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Peter Ng: Designing Spatial. The Airbnb for NFTS | Will, Lee, & Andrew Learn Web3: #36

Episode Summary

Will, Lee, and Drew chat with Peter about how majoring in art prepared him to pivot through different mediums, 2D/3D NFT's, displaying NFT's in virtual art galleries that can be walked through, VR hardware, and what Peter's most excited about for in Web3 and VR.

Episode Notes

Peter Ng graduated from UCLA in Design Media Arts, helped shape the early mobile experience at Google, completely redesigned the mobile app for Uber, and has now landed at Spatial where he heads the design team.

Wired: Spatial: The Airbnb for NFTs

• The spatial virtual reality experience
  • Hardware
    • Oculus Rift - https://www.oculus.com/rift
    • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens
    • Magic Leap - https://www.magicleap.com/en-us
  • Platform being built on Unity
  • How they create a presence layer for people to collaborate and mingle
  • 3D environments to showcase art and portfolios
• How to think about making a unique 3D NFT and how it's related to sculpture
• Taking virtual hikes
• People are minting whole environments!
  • https://www.dezeen.com/2021/03/22/mars-house-krista-kim-nft-news
  • Sold on SuperRare: https://superrare.com
• Why it's important to display art in the right lighting, context, and setting. How Peter and spatial are working to create appealing digital architecture to show art in.
• How spatial partnered with OpenSea and SuperRare.
• How Peter transitioned from 3D artist to Mobile designer and how learning art as a baseline enabled him to jump mediums
• How hard it is to be a digital artist
• Peter's excitement about DAO's and De-centralization
  • https://ethereum.org/en/dao
  • Why DAO's creating ownerships automatically pushes people to share
  • Lack of approval requirement
  • "The world wide web becoming the world wide web again"
• The no code movement : https://medium.com/@McBain/build-a-no-code-ethereum-app-in-under-2-minutes-e1834d131685
• How do you actually view or interact with NFT's?
• Uploading, selling, and buying through Spatial
• Buying land via Decentral land - https://decentraland.org
• The easiest onboard to VR: Spatial + Oculus Quest 2
• NReal, one of the most inspiring new VR hardware developments
  • https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/10/nreal-light-ar-glasses-add-vr-lenses-launch-august-21-in-south-korea

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