It typically starts like this: You are at a party and someone asks you if you want to try it. You’re not sure. You’ve heard a lot about it and people say you feel awesome and in a totally different world, but you also remember the words of advice from your parents: Be careful! And…
Trading activity can be an interesting technical indicator for how Somnium Space is developing. It may provide insights into platform usage and popularity and can help to spot trends. Unlike internal measures such as membership counts, logon activity and Builder uploads, which are undoubtedly tracked by Somnium Space, trading activity can be analyzed using publicly…
Crypto Artist ‘Natural Warp’, resident of Belgium, has created a unique ‘double parcel’ gallery in Somnium Space. The grand opening – an exhibition named ‘Take me to the Moon’ – will be on June 5th. For details, go here. Natural Warp’s art is unique. Its psychedelic and visionary expression pulls you in and keeps you…
Is that really a thing? To make photographs (and even selfies) in virtual environments? It is. And it’s called Virtual Photography, the art of taking photos in video games (or ‘virtual/digital worlds’). It originally started with gamers taking screenshots of games and uploading those to various Internet forums. Over time people have perfected the craft and…
A few days ago, Somnium Space, the open, persistent VR world announced when the highly anticipated Secondary Land Offering (SLO) will take place. The SLO follows the Initial Land Offering (ILO), in October last year, and the 10-week Road to Secondary Land Offering (Road to SLO) campaign, which finished a few days ago on May…
Somnium Times has a great event calendar feature for everything that is happening in Somnium Space. You can find the calendar here. To make it easier for people to have their events listed – and keep the calendar as up to date as possible – we’ve introduced a feature that enables online submission. You can…
The tenth week of Somnium Space’s Road to Secondary Land Offering (or Road to SLO in short) finished on Sunday, May 24th, after 4 nail-biting days of Dutch-style auctioning of 35 parcels and 4 large estates. This week was the last of the 10 weeks Road to SLO campaign and Somnium Space turned it into…
It’s been that time again where your reporter goes wandering around the wonderful VR world of Somnium Space looking for interesting architecture, build designs and structures that stand out. My first choice is a very simple but exquisitely clean build just north of Somnium Waypoint. The build has a perfect balance of interior lighting for…
What a ride it has been, Somnium Space’s Road to Secondary Land Offering (Road to SLO) campaign. Ever since mid March,week after week, the VR land parcels Somnium put on auction on the NFT trading platform OpenSea flew off the shelves. Literally within days. Each time. It is not hard to understand why these NFT’s…
You may have already seen a video (like this or this or this) showing off the power of Somnium Space‘s brand new Visual Scripting. So how does it work? It’s still in Alpha and subject to change, but let’s explore what we have available. Movable Objects The basic building blocks of visual scripting are Movable…