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The team at Everdome were taking a look back at the journey taken from concept to delivery of the different parts of our metaverse adventure.
One year ago, we had just released the first concept art of our Everdome Phoenix Spacecraft, the vessel which blasts our Evernauts off on the start of their epic metaverse interplanetary voyage.
When we were ideating and creating this spacecraft concept, we collaborated directly with Leszek Orzechowski, the conceptual space architect and his team at LunAres Research Station - to ensure that our design met the following criteria:
- That the design was built according to viable near future scientific principles, so it sat comfortably inside the framework of our hyper-realistic world.
- It could host large numbers of future metaverse pioneers.
- The design provided each Evernaut with the same level of experience, so we needed to find a way that each pioneer could view the outside of the rocket.
- The rocket would fit inside the narrative of our journey to Mars.
Similar to the process of real world construction, a group of various discipline experts was needed to take the concept of the Phoenix and make it work inside our experience.
We took the scientific framework in mind and employed our creative concept artists to create the look and feel of this spacecraft, before handing it over to our development team in order to change the concept into a metaverse 'reality'.
Our ‘builders’ - in our metaverse case - 3D artists - rolled up their sleeves and sculpted every single detail you can now experience inside and outside the spacecraft.
Lighting is essential to build ambience, the general feel of the environment and to mimic reality really well, so a suitable lighting atmosphere was needed as well.
Our environmental artist analyzed the space and lit it the way it looks now. Then our level designers next made sure that the user cannot accidently walk through walls, or topple out of the spacecraft into thin air. They also ensure that the user can easily navigate through the experience, making sure that the correct doors open as you move through the spacecraft interior, while also ensuring that you can enter the experience seamlessly.
First debuted in November with its live maiden launch, this spacecraft also plays a starring role in our upcoming Mars landing experience.
The Everdome Phoenix acts as a shuttle, taking you first from Earth to the Everdome Cycler and docking with this huge interplanetary vessel, before taking you from this Cycler to the Martian surface.
While its departure from Earth involves a traditional rocket launch, the EVR Phoenix will land on Mars in much the same manner as an aeroplane, after a series of complex braking maneuvers necessary to achieve deceleration in the thin atmosphere of Mars.
Forming a crucial part of our Mars landing experience, this EVR Phoenix rocket demonstrates how the Everdome combines the multidisciplinary talents of our scientists, storytellers, artists, designers and developers to create all the different aspects of our metaverse adventure - creating a truly immersive experience of discovery.
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