‘Dream Channel AI’ — Laying the Foundations for The Metaverse
Dream Channel AI is a multi platform engine that rewards users for building the Metaverse in the attention token $AIDreams. The ‘seed’ for Dream Channel is a core narrative — a science fiction story about gangsters who buy and sell dreams on the black market. The story is more like an opus that provides premise and vision for how the Metaverse could be structured and grow coherently. The story takes place in 25 floating story worlds each one a different chapter and each one run by a competing ‘tribe’ with its own governance and dream stars ranked by an attention algorithm. The cities are made up of 512 limited ‘spaces’, each one acting as portal to a greater connected Metaverse. The connected Dream Channel worlds act as an Atlas to the Metaverse, connected by a wormhole transport system where users are incentivised to add cities, worlds, content, avatars, art and other media through link tokens, forming clusters around key words. This elaborate yet carefully constructed story world is now the focus of a Dream Channel ‘Mint’, allowing audiences to join, own a stake and even become famous inside a story that could be the ‘big bang’ that the Metaverse needs in order to expand in a coherent and incentivised manner.
What is AIDreams?
AIDreams is an blockchain token or unit of exchange between advertisers, content owners and consumers calculated based on actual consumption of Metaverse assets (AR, VR content &Immersive worlds) and the token required to utilise its unique Metaverse Payment System. AIDreams is required to access the Dream Channel story world.
Gaze Coin white paper >>https://www.gazecoin.io/white-paper
Dream Channel Mint
Written in 2010 by Founder Jonny Peters, the Dream Channel’s core narrative is a story about gangsters who buy and sell dreams on the black market, and is also a vision for how the Metaverse could be structured and grow coherently . The story follows lucid dreamer ‘Lucy’ — AKA Riot Kitten — who wakes up one morning to discover her lucid dream — a dream about a Battle Royale Dream Game — has been stolen and is trending in Lucydia — a lucid dream world run by gangsters. When rival lucid dreamers attempt to take her out in her dreams , Lucy realises she must access the dream, become a contestant in her own game show and win her dream world back. In the process Lucy invites her rival dream tribes to unite, vote for her using ‘AIDreams’ and own the dream together — creating a dream ‘Atlas’ that can expand infinitely through wormholes sprouting from dream spaces — The Dream Channel.
The story is played out in 25 connected story worlds — one for each chapter — where audiences swallow a neural implant called ‘AIDreams’ to access the story. The story features a Dream Metaverse ‘Atlas’ that rewards users in ‘Gaze’ for adding dream cities, worlds, content, tokens, avatars, art, movies, media, virtual real estate etc , linked through a wormhole transport system. It also generates a persistent ‘Hologram’ dream avatar character with multiple personalities that fights for AIDreams while you are asleep!
The Dream Channel mint allows investors to purchase ‘deeds of ownership’ in the 25 connected Dream Channel worlds, and the Dream Channel digital series . Each world is divided into a series of connected dream ‘spaces’ and can be accessed in AR, VR and web GL , spaces that are already fully functional. These are the founding ‘genesis’ assets of the story world and potentially the seed for a structured and incentivised blockchain driven Metaverse. Episode 1 & 2 of the series has already been completed, including supporting cinematic VR episodes. These are divided into film ‘frames’ , each one representing a vote and royalty >>
The immersive Dream Channel worlds are where all the characters in the story live, residing in their tribe zones.
Dream Channel List of Features
Dream Channel Metaverse engine has the following features:
- Dream Channel is made up of 25 connected cities — floating in the Metaverse that act as portals to a greater Metaverse.
- Each city is run by a genre tribes with its roots in a defined sub culture — eg surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, hip hop, rock, pop, heavy metal, crypto art, travel, dating, fashion — and acts as a portal to its greater community through a connected wormhole transport system — tollways to the connected Metaverse
- Cities and their connected wormholes are stored in an umbrella Metaverse search engine called The Bridge — a Metaverse Atlas that directs traffic. The Bridge incentivises users in AIDreams to link NFT media, words etc. It also allows anyone to create a ‘gaze’ / attention driven ad campaign across NFT collections, media and connected billboards.
- Each city has a limited number of 512 ‘spaces’ in the form of fully functional apartments with back doors to any other world you choose to send traffic to.
- Spaces allow users to Mint media, add payments and rewards for consumption of media, place media on walls, change wall papers, and direct traffic to other Metaverse locations.
- The Wormhole Transport System allow for media to be shared across the Metaverse and tracked earning the creator a % based on consumption of that media no matter where it may go.
- Apartments have a referral system where owners can offer those who send them traffic a % of conversions. This allows those who have traffic to monetise it by sending it to the locations where users are most likely to spend money
- Back door linking from spaces can includes direct links to virtual real estate in other worlds— The Sandbox, Decentraland etc
- ‘Token linking’ allows users to add their own content to a content ‘cluster’ (search term) — allowing them to be found through search.
- When a wormhole is created, users blast a wormhole from their space through an entry and exit point in planet earth, and then out to the Metaverse destination. This creates AR doorways into the Metaverse that are discoverable.
- Each of the 25 genesis cities play host to a different chapter of the story. This takes the form of a Battle Royale ‘play to earn game’ that takes place in and around the streets. In each episode the top 32 contestants fight it out until there is one winner — claiming the role as protagonist in the next episode of the story. Audiences purchase the lucid dreaming elixir ‘AIDreams ’ to access the story and back their favourites, winning more Gaze each time their characters win, claiming an ownership stake in the series itself.
- Each city has its own stars living in the streets around a central Dream TV Channel — resembling a massive drive in cinema in the middle of town.. Here content is curated by its ‘tribe’
Details of the core narrative and Battle Royale audition format is outlined in detail in a separate post here >
- All users who join Dream Channel generate a persistent Web 3.0 Metaverse profile in the form of an AI Generative Avatar that can be shared on mobiles globally using AR . Profiles are divided into 8 alter ego ‘variants’ — whose mission is to learn the personality traits of its creator. Avatars face off with other avatars for AIDreams in a series of different combat modes where they require a budget to acquire move combinations from training at the tribe Dojo. Avatars report back every morning to owners with win loss ratios , gaze coin winnings. All Avatars activity is broadcast on Dream Channel TV.
- Wormholes can be lined with content providing content owners with gaze tokens for the amount of time people spend in a wormhole moving from one location to the next. Wormholes have an entire rules based system outlined in a smart contract. and can be combined to form super highways, and / or be closed down if they are inactive.
- Dream Channel also has a social tokens that individuals can sell as VIP tokens to access premium content or worlds .
Genesis Asset Sale & DAO
The Dream Channel DAO will be created by the sale of the Dream Channel genesis assets. Assets give owners DAO tokens which they can use to vote on direction of the Dream Channel Universe.
The Assets
The Dream Channel genesis assets are made up of 25 tribe / floating cities, each with 512 ‘spaces’, a film fractionalised into film ‘frames’ and 12,800 story characters. These assets provide owners with a pro rata royalty allowing them to share in the profits, and DAO token
(i) Frame Sale & Mint
- 42 minutes
- = 1050 frames
(ii) City ‘spaces’ Sale & Mint
- 25 story sectors
- 512 apartment spaces in each
= 12,800 lots
The Sale
(i) & (ii) will be sold at the same time. Buyers purchase AIDreams, and then burn this to acquire either NFT Frames / or NFT ‘spaces. They also receive a royalty token and a DAO voting token with each asset.
(iii) Story Character Sale & Mint
Story character mint will be carried out at a later stage. The story characaters are outlined in full in the following post >
Dream Channels Tribes / City Sectors
Dream Channel is divided into the following genesis sectors :
Each one is run by a genre tribe and is divided into 512 apartment spaces
Governance Structure
(i) Dream Channel DAO
The governance of DreamChannel is determined by the owners of the Dream Channel film and its story world made up of 25 ‘tribe’ floating cities , each with 512 spaces available in each.
The DreamChannel film is made up of two ‘genesis’ episodes (i) Lucydia & (ii) Dream Channel XR. The films are fractionalised into ‘film frames’, with each one serving as a unit of ownership. The ‘spaces’ (apartments) available in each genesis world, also represent units of ownerership. By purchasing a frame or a space buyers receive DreamChannel DAO tokens, representing votes that govern the direction of the Dream Channel Universe.
Each city holds proportional governance over the central Dream Channel DAO and receives proportional revenue opportunities. The caveat in the DAO lies in its constitution- which specifies that the Dream Channel story and its core premise must prevail. Collectively the cities must manage the Dream Channel story ‘universe’ together and ensure that it progresses according to this constitution.
Each owners of ‘spaces’ within each city has the ability to add worlds, wormholes and any other add on to build out their own Metaverse world, which may have its own DAO! This is totally up to the space portal owner
Dream Channel DAO — DAO Structure is a Narrative Story Unto Itself
The core narrative that provides the channels and their connecting cities a reason for existence and a social construct for its DAO — its Decentralised Autonomous Organisation that allows residents to make key decisions for the platform as well as earn rewards from its success. The narrative provides the platform with its token structure and an economy that revolves around the value of ‘gaze’ — the lucid dreaming elixir NFT required by residents to access a parallel story-verse where they can be part of the key decisions, elections and even a Battle Royale where the King / Queen of Dream Channel is elected. This narrative provides a foundation for the 25 connected Dream Channel worlds — each one run by a different ‘lucid dreaming’ tribe — and participation in a Meta narrative ‘premise’ created by the first Queen of Dream Channel fostering an endless expansion of our Metaverse alter egos — a premise that all residents are bound to uphold .. and fight for.
(iii) Dream Channel Social Structure
Dream Channel also presents a social structure where individuals are ranked by attention and can have their own VIP channels with access via their own social tokens .
Avatars are free to roam the decentalised Metaverse and do so with an embedded gaze attention algorithm . As such advertisers can sponsor residents but in a manner where they only pay for actual engagement. Ranked by attention, each tribes stars live in apartments spaces in the streets surrounding a tribe themed Dream TV Channel — which it also curates.
Voting & Revenue Distribution
Dream Channel is controlled 55% by the DreamChannel DAO and 45% by the Lucydia Corporation (The Dream Channel Management Company) , Revenues are distributed 60% to the DAO and 40% to the Lucydia Corporation
Freemium Business Model
Dream Channels founding Metaverse structure includes channels for action sports, fashion, hip hop, rock, pop, heavy metal, virtual dating, sports collections, NFT Movies and even a ‘Cypherpunk’ Channel — featuring influencers of the new decentralised believer generation . The channels use a mix of smart contracts, an avatar ‘variant’ generator engine combined with VR, AR and immersive worlds to create a series of specific unique channel templates. The channels link to the Dream Channel search engine that presents linear content in key word clusters where each one provides wormhole links to immersive worlds deep in the Metaverse. The business model across all channels is the same with spaces rewarded for engagement in the attention token Gaze Coin (or a Gaze Coin derivative) , which they can then use to trade on the market OR use to bid on NFT’s.
How Do I Participate ?
To participate you don’t have to purchase one of the limited ‘spaces’ You can simply mint a floating ‘space’ and connect this to the main space clusters by link tokens. You can also simply become a ‘character’ in the Meta Story, using a companion mobile app by generating your hologram alter ego profile. This involves generating an alter ego Metaverse profile — consisting of 8 alter ego ‘holograms’ — and joining one of the 24 tribes. Holograms are then equipped to fight and trade to earn more Gaze for their creator. Ultimately Holograms seek fame and fortune inside the Metaverse and fight it out to become the King / Queen of Dream Channel.
Each tribe curates and maintains their own ‘tribe’ Metaverse movie channel — The catch is that all of the characters that appear on a tribe channel must be minted / collectible hologram characters. These can be minted in reverse — ie the movie has been made already and must mint characters to appear on the channel, and ./ or movies can also source cast from existing hologram characters) The latter is the model used by the Dream Channel series , allowing players to vote on cast from hologram characters >>
Marketing ARG (Alternate Reality Game)
Dream Channel will promote itself as an ARG — an alternate reality game that invites people to take part in the Battle Royale drama that is taking place right now in the city of Lucydia.
The NFT Movie Format
There are 32 dream characters fighting it out to own Lucy’s dream. Audiences purchase the Lucid Dreaming Elixir Gaze (an NFT) to access the game, they then purchase dream ‘tokens’ from the characters they want to see win. Each time their character wins their dream token balance doubles. After the final battle participants split ownership of the episode according to their pro rata stake of dream coins.
Blurring the lines between reality and fiction and ARG pretends that the story is real, luring audiences into the story via a series of cryptic message and obscure websites where the story begins to roll out. ARG’s are synonomous with ‘Transmedia’ formats — an interactive narrative that moves forward on more than three platforms at the same time in the same story world . As such the story begins in real time and rolls out simultaneously across VR, AR, web, web GL and film.
The structure of Dream Channel is key . Dream Channel is a multi channel NFT entertainment network made up of ‘spaces’ that come together to form Channel clusters while simultaneously being located in real world locations providing AR doorways into the Channel. Stepping into a doorway takes you into the themed ‘space’ of user — filled with their favourite content on walls. You then find yourself stepping out and into a city themed by whoever’s, city, dream or story they choose to be incentivised to connect you to, including any virtual real estate or world the owner may own. Dream Channel defines your Metaverse profile as not one person but a collection of alter ego personalities learning from your real world personality. ‘Stepping out’ requires space owners to create their ‘seed’ persistent Metaverse profile in the form of a collectible hologram avatar NFT ‘alter ego’ that can be traded and shared on mobiles in AR. The Metaverse ‘concept’ has a core narrative that gives the initial cluster formations a social construct, story and interactive narrative to form around — managed by a DAO. Access to Dream Channel requires the lucid dreaming elixir ‘Gaze’ that allows you to look into other people’s dreams. Space owners burn Gaze based on actual consumption of media and immersion, and must earn more to remain engaged.
Space owners can earn gaze in a number of ways. Dream Channel has a web 3.0 Metaverse Search engine that aggregates content rewarding users in it’s token ‘gaze for adding NFT art, media, movies, and worlds to key words using link tokens. The engine allows anyone to place ads on any content, by embedding it with an ad token, splitting revenues with content owners.
Dream Channel’s core narrative is a story that takes place in 25 themed worlds each one a chapter. Each world is managed by a ‘tribe’ responsible for curating content of its central ‘channel’ . Each one also has it’s core stars living in ‘spaces’ / virtual real estate in the world’s high street, each one a portal to the deeper Metaverse. The star of each episode is elected via a tribe Battle Royale ‘format’ where audiences can vote by purchasing NFT Movie tokens from the contestants. Each time their star wins their stake doubles. When the winner is announced ownership of the episode (the NFT’s) is divided between token holders pro rata.
This post was written by: Jonny Peters https://www.linkedin.com/in/dreamchannel/
Founder: Dream Frames https://dreamframes.io/ (more info on this link about Dream Frames model)
Founder: Dream Channel XR https://dreamchannel.io/alpha/index.html
Appendix 1 >
Channel 25 — NFT MOVIE & Metaverse Movies —
The 25th channel of Dream Channel is ‘NFT MOVIE’ — watch movies, earn coins for engagement, use coins to purchase movie NFT’s ! Each movie genre has its own ‘town’ , each movie has it’s own ‘space’ , each space has a back door to any their story world. Each genre channel presents the characters of the story as 3D avatar collectibles living in genre city. The model is also known as a Metaverse Movie model.
This sector is the same structure as all other cities and has the same voting power in the DAO. The city however is owned and maintained by Dream Channel the company itself. Why? Let’s discuss >>
First let’s define what a Metaverse Movie is. Movies present audiences with story worlds that are simultaneously fantastical, magical, transcending time and space, where dramatic conflict between hero’s and villains, lovers and killers, aliens, creatures and humans are usually inserted into just one linear path within what is usually a complex and deep world, with the aim of answering all of life’s questions from the past, present and future. With the advent of XR — a mix of VR hardware, AR , game consoles and now mobile devices, — we are now able to explore the depth and and complexity of these worlds in person, choosing which way the adventure goes, exploring differing story outcomes, and even becoming immersed as the protagonist itself. Add to this the advent of social media and the real world itself been now been transformed into a ‘story’ world where the collective story experiences of participants are one giant interactive movie — something that movies need to incorporate into their future. Thus XR expands the potential of films beyond one single linear film experience lasting 90 minutes, into an interactive , multi platform narrative that can could last even years — the dawn of Metaverse Movies has arrived!
City 25 -NFT Movie — also acts as a pump — pumping collectible 3D avatars into Dream Channel from the movies that it acquires to broadcast. This is in line with the DAO constitution that specifies that all content must feature avatars that live in the Metaverse.
Why Now ?
The Internet is evolving into a virtual world — The web 3.0 Metaverse! Movies and TV shows can now be simultaneously immersive, non-linear (choose your own adventure) and can be financed and monetised through NFT’s & cryptocurrencies. Audiences are now demanding interactive narratives where they become engaged on many levels including ownership stakes and influencing Producer decision making.
Welcome Disruption
Most Film Producers agree that the process of financing films is a broken engine. to say the least and that disruption through technology would actually be welcomed if it meant that movies could be financed more easily. Why disruption hasn’t really happened to date is owing to the fact that film makers are inherently story people (not technical ) and film itself is a complex beast with nuances around financing and distribution of profits that you could never understand unless you were a film maker who has gone through the process of trying to raise finance — and at least 2–3 times. Plenty of tech companies have presented “disrupting the global film industry” , but they usually miss solving or even knowing the real problem. So until someone from the film industry leads the process there is little chance of coming up with the tech solution required.
The full list of Movie sub channels is as follows
- WORMHOLE — Science Fiction
- AMITY — Horror
- CYBERPUNK — Alter Egos, Avatars, Post Apocalyptic Worlds
- NOOB — Kids / MMO Games
- PIXEL VALLEY — DJ Stories
- WONDERLAND AVE — Fantasy
- CHECKPOINT CHARLIE — Thriller
- M — Murder Mystery
- CLIPPED — Gangster
- NANO NANO — Comedy
- PUSSY NOIR. — Sex & Romance
- LONE WOLF — Film Noir
- K*GRIND — Action Sports Movies
- PAY DAY — Sports
- BROOKLYN — Stories of Rock
- MUL DRIVE- LA Stories
- LOWER EAST SIDE — NY Stories
- BOOTY SECTOR — Stories of Hip Hop
- DRIFT — fast car fury
- 90 DEGREES WEST — Western
- CHERRY BOMB — LBGT
- WAN CHAI . — Fight World
- “THIS IS YOUR LIFE” — your life as a fractionalised NFT
- SCRIBE CAST — Art Channel
Film Financing Model — Dream Frames
Dream Channel brings with it a film financing model called ‘Dream Frames ‘ . Films can apply for funding but must be approved by the Dream Channel DAO
The model is unique in that it breaks a film down into individual NFT ‘frames’. Dream Channel then releases a coin for every frame in the film. Investors purchase as many frames as they want to own a stake in the film. When the film is made investors burn the coins to collect the NFT film frames (these can be grouped into scenes etc) . Owners can then stake their frames for royalties from a pre determined royalty pool. The model is fully explained at www.dreamframes.io
LAUNCH MOVIES
ENCIRCLED
Sector : 666
Encircled is a high end, multi platform, special effects driven horror movie, sold on the blockchain, and presented inside an immersive VR world where investors, and other films can buy and trade virtual land. We expect Encircled to sell out necessitating a second Encircled token sale to complete the virtual land sale.
Format : Feature film, VR Film, VR World
Story: Think Inside Out meets The Excorcist
Produced by Ross Howden, Steve Kearney (Oddball)
Written by : Shayne Armstrong & S.P. Krause (Blumhouse’s The Darkness, Bait)
Directed by : Christian Debney (Rising Wolf- VFX)
DZZZ Bonus = 40%
DREAM CHANNEL
Sector: Parallel
Format : Crowd Cast Format
Produced, Written & Directed by : Hologram NFT Game DAO * (see explanation at end of this post)
DZZZ Bonus = 40%
Synopsis & Format : Gangsters buy and sell dreams on the black market.
This interactive ‘crowd cast’ format plays the the concept of Metaverse Movies, allowing audiences to choose the protagonist through an fully interactive format, and earn bonus DZZZ tokens for their choices. In true transmedia style, 32 characters are vying to become the winner of a Battle Royale game show in the future. Matches in one on one battles fans back the winner by buying Dream Coin tokens from them. Each time the you back a winner, your Dream Coin stake doubles. After the final battle fans split the movie token pool pro rata based on their Dream Coin winnings. All backers earn a 40% DZZZ bonus for their investment in any character.
Eg — Amity, The Horror Channel includes the following:
- Haunted House (Ghosts & Spirits)
- Zombie Waste Lands (Zombies)
- The Fog (Monster)
- DownTown Dystopia (Virus / Giant Monster )
- The Heights — Of Scream Queen (Slasher)
- Wormhole (Sci Fi & Aliens )
- The Dread Forest (& Swamp) (Monster)
- LightHouse Point ( Animals, Sharks & Nature)
- Transylvania (Vampire & Warewolves)
- 666 (Possession / Devil & Demon Hell)
- Parallel (Psychological & Super Natural)
- Disturbia (Gore & Disturbing)
