hyper-real world. What is the digital dust at this time, it is very likely that we moved from the real world."
SCP#57, Chiseling the Wall to Steal Light - Beijing Sunshine Collection Project, Zhang Zhiwei, 40°0'22.875" N 116°22'45.418" E 2020-06-03T16:06:28
"Transformation from a carbon-based era to a silicon-based era, towards a fully digital future"
Guo Cheng said that in this creation of Dabei, it seems that he has regained his gaze. In these images, he can see the body, the flowers, the bustling world, and the neon lights. These are the three thousand worlds in Buddhism. . Between the senses and reality, between text and images, some new experiences have indeed been found.
Evo40-[RAZZv_ution37] Consciousness is the only natural god
Text Gene Project, Dabei Universe
Teacher Cao Yin mentioned that the images of Dabei are generated based on the neural confrontation network. In fact, deep learning algorithms such as GPT3 can also be used. They are all open source now, and they all make a generative creation of text. The problem now is that the training time is relatively long, and training GPT requires a very high-configuration machine, a lot of time, and a large amount of data sets. These texts you enter, these data sets become genes in the algorithm generation. From Meme (meme) to Gene (gene), this is a very magical and interesting thing.
Entering the AMA borderless dialogue session, the host Guo Cheng asked the guests: What perception do we use in the virtual world?
Diana (public chain SCDO CMO): In the game, with a VR helmet, you can hold a wine bottle with your hand. From vision to touch, you will feel that you are really holding the wine bottle. The hand and the virtual world are linked by grip strength. Regardless of the five senses, your mood and other perception methods will also change in the virtual world, which will bring you a very immersive perception.
Vicky (Bondly Asia Director Bay Area WSB member): Metaverse is a spiritual call, leaving behind the existing physical body. It can re-value ideas and people. With the development of technology, when we can be fully immersed like in Westworld and matrix, your whole soul will be immersed in it.
Guo Cheng: How do you think that there is still a certain threshold for entering the Metaverse, and some people will be turned away?
Vicky: Many innovators have lowered the threshold of the entire industry and made UI/UX product design more civilian. The new generation is learning how to create things and interact with others in a virtual world from a young age through games such as Roblox. It would be easier for them to enter a world like the Metaverse.
Roblox game interface
Guo Cheng: What kind of perception do you have in the exploration experience of the Metaverse expedition team?
Teacher Cao Yin proposed the concept of metaverse survival experiment, and believed that metaverse is a digital other shore and an evolutionary product of the Internet. People search for purpose in aimless exploration activities, gradually find what they want to do, and establish their own new social relationships. This kind of spontaneous, taste-based, and non-predetermined behavior is what we expect.
Activities of the Metaverse Expedition Team
Guo Cheng: How to buy NFT, how to choose NFT
Yuanxun, a member of the WSB club in the Bay Area, first introduced the Bored Ape project, and analyzed from the perspective of investment that NFT has some very innovative ideas in it, because it not only gives the owner the token itself, but also the copyright of secondary creation. A considerable number of monkey players are NFT creators in Europe and the United States, and they will spontaneously create secondary creations based on the image of monkeys, triggering an out-of-the-box effect. And this is a decentralized process, people are motivated to promote this NFT.
At present, the transformation of trendy brands and street culture derivative products has produced an out-of-the-circle effect. The cohesion of the community will promote, create, build another brand and explore more uses for NFT. It's not just social media avatars. There are many, many avatar-level projects that repeat the monkey model, but monkey is the most innovative project, and its community consensus is also the largest.
Guo Cheng: What kind of works do you prefer in the field of schema for NFT images?
Yuanxun: Now many NFT avatars have borrowed the animal image of monkeys. The “zoo” state has appeared, and there will be some social media elements. In Europe and the United States, there will be some mean elements, and monkeys have mean elements in them. The image of human beings will have some concerns about skin color and race, so it would be better to use animals and other images created.
Another series of avatar-level NFTs launched by Bored Ape
Guo Cheng: Where are the NFTs of the collectors? Can you show us the following?
Diana: I started buying NFT in September last year, when I bought some NFT cards. Although the increase in the later period is not large, it can play a mining role. Looking forward to the possibility that there may be a separate wallet in the future, or a Gallery to store all your NFTs.
Cao Yin: I have almost less than 100 pieces, but there are many high-quality goods, and the selection is more cautious. I also recently bought a few NFTs to display NFTs, cyber virtual galleries. You can put your own NFT in this NFT. At the same time, I also co-founded a fund, Republic Realm, with Republic, which is specially used to buy and develop land in the metaverse.
Cyber Virtual Gallery
Guo Cheng: Have NFT collectors realized profits in terms of income?
Aria: Vulcan DAO is also trying to use different IPs in different fields to expand the concept of art or pan-art. Bring 50 collectors together and try to collect together. Through everyone's resources, see if the intrinsic value, use value, and even its premium of NFT can be made greater in the community and consensus. I think it is necessary to give the artwork itself some room to grow.
Guo Cheng: When we repeatedly emphasize these concepts such as the metaverse, it is actually difficult for the body to get rid of the metaverse as the future. When can we say goodbye to the body.
Zhiwei: It is a long process for us to fully enter the Metaverse. The CVs and sandboxes we see now are all pixelated and stylized small worlds. In the future, there will be a more realistic and motion-sensing world. The great significance of the Metaverse is that it has more than one metaverse. Will there be a metaverse with many voices, a metaverse with many texts for office, and a metaverse for games? We don't go there to dream, we go there to wake up.
