Going a little ‘Meta’ here in this entry. Also, I’m not a writer so please read this for what it is, a human tracking himself with a public diary of his metaverse and web 3 research. I’m not going to use proper punctuation, grammer, or, !spelling SUCCESS!Mirror.xyz/MatthewEastman.ethhttps://mirror.xyz/mattheweastman.eth I set up an ENS Domain name as Mirror.xyz/MatthewEastman.eth. Feel pretty cool for that, but the gas fees were certainly not cool. To waste a little more money/ETH (in the spi...

Going a little ‘Meta’ here in this entry. Also, I’m not a writer so please read this for what it is, a human tracking himself with a public diary of his metaverse and web 3 research. I’m not going to use proper punctuation, grammer, or, !spelling SUCCESS!Mirror.xyz/MatthewEastman.ethhttps://mirror.xyz/mattheweastman.eth I set up an ENS Domain name as Mirror.xyz/MatthewEastman.eth. Feel pretty cool for that, but the gas fees were certainly not cool. To waste a little more money/ETH (in the spi...

My relationship with Crypto and metaverse timeline.2009 - Housing MarketLiving in Florida as a teenager I didn’t grasp the implications of the 2009 crash but it seeded my distrust for the financial establishment. I also started getting hit with $12 bank fees from Bank of America around this time because I was a student and dint meet the min balance requirements. I knew in my gut something was very wrong about this.2014 - Pay attention in class young manFirst hear of bitcoin in a interactive d...

My relationship with Crypto and metaverse timeline.2009 - Housing MarketLiving in Florida as a teenager I didn’t grasp the implications of the 2009 crash but it seeded my distrust for the financial establishment. I also started getting hit with $12 bank fees from Bank of America around this time because I was a student and dint meet the min balance requirements. I knew in my gut something was very wrong about this.2014 - Pay attention in class young manFirst hear of bitcoin in a interactive d...

What better way to learn a tool than to just dive in… and well sink or swim! for this exercise, I decided to remake my 2D logo into a metaverse 3D logo (Logo is featured in another entry).In terms of swimming or sinking, I think I kind of floated for a bit, the lifeguard had to save me, and then I figured out how to doggy paddle by the end of 2 hours of tutorials (aka the shallow end). My media production and UX design background came in handy here as a lot of the tools/icons are similar to A...

What better way to learn a tool than to just dive in… and well sink or swim! for this exercise, I decided to remake my 2D logo into a metaverse 3D logo (Logo is featured in another entry).In terms of swimming or sinking, I think I kind of floated for a bit, the lifeguard had to save me, and then I figured out how to doggy paddle by the end of 2 hours of tutorials (aka the shallow end). My media production and UX design background came in handy here as a lot of the tools/icons are similar to A...

The goal is to learn and understand design’s place in the metaverse and design a few things.I will update this entry as I go and learn more about these tools.What does my Meta Design Tool stack look like in 2022?I spent some time playing with the design tools ShapesXR, Tools within Horizon, and Gravity. There are plenty of other industry-specific tools for things like architecture but for now, I’m going to focus on what I think are the broad overarching tools that will persist in the medium-t...

The goal is to learn and understand design’s place in the metaverse and design a few things.I will update this entry as I go and learn more about these tools.What does my Meta Design Tool stack look like in 2022?I spent some time playing with the design tools ShapesXR, Tools within Horizon, and Gravity. There are plenty of other industry-specific tools for things like architecture but for now, I’m going to focus on what I think are the broad overarching tools that will persist in the medium-t...

I will be using this Mirror account to track my Blockchain research and metaverse learnings! Let’s see where this goes.

I will be using this Mirror account to track my Blockchain research and metaverse learnings! Let’s see where this goes.

Like many people, I bought an Oculus shortly after Facebook made their ‘Meta’ name change announcement. I took this announcement as the horn of a train heading west and the conductor yelling “All aboard!!” Granted we have no idea where this train is headed and perhaps it’s not even a train, maybe it’s more of a rocketship or a merry-go-round. Anyway.. I’d researched VR headsets in the past, mostly when Facebook bought oculus in 2014, and I used several over the years like google cardboard, th...

Like many people, I bought an Oculus shortly after Facebook made their ‘Meta’ name change announcement. I took this announcement as the horn of a train heading west and the conductor yelling “All aboard!!” Granted we have no idea where this train is headed and perhaps it’s not even a train, maybe it’s more of a rocketship or a merry-go-round. Anyway.. I’d researched VR headsets in the past, mostly when Facebook bought oculus in 2014, and I used several over the years like google cardboard, th...

I figured a good way to dive into meta design and one of the tools (ShapesXR) would be to redesign my logo for the metaverse medium.This is my original 2D LogoIteration # 1 is a bit abstract and you can see right angles were not inherently easy, even with the snapping tool.See what I mean..Iteration #2 started to line up better and I used this open 3d white box to help frame the logo.I made the logo so it looks the same from both sides.Iteration #3 and (probably the final) Added the Triangle ...

I figured a good way to dive into meta design and one of the tools (ShapesXR) would be to redesign my logo for the metaverse medium.This is my original 2D LogoIteration # 1 is a bit abstract and you can see right angles were not inherently easy, even with the snapping tool.See what I mean..Iteration #2 started to line up better and I used this open 3d white box to help frame the logo.I made the logo so it looks the same from both sides.Iteration #3 and (probably the final) Added the Triangle ...