**🎉 Ecosystem Showcase AMA with @infinitynft.near 🎉** ▪️Date: 23 May 2023 ▪️Platform: Discord near.chat **▪️TEXT RECAP:** **1. Team introduction** - Guest speakers: Andreas (CTO) and Valentin (CEO) from the AILand team. - AILand team has dedicated one and a half years of full-time work to the project. - The team comprises six members: founders, developers, marketers, and community builders. **2. AILand's long-term aspirations** - AILand aims to create an immersive game world with a unique user experience and become the leading gaming platform, seamlessly integrating AI and blockchain technology. - Goal to revolutionize how people interact and experience digital environments. - AILand goes beyond traditional gaming, providing a rich and immersive virtual world and offering a decentralized system where anyone can create and sell assets like NFTs. **3. Utilizing AI technology in AILand** - Leveraging AI technology to enhance the user experience and create intelligent NPCs and dynamic environments. - AI algorithms powering advanced gameplay mechanics and personalization features such as creating custom dances, emotions, and content. **4. Building on the NEAR blockchain** - Leveraging the NEAR stack for ownership verification of in-game assets. Potential integration of the blockchain operating system for launching apps and games on NEAR with AILand. - Positive experience building on the NEAR ecosystem with a friendly community and cutting-edge technology. **5. Interoperability and seamless user experience** - Partnering with platforms like Ready Player Me and UniAvatars for different avatar systems. - AILand is a multi-chain solution running on NEAR, Polygon, Ethereum, Solana, and Skale. Enabling interoperability between NFT assets from different blockchains. **6. User experience and activities in AILand** - Gaming experience with different game modes. - Hosting educational workshops and events in collaboration with organizations. - Workshops for creators, including 3D artists and digital fashion artists. - Offering customization options and engaging gameplay. **7. Getting started in AILand and support for users** - AILand is free to play and can be downloaded from the website. Easy onboarding process to start experiencing AILand. Customizing avatars and engaging in game modes. - Steam version available without blockchain transactions. - Educational content and getting started guides available on YouTube. **8. Partnerships and collaborations** - Main partnership with Mintbase for building infrastructure and marketplace for 3D NFT collections. - Partnership with Microsoft for Startups Hub and grant from Microsoft using Azure. - Collaboration with AI-related gaming startups like Ready Player Me, UniAvatars, Anything World. - Collaboration with AI cinema for generating real-time AI cinema. **9. Roadmap and milestones**: Upcoming milestones include releasing a mobile version (this summer) and an AI world creation toolkit for users to create worlds from prompts (in Q1 2024). **10. AI-Generated Movies and Shows** - AILand offers AI-generated movies and shows such as a sitcom comedy show with AAA quality and human-like avatars which can be found on [Youtube account](https://www.youtube.com/@ainpc). - The show provides a new way of watching shows and the avatars in the show are NFTs minted on the blockchain.