WEBAVERSE

Webaverse is a platform for creating and playing interactive 3D worlds, combining five integrated, AI-powered tools: a Wiki knowledge base for defining characters, items, scenes and creatures with collaborative editing and version history; Generations, an AI pipeline that produces 3D characters, cinematic scene images, 360-degree panoramas, Gaussian splats, items, sprites, sound effects and music; NPCs, which are AI-driven characters with personalities, voices and memories that can be grouped into parties; an Editor providing drag-and-drop asset placement, multiple camera modes, navmesh generation, physics and real-time multiplayer collaboration; and Play, which lets users explore levels, interact with NPCs, traverse linked scenes and share experiences solo or with others. The documented workflow moves from creating lore in the wiki, to generating assets from wiki entries, to designing levels in the editor, to playing the result.

The company also maintains an open source lineage. The webaverse-studios/webaverse repository describes an open source web3 metaverse game engine that anyone can host, running in the browser on open tools and standards such as three.js and Node, with an infinitely procedurally generated world, multiplayer with voice and chat, AI-powered non-player characters, desktop and VR support, expressive avatars, runtime support for user uploads and custom apps, and full self-hosting. A separate webaverse/webaverse.com repository covers a web dashboard for minting and interacting with metaverse NFTs, including transferable and non-transferable minting, fee settings and asset previews, avatar and loadout application, transfers between Ethereum and Polygon, unlockables and file storage, user profile pages, a top-down seasonal map with interactive parcel links, and generated trading cards with RNG elements and battle stats.

Earlier Webaverse work centered on open standards and distributed infrastructure for an open metaverse on the web, spanning a spatial web browser, real-time communications, a spatial creation tool, and a spatial package manager and directory.

Business model

Webaverse operates a hosted creation platform delivered through its website, where users build worlds with AI-assisted tools and play the resulting experiences. Alongside the hosted product, the company publishes its engine and supporting components as open source code on GitHub, including a self-hostable browser-based game engine and a web dashboard, which allows third parties to run their own instances and contribute code.