HIKKY Calls for Beta Testers of Vket Cloud, a Metaverse Engine

19 May 2022

HIKKY calls for Beta Testers of Vket Cloud, a metaverse engine.
HIKKY is requesting testers to create an environment using the model data from Vket Cloud.

· What is Vket Cloud?

Vket Cloud is a high-end metaverse engine. Develop your very own virtual spaces using Vket Cloud and you can access it with a mere click from your smartphones and web browsers without downloading any specific application or add-on. Vket Cloud supports fully networked multiplayer so that everyone can enjoy communicating through voice chat, expressive avatars and text chat, from anywhere in the world, in real time.

· Behind the Beta Test

Vket Cloud is not a platform or software as a service, but is better described as a development engine where you can create your own metaverse spaces.

We aspire to make it available for everyone to express their creative potential without platform limits or hardware boundaries.

In this Beta Test, we would like the testers to develop their own worlds through Vket Cloud on a trial basis and to give us feedback. With the feedback, we will make Vket Cloud development tools more accessible for everyone. As an early adopter, you will be well equipped to capitalize on the platform when it’s ready, and have a voice in its development.

Skills in Unity will be necessary for this Beta Test, but we are currently developing editors and tools that are more easily accessible for people without technical knowledge, with in-house tools and templates.

If you are interested: check out the Beta Test overview and the skill requirements, and fill in the Vket Cloud Beta Testing registration form.*

*Please understand that there is a limit in the number of testers.

The Beta Testers will be provided model data of a venue called GALLEREAL free of charge.

Modify the GALLEREAL model freely to make your own unique world.

The world will be uploaded onto the test server provided by HIKKY and please note that it will be open to the public later.

What you can do in the Beta Test

　・Modify the GALLEREAL model and let people enjoy the world you’ve created using Vket Cloud

　・Use your own model data and test it in multiplayer with other testers using Vket Cloud

　・Set external links to your own websites or create a ring of Vket Cloud metaverses

　・Make your content open to public

　　- You will be using the test server provided by HIKKY, note that cloud can be self-hosted in the future.

　・We encourage our beta testers to point out problems and possible improvements
-User interface

-Bugs

-Exploits

-Crashing

-Font and upper case characters are unreadable

-Slow loading times, assets fail to load, etc

-Anything else you discover!

What you CANNOT yet do in the Beta Test:

　・Commercial use (Self Promotion is allowed, but please refrain from selling exhibition spaces and the like. Please send an inquiry to Hikky for further information.)

　・Having avatars unique to the world (Visitors are going to use default avatars or their own)

　・Developing overly computationally complex scripts or functions.*

For now, we’re looking to test the general usability on a surface level. Extremely complex scripts like full games will be of interest in due time, but due to the myriad of situations that can occur (and knowing the great talents of our testing pool!), we ask that any scripts during the testing period are simple and readable for our development staff.

　・Housing functions and Avatar Maker functions are still in development

GALLEREAL model data

Sample use of GALLEREAL model: Enu Art Museum Entrance

Sample use of GALLEREAL model: Enu Art Museum

At least one person in your team must be able to:

　・place GameObjects in a Unity Scene

　・swap textures of materials

　・have a rough idea of what an FBX file is

These should be quite basic skills for Unity.

Please check the registration form for more details.

Go to the link below, read all the notes and the terms of use, and submit the form by May 22nd.

Registration Form: https://forms.gle/3y83xii3vCrfkLh6A

In addition, we are looking for technical support staff during the test.

As technical support staff, you will be answering questions relating to world development using Unity to other beta testers.

The model of the venue will be provided to members who take on the role of staff, but your world will not be open to the public.

If you wish to support us as a staff, please join our Discord and let us know there.

Discord：https://discord.gg/Q2TZA5qq8M

We are planning to have an event in summer or fall for everyone to show their creations during the beta test!

Please follow our Twitter and Discord for the latest information.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/VketCloud

Discord: https://discord.gg/Q2TZA5qq8M

Founded in 2018, HIKKY is a VR company that organizes, produces, and promotes large-scale VR/AR events and contents. As a group with leading creators in the entertainment VR industry, it holds the ambition to expand the industry and to cultivate content creators. HIKKY intends to improve both the living and the economic spheres within the virtual world so as to support creators to its fullest potential.

Major accomplishments include Virtual Market 4, which was chosen as the winner of VR Marketing of the Year within the VR Awards and as the winner of XR Creative Award 2020.

CEO: Yasushi Funakoshi

HIKKY Co., Ltd.

Ebisu ST Building 2F, 3-24-2 Higashi

Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0011, Japan

Company Website: https://www.hikky.co.jp