HTC opens the metaverse with Viverse Create, a no-code platform for building virtual worlds

ViverseHTC Corp.’s open computing platform for virtual worlds, today announced the release of a series of tools that give creators the opportunity to create and share immersive multiplayer worlds for any device, as part of the “Metaverse” without the need for any code.

The metaverse can be described as networked, 3D virtual spaces that use virtual, mixed and augmented reality to enable people to create and interact in shared virtual spaces to connect, work and play. It allowed Real-time collaboration where people use digital avatars to represent themselves and move freely between immersive experiences.

The new platform, called Viverse Create, provides a foundation for users to experience and create these worlds on VR headsets, mobile devices, or PCs and Macs over the web using a zero-install feature, all without the need for a high-end gaming or VR-capable machine. The means that anyone can enter and build a Viverse world using almost any device.

“AApplication-related our audience are broken into three pieces. There are the VTuber or live event area. Then we have the gamer area,” Andranik Aslanyan, Head of Growth at Viverse said SiliconANGLE in an interview. “And the last area is education. Since everything is accessible via the browser, It is much easier for a teacher if, for example, There is educational content on Here. They could immerse themselves in an experience and show it to their students without being distracted by the quite Process by which the IT department installs something on your computer.”

Aslanyan said Viverse had spoken to some educational creators on YouTube who created content for children. Many of the children in their audience already play games like Roblox, this is known for user-created virtual 3D spaces.

“Tthat would be second nature to him, and the fact that They could produce content for it and then lead their audience there,” added Aslanyan.

Users simply need to create a digital avatar to participate. either a webcam that produces a reasonably good image of your face, choose a cartoon avatar of themselves or import a 3D model of yourself. Out of There You can join any existing Viverse world or start creating one.

Users can build in Viverse Create in two ways. The first is a no-code building tool that allows users to log into a world and import virtual models, assets, and media files directly from their web browser or mobile device. The also offers direct integration with the Sketchfab Library of 3D and AR experiences, which contains millions of models for free. None of this requires a kind Experience in coding or modeling.

“Bbut also 3D models,” added Aslanyan, explaining that users with advanced skills could bring in virtual avatars or high-resolution 3D models with animation. “So GLB or VRM files can be importedand if you import a VRM, i.e. a skeleton mesh, Then You can also import animations to this character.”

The second way developers can create is by using a browser extension called PlayCanvasan advanced tool for creating games in the style of a game engine, which allows users highly fine-grained control to create immersive virtual interactive experiences. The Chrome extension allows direct control over every aspect of the 3D world, models, animations and unruliness including Coding and can be used with code and no-code capabilities. It also allows users to deploy directly to Viverse.

Once created, individual worlds can be published across the platform – open to everyone – and published unlisted so that only people with a link can join, or they can be set to private so that only the user connect the instance.

Aslanyan noted that users could create large-scale public and invitation-only experiences that could be host numerous users for live events such as concerts. The crowds could be divided into several instances of 30 to 40 avatars every, everyone listens to the same music. The host could be reflected In any case Implementation And “Streaming services” Music for the audience and could see the same chat.

Viverse Create launched short after HTC announced Polygon Streaming, a new technology from the company that reduces the bandwidth required to send 3D content from a virtual view to a client. Polygon Streaming used a mixture of Server-side processing and client-side rendering to reduce the amount of data needed to send 3D objects and the processing power needed to render virtual scenes. It can render only what can be “seen” by the user at the time, thereby reducing the overall amount of computation necessary.

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