Together, ONE Sotheby’s International Realty and Voxel Architects, along with general contractor and NFT collector Gabe Sierra, are introducing the first ever ‘MetaReal’ mansion that includes a real-world home and a virtual counterpart in the metaverse. The virtual home will live within The Sandbox metaverse.
The buyer of the NFT asset will also acquire ownership rights of the physical home, set to be completed in Miami in Q4 of 2022. This is the first time something like this has been done.
— Forbes
The company picked the up-and-coming virtual design firm that has rapidly gained a reputation for its metaverse designs hosted by platforms like Decentraland. Under a licensing agreement, the real estate entity leases its name from the -year-old auction house, which itself has dabbled rather extensively in virtual architecture since the trend began to take hold of the art world.
The digital twin created by Voxel will serve as the basis for the physical home, which will be completed by the end of the year. The transaction will be completed using Etherium according to a firm-sponsored Medium post about the project.
“In the future, we think it will be commonplace to have a metaverse extension of your home,” virtual realtor Gabe Sierra explained. “As experiences become more and more immersive, the lines will continue to blend until reality and the metaverse are nearly indistinguishable. Over the next several years, you will see NFT technology used more and more to transact real world assets.”
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"the lines will continue to blend until reality and the metaverse are nearly indistinguishable"
Well I guess we'll see, won't we?
"virtual design firm" awh gawd....
One thing Neal Stephenson got right in that godawful The Fall novel was that even without the constraints of scarcity and gravity, people still created virtual environments that look remarkably ... pedestrian. You'd think that with all the freedom afforded to designers in the metaspace, designs would be wild but nope - they look very much like their real world counterparts.
As for what Voxel is doing - why not? Firms already have a high LOD 3D model that currently serves as the basis for producing 2D drawings. Why not monetize it?
Next up, the Virtual Pritzker Prize.
This 10.8% beer is not strong enough for me to loose my mind and take this seriously... Last time I commented on a silly NFT thread I got a PM from some poor sap looking to join my "NFT design office".
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