Happy New Year everyone!

Here’s an update on what we’ve been up to.

First-- resources acquired!

• We raised a seed round led by an amazing capital partner and thought leader in the space. Will be a press release and announcement about that soon, but it’s enough for us to deliver the original vision and roadmap and get to the next level.

The team is growing!

• We have a third cofounder now who is leading operations and helping to lift a lot of the business side so we can focus on product and engineering.

• We’ve brought in the former art director from Webaverse who was largely responsible for most of the beautiful and engaging graphics and concepts.

• We’ve started working with some members of the community on DAO ops.

• We brought on most of the former Infinitia team to focus on scalable AI services, backend and generative AI gameplay features.

We’ve been working on a lot of cool stuff.

• Upstreet Chat, an immediate and fast paced realtime chat app set in Upstreet.

  • We’ve got some interesting features like realtime voice changing and WebXR / Apple Vision Pro integration. Smooths out a lot of the UX issues typically associated with “Metaverse” and avatar-based apps.

• The Street

  • We’re merging a ton of improvements and fixes back to our main deployment and tackling the most annoying bugs and community requested features over the coming months. Expect many updates soon!

We’ve partnered with the VIPE team to make our Genesis Heroes collection. The goal with the collection is to reward the community and start to hone the IP and brand of Upstreet. The characters are CC0 - do anything with them, wear them in VRChat, remix them, whatever. We want the community to use the storyline, characters and items as building blocks for their own stories. Upstreet is a cinematic universe we all build together.

Lastly, Webaverse. A lot has happened. In the end, we’re executing the original plan, in a slightly roundabout way.

We’re going to make an announcement soon with all of the specific details, but in short, we’ve partnered with Webaverse to make sure that the community gets what they want. If you want Upstreet, you’re welcome to join us.

There is still so much to do, but it is exciting work. The core team is working non-stop. 2024 is going to be our year.

Expect a roadmap for the year, announcement of investment, more details on the Webaverse partnership and some alpha invites for the new product in the next month or two!

Very excited to be on this journey with you!

We are still looking for a couple of extremely skilled game developers who have a passion for the web. Background in C++, Javasript, WASM and Node.js ecosystem, please! DM me at moon@upstreet.ai if you’d like to talk about it.

Happy New Year everyone!

Here’s an update on what we’ve been up to.

First-- resources acquired!

• We raised a seed round led by an amazing capital partner and thought leader in the space. Will be a press release and announcement about that soon, but it’s enough for us to deliver the original vision and roadmap and get to the next level.

The team is growing!

• We have a third cofounder now who is leading operations and helping to lift a lot of the business side so we can focus on product and engineering.

• We’ve brought in the former art director from Webaverse who was largely responsible for most of the beautiful and engaging graphics and concepts.

• We’ve started working with some members of the community on DAO ops.

• We brought on most of the former Infinitia team to focus on scalable AI services, backend and generative AI gameplay features.

We’ve been working on a lot of cool stuff.

• Upstreet Chat, an immediate and fast paced realtime chat app set in Upstreet.

  • We’ve got some interesting features like realtime voice changing and WebXR / Apple Vision Pro integration. Smooths out a lot of the UX issues typically associated with “Metaverse” and avatar-based apps.

• The Street

  • We’re merging a ton of improvements and fixes back to our main deployment and tackling the most annoying bugs and community requested features over the coming months. Expect many updates soon!

We’ve partnered with the VIPE team to make our Genesis Heroes collection. The goal with the collection is to reward the community and start to hone the IP and brand of Upstreet. The characters are CC0 - do anything with them, wear them in VRChat, remix them, whatever. We want the community to use the storyline, characters and items as building blocks for their own stories. Upstreet is a cinematic universe we all build together.

Lastly, Webaverse. A lot has happened. In the end, we’re executing the original plan, in a slightly roundabout way.

We’re going to make an announcement soon with all of the specific details, but in short, we’ve partnered with Webaverse to make sure that the community gets what they want. If you want Upstreet, you’re welcome to join us.

There is still so much to do, but it is exciting work. The core team is working non-stop. 2024 is going to be our year.

Expect a roadmap for the year, announcement of investment, more details on the Webaverse partnership and some alpha invites for the new product in the next month or two!

Very excited to be on this journey with you!

We are still looking for a couple of extremely skilled game developers who have a passion for the web. Background in C++, Javasript, WASM and Node.js ecosystem, please! DM me at moon@upstreet.ai if you’d like to talk about it.