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Application by: tamrrat
What is your project, and what problem does it solve?
Veew is an app that allows users to view Livepeer powered videos on a large screen on Meta Quest AR/VR headset, within a customizable 3D environment.
Veew will also develop a chrome extension that will allow users of current Livepeer powered apps to easily send a video from their desktop browser to their Meta Quest VR headset.
Link to public GitHub repo (if applicable)
https://github.com/tamg/veew
Link to demo website (if applicable)
https://veew.tv/
Please describe in more detail why this proposal is valuable for the Livepeer ecosystem
The AR/VR media format is projected to become one of the dominant medium for video viewing experience in the near future.
Thus providing a simple and seamless way to view Livepeer videos in AR/VR benefits the Livepeer ecosystem by expanding the network's reach into a constantly growing new medium.
Please describe in details what your final deliverable for this project will be.
Veew.tv: a live AR/VR app
Veew Repo: an open source GitHub repo containing the app
Veew Extension: an open source chrome extension for sending videos from a desktop browser to a VR headset
How will this deliverable benefit the Livepeer ecosystem?
The AR/VR media format is projected to become one of the dominant medium for video viewing experience in the near future.
Thus providing a simple and seamless way to view Livepeer videos in AR/VR benefits the Livepeer ecosystem by expanding the network's reach into a constantly growing new medium.
Please break up your development work into a clear set of milestones
What is the total amount requested (in USD)?
15000
Specify your team's long-term plans to maintain this software and upgrade it over time
Veew plans to use the most widely used web 3D library called React-Three-Fiber (24k stars). As such it will be consistently updated to support the latest library releases and features for the best VR viewing experience.
In addition Veew plans to add support to new platforms like the upcoming Apple Vision Pro when webXR support becomes available in the Safari browser
Please describe (in words) your team's relevant experience, and why you think you are the right team to build this project. You can cite your team's prior experience in similar domains, doing similar dev work, individual team members' backgrounds, etc.
I am an indie developer who has been working in the AR/VR space for the past 7 years.
Most recently I worked at Aave (Lens Protocol) helping in designing and developing a generative VR metaverse concept centered around a customizable virtual home for each user on the Lens social graph.
CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mXlCacdzeRDgkA-946shym6CYuA0xnVX
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tamrrat
Who is your target user group? How do you plan on getting your users to use this?
How did you learn about the Livepeer Grants Program?
Livepeer Discord
Was this project started at a hackathon or another web3 event? Which one?
No
Please include any additional information that you think would be useful in helping us to evaluate your proposal.