Somnium Space News

Somnium V2 Is Finally Here!

So we took our old Somnium Space and supercharged it. What came out is what we all have been waiting for: Somnium Space 2.0!

New Features:

🔥 One Persistent World without mirrors - Everyone is in one instance!
🔥 Builder - Build anything you imagine with our preset assets
🔥 Full Body Avatars
🔥 Unity SDK - Import your Unity assets
🔥 New Graphics
🔥 New Planetarium
🔥 Multiplayer
🔥 Dynamic Lighting

Our core community is already testing heavily and the Builder, full body avatars and multiplayer work like a charm.

To follow our development real time and for the newest in-game pictures join our Discord channel for other updates go to our Twitter, Telegram, Instagram, YouTube and, yes, LinkedIn. We also post on Medium. Obviously the best channel to get in touch with us is during one of our events in VR in Somnium Space.

Ask us any question and give us feedback, we would love to hear from you.

The Somnium Space Team

Initial Land Offering

This is the biggest update in a while. With the launch of the new and improved Somnium Space version we are also starting our land auction. This time available for everyone, and easily accessible on OpenSea.io



Our New Builder Is Live! Let's #BUIDL

We will start building history together, so let's get on it --> Our new launcher can be downloaded from our website. Click on "Launch PC Client", make sure you let all the updates run and you are good to go. Pick one of your parcels, or choose the test parcel and start building. Simple as that... Now start buidling!

Now you will be able to do some amazing stuff with this early version. From using our default assets to play with all kinds of shapes applying ANY textures you want and embed videos, that all under some cool light effects.

After couple days this is what came in from our community:







If you want to see how easy and smooth the builder is then watch this time lapse from our one and only Mick Yellow:

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NFTs Are The Future

Blockchain would be just an empty word or just a buzzword like at some other projects, but at Somnium Space we like to have usecases for new tech that's why we waited until the blockchain technology starts to make sense for a VR world and economy. We are bringing you now the ultimate decentralized economy on the blockchain where you can own kayaks and kayak on our lake, or go tenting with your own tent. Both items will be on OpenSea soon in limited editions for you to get. And for all the artists and art fans, we partnered with KnownOrigin to bring you tokenized, unique art.

All You Need To Know About Our Move To Blockchain Explained:

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Our Founder and CEO Artur explains everything about our move to blockchain, NFTs and tokenizing and decentralizing our economy in this interview with Blockchain Brad. It is a must watch, if you want to dig deep into the topic.

Conferences Where You Meet Us:

We've been to some couple great conferences in the past two months, from Switzerland to Prague. And in the next two weeks you can see us at five more.

In Prague at the Hackers Congress in Paralelni Polis: https://opt-out.hcpp.cz/schedule
In Kyiv at the CGC: https://cryptogames.events/
In Munich at AWE: https://www.awexr.com/
Another Prague event, this one from the University of Economics: https://www.startupfestival.cz/
And in Somnium Space we are hosting VR event during Osaka's OFFDevcon: https://www.offdevcon.com/ on October 8th
To follow our development real time and for the newest in-game pictures join our Discord channel for other updates go to our Twitter. Obviously the best channel to get in touch with us is during one of our events in VR in Somnium Space.

Ask us any question and give us feedback, we would love to hear from you.


The Somnium Space Team

Hello People of Somnium,

The past 7 days were truly amazing! Our crowdfunding campaigns backers were able to reserve their parcels by using our brand new PC Client available only for them at this moment. The area around the city center is already reserved, but there are still lot's of prime coastal properties available for the public auction (Initial Land Offering) coming this summer. We will update you here and on all our social media channels once the date is set. For the latest updates go to our Discord channel or Twitter.



In the meantime we are building Somnium Space 2.0 which will be a blast when everything is ready for a better performance and visuals and more importantly capabilities. We will be ready at the end of summer too and we are planning to leave early access for good.



This is the near future, but for some outlooks about VR and Somnium Space you can watch the interview at Mixed Reality TV with our founder Artur


In other news, we were able to finalize our investment round, which will help us to develop quicker our vision for Somnium Space and in an amazing quality.

Social VR is here to stay and it won't go anywhere!

The Somnium Space Team

Dear people of Somnium!

We've been hard at work to make Somnium better and we are glad to announce that a new Christmas update is LIVE!

What is new in this client? Here we go:

- New holiday decoration: snow, Santa, Christmas tree, light decorations, snow piles etc.
- Play snowballs. Reach out to snow piles, grab a snowball and throw it as far as you can! Enjoy! :)
- Performance updates and minor bugs fixes! We are now at stable 50 - 90 fps levels at almost all locations.
- Microphone source can be now changed inside the game. Have a look at the top right corner of your game window.
- Virtual microphones grab system update - now you do not need to hold your virtual microphone by holding grab button all the time, you can just click it once to take and one more time to release!
- Advertising panel on main square. Learn more here

We hope you will enjoy our latest update. If you have feedback please feel free to contact us anytime and leave your comments here!

Somnium Space team!

Hello amazing people of Somnium!

What you have helped us to achieve so far is amazing! We have reached a 343% goal mark and there is still 39 days to go! World is watching and more new members join us every day!



Year End Final Event!

Throughout 2018 we have hosted a number of exciting events, starting from Live Music concerts with Kirsa Moonlight, to an amazing UFO deep dive talk with Kent Bye, political discussion,s VR influencers and many more. All recording you can find at our YouTube channel.

But for the end of this year we have prepared something truly special! Biggest VR YouTubers will participate in a final talk about VR. All that will be wrapped up with amazing performance of a live artist. We hope to see you there and have a lot of fun! Many surprises are coming too!




Working hard on new Somnium update!

As you know, we are preparing a huge update for Somnium in February, allowing you to enjoy crisp cinematic VR graphics alongside best performance on the market. We are working hard on each and every aspect of the map, environment, flora and fauna. Please see attached several amazing screenshots form our latest VR build. Please note: this is actual in-game footage. No post production was used.












You can expect fish, falling leaves, animals, wind, rains, snow etc etc. We are working really hard to deliver something not yet seen in VR in such a vast scale.

We are preparing a huge update when we reach 500%. This will be some exclusive preview of a new 2D PC client, full map view and much more!



Thank you all for your support and we hope to meet you soon inside Somnium Space!

Somnium Space Team!

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