Looking Glass Labs Ltd (LGL) said its flagship House of Kibaa (HoK) studio has set November 1, 2022, as the launch date for the next step in the staged Alpha release of its Pocket Dimension metaverse assets.
The Alpha Release will introduce holders to HoK’s overall metaverse experience, with the specific goals of testing simple features of each Pocket Dimension, exploring the environments and stress-testing multiplayer capabilities. HoK has been developing 11 ultra-realistic environments that include ten original Pocket Dimension environments and one Genesis Moon environment, all created using Unreal Engine 5.
“As the metaverse and NFTs continue to see rapid growth and adoption, it is important for HoK to make Pocket Dimension available to users as soon as possible. Early adopters who purchased Pocket Dimension are keen to begin building their virtual spaces and establishing their presence in the metaverse,” Dorian Banks, chief executive officer at LGL said in a statement.
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“I believe that collaborations with well-known music, sports and entertainment entities to come will be a catalyst for both the HoK metaverse as well as the broader metaverse ecosystem on a global scale,” he added
The Alpha Release plans to add further utility to each holder’s Web3 metaverse experience. HoK Genesis Members will also have access to their Genesis Moon environment.
The Alpha Release will give access to early versions of the following features:
- Gated holder access
- Multiplayer lobby options;
- Text chat capability;
- 2x Default avatar players;
- NPC hosts;
- In-game minigames;
- NFT interactions with image, video, and text; and
- Different architectures, for example, the HoK Lava Temple Gallery and Gutter Cat Gang Trap House
HoK will collect feedback from users in order to continue building additional features, with the goal of releasing full-featured Pocket Dimension to users in 2023 so they can begin building their own virtual worlds. The Pocket Dimension metaverse is a hyper-realistic digital world that is being built using the latest version of Unreal Engine in order to offer users a premium virtual experience.
Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, LGL is a Web3 platform specializing in non-fungible token (NFT) architecture, immersive metaverse environments, play-to-earn tokenization and virtual asset royalty streams.
HoK, its leading brand, designs and curates a next-generation metaverse for 3D assets, which allows functional art and collectibles to exist simultaneously across different NFT blockchain environments.
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