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Auki Labs launches app to decorate spaces with NFTs in shared AR
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Auki Laboratories has launched McKenna, a new augmented reality Web3 application that helps you decorate mixed reality environments.
Hong Kong-based Auki Labs is the creator of posemesh, a decentralized spatial computing protocol for AR, metaverse, and smart cities. It created McKenna as a tool to digitally decorate physical spaces through augmented reality shared with non-fungible tokens (NFTs), photos, videos, and notes.
The app is designed to integrate with users’ portfolios and lets them display and view digital art in their own spaces, from living rooms and lounges to offices and museums. It has a game called Floorcraft Blasters, where you use your phones to compete against each other in a multiplayer mixed reality game.
Unlike other apps that allow users to briefly display NFTs in AR, McKenna is powered by Auki Labs’ posemesh, a decentralized and precise positioning system that enables persistent and social experiences. This posemesh integration makes McKenna the first app of its kind to enable social viewing of digital art in persistent AR in indoor spaces.
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McKenna is powered by Auki Labs’ posemesh, a decentralized, accurate positioning system.
“Digital things feel so much more real when you can see them together. McKenna’s ability to socially showcase digital art in augmented reality is truly a new kind of experience,” said Nils Pihl, CEO of Auki Labs, in a statement. “McKenna makes it possible to create immersive, social AR experiences that transform the way people feel about art and the space in which it’s presented. It goes from being on your phone screen to being in your space. Seeing together is believing.”
Displaying art with McKenna takes just a few minutes and is available on iPhone and Android devices. Users first establish their own posemesh domain using Auki Labs’ Domain Management Tool (DMT) and QR codes. These “portal” placements serve as discovery points and calibration references in a single, persistent coordinate system.
After creating a domain in DMT, McKenna users simply place their favorite images, videos, and memories into the coordinate system. Visiting devices can then enter this digital layer with an external sense of space and visualize experiences together in their precise positioning.
“Shared augmented reality is a radically different AR paradigm, dramatically accelerating the promise of a collaborative metaverse,” Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures, which invested in the project in 2021, said in a statement. “The posemesh decentralized machine perception network is a foundational protocol for the spatial internet; based on principles of data sovereignty and privacy.”
Through a partnership with Joy Studios, McKenna users will soon be able to display exclusive in-game collectibles in their physical environments, earned through participation in their upcoming title Kingdom of Dice.
Since 2019, Auki Labs and posemesh have raised a total of $19 million in seed funding, including support from industry giants such as Animoca Brands, Outlier Ventures, and Shima Capital.
Following the launch of posemesh’s underlying utility token, $AUKI, later this year, McKenna’s early adopters, domain owners, and decentralized domain server operators will be able to earn token rewards for creating experiences and attracting visitors.
The company has 35 people. On the gaming front, the company has a partnership with Joy Studios. McKenna users will soon be able to display exclusive in-game collectibles in their physical surroundings, earned through participation in its upcoming title Kingdom of Dice.
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