Last week’s drop of our revamped website also saw Everdome release our roadmap for 2024, with a slightly different approach taken to our roadmap and projected milestones as our project matures.
Every action and milestone needs to be pushing our project to a fully sustainable and successful future, and to reflect this we created a new methodology for assessing our goals.
This new methodology means we move away from a simple milestone based roadmap, and focus on a more flexible model based around our five key business goals, also termed as objectives and key results (OKRs).
Over the next few days, we will post a series of posts explaining these OKRs in more detail, to ensure our community fully understands the depth and breadth of our ambition shown in this new format roadmap.
Today we look at the first two goals, Stability and Scalability - and Engagement.
Stability and Scalability - Means that we ensure creation of a strong, robust yet flexible core, building a firm and future proofed foundation on which to add later layers of experience. Included in our roadmap milestones for this goal are:
- Merging spaces into Everdome City HQ environment
This goal fuses key elements of Everdome in one central place, providing a way for easy travel across metaverse destinations created both by Everdome, and also our community of creators. - Improving tech-stack and Infrastructure
While this work doesn't make the same headlines as new features - it is of paramount importance if our platform will be stable, scalable and future-proofed. You can already discover more information about our infrastructure and technology inside our revised Lite Paper here. - Environment Patching
We will constantly provide updates and improvements across the year - informing our community each step of the way - with a changelog to be added to our website in the upcoming future. - Stats of spaces usage for creators
We need to measure and track our success - so stats for spaces and other parts of our world are vital, especially as we start to roll out a creator-driven economy model.
These stats will not only be available to Everdome, but to all creators so they can gauge their success and refine their creations for greater engagement and power.
Engagement - Means we constantly look for ways to keep an audience coming back to our platform, by growing our world and setting the environment for creators to help fill our digital world with life. Included in our roadmap milestones for this goal are:
- New HQ experiences and areas introduced
The team is already at work on a brand new area of the HQ, which some of you might have noticed was included in our recent website release video. We are looking to combine small and intimate creator areas for their VIP audiences, with larger spaces to host increasing numbers as Everdome grows in scope and popularity. - Themed games introduced in HQ
A key goal is to raise engagement through interactive activities, games and contests across our HQ and environment. Our team is already working on baseline activities for engaging games in our alpha environment, which will be launched, tested and iterated across 2024. - Creator toolkit delivered - additional assets, colors & more
Creators are central to the success of Everdome, and also to the metaverse as an entire ecosystem. Everdome plans to increase the power of our digital world with a gradually improved toolkit for creators of all types, with accessibility and ease of use at the forefront of our development plans. These toolkits will focus on bringing real life into the metaverse, allowing creators to easily add improved or longer video, interactive presentations and more. - Event management features for Spaces - including password protections
Everdome will gradually improve the ability to manage and host live events inside spaces, and across our digital city by building and scaling event management features and functionality, adding password protections and more as we layer functions to augment metaverse events.
These features will start to lay the groundwork for paid ticketed events hosted by space owners or creators. - New & improved avatars
We launched with a basic choice of Avatars that can already be used inside our environment. Everdome’s team plans to improve the detail, quality, movements and choice of Avatars as we add interactive features across 2024. - New spaces types
Our team is already busy creating new spaces with different use cases, adding features and functionalities that will support events including film presentations, interactive talks, pitches, panel discussions and more - as well as spaces that can be adjusted to fit varying audience sizes. - AI functionalities added
Everdome is scoping how AI can be best used across our environment, to power toolkits, creation, engagement and interactive features for creators, visitors and brands alike. We view AI as an essential tool that will increasingly speed metaverse development - Everdome will begin to build AI tooling into our digital world over the next twelve months.
Our next post will deal in more detail with the next two elements of our 2024 roadmap - Reach and Visibility as well as Economy.
As always, we welcome all feedback and are delighted with the engagement coming from our community across our socials in discussion of our next steps.
Building the metaverse is a team effort - we are honored to have you all on team Everdome.
#ImagineTheMetaverseDifferently