[REPORT] VR dao august

[frnvpr]

VR DAO August Report

Project Name: VR DAO

Project Status: [ in progress ]

Project Accounting: current account balance 979.90 NEAR*

• Several payouts pending, for example the ones for he creation of social media channels and the various bounties, which have just been published (good response from the community, but not enough time to obtain serious replies).

DAO vr-dao.sputnikdao.near

Updated Project Timeline:

After the May hackathon the VR DAO took awhile to find its footing. Last month 3 of Incubadora DAO’s council members became VR DAO council members to help revamp it. After a month of effort, 3 more council members were onboarded – a sound artist with strong ties to VR and 2 visual artists.

With the help of these members, we are implementing bounties, re-engaging with the community and preparing several projects for the upcoming weeks and months.

Highlights:

** Onboarded 3 new council members and had a meeting to explain the protocols involving the NEAR Forum, Sputnikdao and the relationship with the Creatives DAO. Those council members are:

• nearestchico.near
• tolga.near
• naes.near

** Supported for the Incubadora DAO POLIEDRO Artistic residency

https://gov.near.org/t/poliedro-vr-and-new-media-residency-program

[APPROVED] Incubadorapt DAO September Budget Overview

Project Name: IncubadoraPT IncubadoraPT DAO is a laboratory for experimentation in arts + technology. It is a platform to promote the collaboration between artists, academics, curators, creatives and cultural practitioners. Due to the increasing precarisation of the cultural sector and artistic labour, we intend to ideate emancipatory solutions and help reshape the traditional art ecosystem using blockchain and DeFi purposes. Project Status: [ in progress ] Project members: Frederico Parreir…

** Developed a challenge for the august hackathon

Live Challenges for near.org/metabuidl - Airtable

[HACKATHON CHALLENGE] Create VR spaces as NFTs

Hello, The VR DAO is partnering up with 3XR https://www.3xr.space/ to create a challenge for the upcoming Hackathon (27th of August- 11th of September; https://metabuidl.splashthat.com/ ) Here is the link for the Challenge: This topic can be used for those who have questions about this challenge. Happy Vr-ing.

** Reached out to those who got support during the may hackathon and those engaging with new projects in the past few weeks. One of the highlights is Vr slotCar racing meets rogue like !¿!¿ - #19 by kurtisAikins

** Established a permanent bounty to get feedback from the community.

https://gov.near.org/t/bounty-provide-feedback-about-the-vr-related-technologies-in-the-near-ecosystem-3n

** Published a bounty to support the community in creating an accessibility guide for VR, with several positive replies from artists with and without physical disabilities.

[BOUNTY] : Help create a Guide for Acessibility in VR

We propose the creation of a guide for best accessibility practices in VR. Being at the starting point in this new art form gives us the opportunity to build accommodations for as many people as we can and try, as much as possible, to make accessibility a core principle in the creation of VR environments. We should create an easy “go to” file for developers and artists with all the information needed to accommodate more people. For that, we should collect data already available on the topic, a…

** Created a bounty to reward articles who verse about color experience, with an extra incentive if the creators are willing to transform the article in a recorded or live (for a future workshop) video presentation.

[BOUNTY] : Articles about Colour Experience 20N

Earn 20 NEAR by writing an article of 1000 words about colour experience/perception. It could about your personal experience or from a more general research point of view. A summary of a book or a research paper is also a possibility here. These articles are being commissioned to develop a research archive that might potentially help artists/developers working with VR or Visual Arts in general. This bounty is for 10 articles and each article is subject to approval from the VR council. If you …

** One of the new council members made a proposal for the creation of Motion Landscapes in VR, which will be used to create several NFTs to sell on the VR DAO Mintbase store, plus implemented in 3XR and used to promote the VR DAO social media channels and the Near Protocol.

[APPROVED] Creation of Motion Landscapes in VR

Hi everyone. My name is Francisco Lourenço and I have been working as a digital artist for ten years now. During this time I worked in animation, motion graphics, briefly worked in VR and participated in exhibitions. My main focus as an artist has been the use of motion as a force to shape landscapes and narratives. In the past few years I’ve been creating digital environments in video format. In these videos I tried to find unique ways to be expressive through digital video by combining elemen…

** Created the VR DAO Mintbase store and minted the Poliedro Residency Icon, which was featured on the Mintbase instagram account.

VR Dao

Poliedro Residency icon

@mintbase_

** Revamped the forum guidelines and descriptions

[GUIDE] How to apply for funding from the Virtual Reality DAO

Step-by-Step: How to apply for funding from the Virtual Reality DAO This is the process for how a proposal should be submitted for funding from the VR DAO: Posts a “New Topic” in the NEAR forums (please use the “VR-DAO” tag), within the ”Creatives - Virtual Reality” category, outlining: What project(s) you are requesting funds for (this should be the title of the post) Your name, NEAR account, and the timeline you are requesting funding for (as the VR DAO follows the Creatives DAO proto…

[GUIDE] How to write Monthly-Reports for the VR DAO

Tell us how it all went! Between a payout proposal for a month’s worth of projects and activities to the VR-DAO and the next monthly proposal, we want to know how those initial projects went or are progressing. We therefore request that between one payout from the Virtual Reality DAO to the next, there is a brief reporting on the success of the project(s) ongoing or accomplished successfully in a reply to their original approved Forum post OR as its own topic with the “monthly-reports” tag. T…

** Revamped the TG channel and upped the engagement with the community there. At the moment, the TG channel has 39 members.

VR DAO

** Established 2 bounties for the creation and management of the VR DAO twitter and Instagram accounts, with a positive response from one of CUDO DAO members. Both channels were created and, during the month of September, several targets will be met.

[APPROVED] VR dao instagram channel management

Hello all, bounty prize: 30N per month The VR DAO is looking for someone to manage its instagram account [to be created]. The person doesn’t need to be an expert in virtual reality, but it helps if it has at least some knowledge and curiosity about the topic. We’re looking for someone with strong communication skills and adept of social media. The management of the channel includes at least 2 posts per week, highlighting mintbase, 3XR, projects being done by the community or VR relat…

[APPROVED] VR dao twitter channel management

Hello all, bounty prize: 30N per month The VR DAO is looking for someone to manage its twitter account [to be created]. The person doesn’t need to be an expert in virtual reality, but it helps if it has at least some knowledge and/or curiosity about the topic. We’re looking for someone with strong communication skills and adept of social media. The management of the channel includes at least 2 original posts/tweets per week, and at least 2 retweets. The management of this chann…

https://www.instagram.com/vr_dao/?hl=pt

https://twitter.com/dao_VR

** Several sputnikdao payout requests from new and old council members, plus payouts from those engaging in bounties.

Sputnik DAO

Learnings:

*** The council of an important DAO must be balanced, so several boxes are checked, like expertise, community engagement, administrative work, etc.

*** One of the most difficult tasks when engaging with the community is to filter the most relevant proposals. Everyone’s attention is needed.

Next Steps:

**** The VR DAO will continue to support the POLIEDRO Residency in the month of September.

**** For the month of September and October, the priority of the VR DAO will be to promote and support high quality VR Projects.

**** Will continue to look for more council members, ideally with a strong VR background and/or interest.

**** Will expand its scope and influence in the community, using the new instagram and twitter accounts to push for more members and general engagement.

Contacts and useful links:

Our TG channel is open to everyone who wants to engage with us and explore new VR related projects and ideas. Meet us on TG Telegram: Contact @vrdao

Everyone can also check what we are currently working on, just follow this link: vr-dao open doc - Google Docs ; for the moment, only council members can edit, but feel free to comment.

Find also Microchipgnus project 3XR on twitter https://twitter.com/threexr_ and discord Discord .

[frnvpr]

hello @chloe @mecsbecs, hope this helps you follow along and prepare for the meeting on the 2nd of sept

[mecsbecs]

Very informative and definitely proved helpful to get a snapshot as to where the VR DAO is now!

Feeling inspired about the possibility of what more devs working for the DAO would mean in terms of the creation of new VR Projects, and hope to see how maybe the Curators DAO or CODAME Guild (cc: @starpause) could serve as a collaborator for these endeavours.

Looking forward to seeing your September budget when it’s ready.

[frnvpr]

I would love to talk to @starpause about our plans, I’m sure this could help grow the ecosystem. Will do so swiftly!