so last week was dominated by the news
that facebook was repositioning itself
as a metaverse company
meta and this guy
interact with each other that's what the
metaverse is all about wanted to tell us
all about the way to understand the
metaverse is to experience it yourself
you have to experience it
because it doesn't fully exist yet
that's what it exists building blocks
are here though
see
what mark is telling us here is that the
metaverse does not exist but the fact is
it does
and it's right here in a number of
different instances somnium
decentralized cryptovoxels and more are
being built so mark's version of the
metaverse the marketing version of the
metaverse
may not exist yet at least in the grand
spectacular version that he's talking
about but in metaverse 100 does in this
episode we're going to take a look at
decentralized decentralized the og of
metaverses there's so much going on
there and you may not think it's for you
you may think oh you know if mark says
the metaverse isn't here it's not here
but actually it's so straightforward to
get started in decentraland and
two things you need to bear in mind
firstly it's governed by a dao which
means that it's decentralized and its
governance is determined by its owners
owners of the token people who take part
in decentraland
two
well it's decentralized which means you
don't need permission to participate
let's dig in after a message from these
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mark's talking about here is virtual
reality style meta versus and the
version they've got here is beautiful
it's sumptuous he's obviously on a green
screen but he's in an environment that
is 3d then he looks at his watch and he
says oh yeah i've just got to find
something to wear and then he finds a
kind of creepy digital version of
himself and he dresses it appropriately
enough in a very nondescript outfit
because let's face it has no personality
at all then he's on a space station
talking to all his buddies in space and
they're playing poker and the whole
thing is entirely wholesome and not
cringe-worthy at all okay well let's
let's just park it there because this
this is being presented to us as
something that does not exist yet but if
you've played vr chat if you spend any
time with the oculus quest most of these
experiences actually do exist already so
what we're going to do today is have a
look at decentralized so the first thing
we do is go to the decentraland.org
website
where we're greeted with an experience
that looks entirely similar to what
we've just seen from mark and you have
some nice graphics you have wearables
decentraland is
it's a metaverse and you can buy land
there and then on that land you can
create experiences you can build
whatever you want and you can create
wearables for your characters within
that land to do whatever you want with
you can create games you can basically
do a bunch of stuff now
there are some caveats here as we shall
see which is that the quality
of what you can build there in terms of
its graphics
is probably not the best so they've
sacrificed usability for visuals which
is absolutely fine and fair enough but
the essential experience of it is not
that different to any video game you
might play the difference is here this
is a persistent world so if you leave
the world continues to do exactly what
it needs to do and it continues to exist
it's not like you just save your game
and then come back and everything is as
you would as you left it no things
change
new things can be built and the other
thing is that
all the land there and everything that's
been built is owned by somebody
it's not owned by the game it's owned by
somebody so
lots of entities have built you know
hqs and different museums and different
applications within decentraland but the
fact is it's been around for quite a
long time now and so it's quite a mature
ecosystem not that mature to be fair but
it is pretty mature so if you want to
get started in decentraland you just
click the get started button now i have
already been in and connected my wallet
so i'm going to connect play using my
wallet and in my wallet right now
i have some wearables because you get
airdrop wearables from time to time
they've been quite a few of them that
have come through
from various nft projects that i'm in
but if an nft project drops you wearable
then
you know this is what you can do with it
you can actually
believe it or not wear it imagine that
so here we are on the genesis plaza and
i've actually got the audio turned off
at the moment because it would just get
too annoying uh to handle that as on top
of the
tutorial at the same time because it's
really just a kind of base tutorial so
as you can see i'm moving around with my
mouse
to kind of orbit around my character
it's very much like you would do in a
video game and if i want to move i use
the w a
s
and d buttons
same as you would in any video game and
you can kind of look around and explore
and go and have a look at things if we
wanted to kind of jump to something
specific there are
some trending scenes here which are
pictured in this pillar here so if i
clicked on one and then i press the e
and f buttons i can go up and down oh
i'm in the middle of the cloud a little
bit clunky
there we go so i can click on here and
then cycle up and down
through the game using f and e so if i
wanted to go to this golf game i could
do that
if i wanted to go to dragon city i could
do that vegas plaza coco jones and the
temple of eternal bananas let's say i
wanted to actually go there
i could just click on it so let's get
out of there if i want to just move my
mouse around you click you hit escape
and that will get you out of navigation
mode or um
perambulation mode or whatever you want
to call it locomotion mode and then you
just click anywhere to go back in and
then one of the fun things about the
genesis plus is you've actually got this
kind of waterfall here so i can go up
here
and go around to the diving board and i
can actually jump off
and go all the way down
to
this
hole
press spacebar to jump and let's go
and down i go
i'm actually going to teleport
to a new place i'm now down in the bar
underneath
which is fun
so there's all sorts of different places
you can explore down here and it's
running super slow that's probably
because i'm recording at the same time
but here you go the helpful octopus
barman who is painting a picture at the
same time then getting his bob ross on
is actually uh giving me some
information i could go through a whole
kind of tutorial with him
to
uh to learn about how to interact with
people
in the space now if you want to get
around and find other places you hit m
to bring up the map and now we can kind
of
look around
all sorts of different places in
decentraland so there was one particular
area that i actually was kind of keen to
look at which was let's just back up
and see exactly where we are
and that is sotheby's
so this is the sotheby's gallery in
decentraland as you can see there's a
gold ape and a gold dog outside and
things get even weirder as you go inside
so once you're inside you don't actually
want to be running because at the moment
i'm running every time i press w and you
can hold shift
and then you'll walk a little slower
which is a bit easier for these
smaller buildings
but you can go upstairs past another ape
and then into this really weird weird
environment where it's all
apes
so i can interact with that
and this will give you
information to take you to the sotheby's
auction where you can actually go and
bid on the ape i believe
which is kind of funky i don't want to
be there and
let's see so there's a whole collection
of these which is sort of just an
exhibition space and you could go in
here and there's another weird
place here but this has all been built
and designed by people
and there are actual
metaverse architects who are building
these environments and you can go and
explore and explore and explore and
explore to your heart's content
so many nfts here it's almost
frightening
in a way
this whole collection
represented in virtual space allowing
you to go and
um
just explore and see the whole
collection now we got a kind of view of
my character here but what if i want to
change him so i'm going to click
press on escape to come out i'm going to
click on this boy here this gives me a
little bit of information about myself i
am super massive
but i can also bring out my backpack and
in my backpack i have my belongings
so here i can change
my entire
look and feel so this is where we're
going to interact with some
wearables that i might have been given
so here
you can see these ones in green
i can click on the uh information here
and it will tell me that this is an nft
on polygon and i believe
these ones are also on polygon yes so
these are my artifact alien carapace
uh shoes so i can actually click on
those
and then the character will wear them
and there you go the character is now
wearing them and similarly if i want to
put on a special top that i might have
so i've got a few of them here i've got
a board ape one
put that on and now i'm wearing a board
ape hoodie
what about
some strides what about these what are
these
so these are template cargo pants
template is a nft project what about
these what are these
sdbsf flight pants slumdog billionaire
slight pants so i could put those on
look like a bit of a douche there you go
right i'm ready to go raving look at
that
uh similarly if i wanted to change my
facial hair obviously why would i change
that look that's badass if i wanted to
change to that
it's like a real douche look at that
jesus has come again to walk amongst us
in a bald ape hoodie
then that is what i can do and now it
should
change and there i am a
completely new man
in a bald ape yacht club hoodie
and uh if you're in nft nyc at the
moment then wow this would be the look
for you
so let's uh hit the map again bring up
well let's see
where should we go so you can kind of
pull the map around take a look at where
you might want to go now i can see that
there's a bunch of people over here so
these red dots tell me there's people
there
uh i don't think my computer is going to
be able to handle it too much if i go to
where there are too many people
but
you can see there are all sorts of
different places where
um hey there we go there's an
nft.nyc mask ephemera collection so i
could go there right now and you can
just fast travel
by clicking on it and then clicking jump
in and now it will load up
the models the sounds and everything
else that go with that experience
and it's a little bit clunky as you can
see uh if you have a faster computer it
runs faster
but again this is not very different to
the experience that mark zuckerberg is
describing you know we can change our
character we can change the world we're
in he's talking about an ar and vr world
but we have that insomnium already and
it's pretty similar to what he's
describing so here we go uh here i am
and i apologize my computer is running
so slow at the moment uh it must be all
the awesome stuff that i'm talking about
but here we go so that was um probably
20 seconds for us to
load up this world and be able to move
around within it um but there we go this
is very pretty much as simple as that so
if you
feel like this is just one step too far
it honestly really is extremely simple
to get started in decentraland and to
start exploring around
on a good day my computer wouldn't be
anywhere near as slow as this and i'd be
able to walk around quite freely but um
i'm clearly having some issues with that
but that shouldn't trouble you on any
standard laptop or desktop pc you'll be
able to navigate this thing just fine
just don't do any obs or streaming at
the same time it might just slow it down
but that's it it's really as simple as
that and it's definitely worth just kind
of having a wander around and seeing
what you can find and seeing what other
people have built
because the metaverse in its more mature
form will be a lot more advanced than
this and be a lot more sophisticated
than this but
this really is how it starts this is the
beginning of it and you know this is
going to be the shape of things for the
next 20 30 years i genuinely believe
that
so if you're a metaverse naysayer then
okay i get it but if you're not and
you're excited to see what these worlds
can be
and what might be possible there and
what you might be able to contribute
then yeah this could be for you and i
often say that the metaverse is
it's a world
that rotates around you
and this is what i mean the world
literally does rotate around you this is
it's a universe where you are always at
the center
and that should be obvious if you've
played video games which most of us have
by now the universe always rotates
around your character that is
the whole kind of
mindset change that you have to get when
you talk about the metaverse it's not
let's go and visit the big city no it's
my world is immediately around me and it
goes where i go and it changes where i
go and you literally see that as you
walk towards parcels of land
the buildings
create themselves because then you know
they don't need to be always visible
they they're cached and they arrive when
you arrive and now i've killed my pc
but that's the basic idea so
you only see what you need to see in the
context in which you which you are and
the computer draws what you need to see
because it only shows you what's
immediately surrounding you
and that's good
it's a streamed streamlined experience
for you and for you alone that's what
the metaverse is about
and on that note we should leave it
there i hope that was a helpful kind of
first
baby steps into decentraland there is so
much more to discover here as we'll find
out in future episodes but this is where
it begins and if i look over here oh
look suddenly there's a bunch of cars
that's just the world telling me there's
so much more that i need to discover and
yes this is a giant rabbit hole you can
get lost in and that's entirely the
point discover at your own leisure i'll
see you on the next one drop us a
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that's what you're into
do all of those things but don't do them
in that order i'll see you on the next
one
goodbye
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