Somnium VR Platform

I want to create a game that gives a fun utility for CUBEs, which hopefully could increase the value of the currency quite a bit. This ideally means enticing new players to buy CUBEs and use them to play the game. I think one of the biggest barriers to this is the lack of an easy and intuitive fast-travel system. You should be able to open your map and choose or search for a parcel or world and travel there instantly. Anything less than that can start to feel like a tedious waste of time. I understand walking around can be fun sometimes, but it isn't always fun and shouldn't be forced. If you wanted to make people think twice about fast travelling everywhere, you could implement credits. You could start with 100, so new players aren't burdened by the system. If people fast-travel a lot, they'd start to run out. Then you could have credits spawn randomly in the world, to encourage exploration. Or allow purchasing with CUBEs I guess. But the important part is that fast travel should always be an option, especially for new players.

In World developing, we need to do a lot of tests by uploading new world all the time because it is hard to predict the final behaviour of our features (few of us have already uploaded 50 to 100 world already !). This process is very long right now (Uploading with SDK, starting builder, refreshing world list, uploading, starting PC/VR, forcing parcel to reload, and going in). If we could accelerate the "Test Cycle" it would be very appreciated. One of the way i found is to inspire from other game platform. In the SDK we could have 2 choice: - Upload a new World - Update an existing World With an update feature, we could upload a world without even using the builder for saving time. Also it would be really appreciated if the old world get immediately unusable to prevent people to go in different version at the same time.

-Considering that we are limited with animation without armature deform. -Considering that we already have access to custom shader (that can be heavy on performance) -Considering that mesh deform is one of the most important part of the 3D art -Considering that there is multiple possibilities to reduce the cost of a mesh renderer on performance. -I would propose to whitelist skined mesh render component on the Build SDK.

Since very few person will be able to have eye tracking in the future, i would suggest to implement a more natural automatic eye movement. I think that eye movement can add a very nice impression of life in as Avatar that just look like doll sometime. (the bigger the eyes are, the more it look like a plastic face with no life) Proposition Example: I would suggest to use a technique similar to VR Chat. -The eye look in the same direction even if the head move, then every 2-3 second the direction is updated by the current head direction. -Of course if the head move to much, the eye are also updated. -I would add an on/off checkbox (off by default) in the sdk to not break actual avatars.

I see absolutely no purpose in the reset location cooldown timer... it's just simply frustrating. Also, there should be a way to "reset location" to the same location but not under water, because many many times the feature to put you back on land falling in the abyss does not work. Also I believe there should be an option for a land owner or renter, to be able to enter the game at one of their owned or rented parcels from a drop down list.

Add option to transform objects in the global scale. At the moment grouped objects combine their local scales and it's difficult to move and place them accurately.

Need the option to duplicate builds, then landowners can adapt the same structure slightly in each location. Not having this option means building from scratch in every location, which is delaying larger land holders progress. Would be great to have this considered.

We're building a gallery and have many video pieces with audio. Our artists want to wait to have shows until the videos have audio on the Web.

Ability to borrow items in the game from other players, by staking CUBE as collateral.

In addition of the 360 sphere, i would propose to make new 360 shapes for providing more possibilities -Since 360 images and video is an important part of somnium, it would be very interesting to be able to integrate them in parcel in a more natural way with more freedom -As my point of vue, the futur of VR art is advanced shader like 360, i think we should be a leader in this domain -I could imagine a wall, a floor or a roof made with 360 media -With a more simple shader than the sphere (without the white waves), the performance impact will be reduced in comparaison of the sphere -The new building block would have verry low polly _____________________________ Proposal #1 as example: -I propose to provide more "mesh" for the 360 media support -I would be verry important to be able to remove the white waves effect -Cubes, piramid, cylinder -plane, 2 plane in L shape, 3 plane in U shape, triangle, circle, etc _____________________________ Proposal #2 as example: -Instead of more 360 mesh, we could be able to apply "360 texture" to anny basic block with extra credit cost, -I would be verry important to be able to remove the white waves effect,