Get involved and become an actor into the preservation of monuments, natural sites, flora, fauna, know-how and fictional environments.
Join a digital twin project by contributing to its creation or evolution and become its curator. Decide on its developments and be rewarded for your contribution.
We are planning the development of several platforms dedicated to specific types of heritage and their specific user communities. Thus, it becomes possible to continuously expand the use cases of the LAY currency, to contribute to the preservation of an increasing variety of heritage subjects and to respond more specifically to technical specificities linked to intrinsic characteristics of subjects.
Digital twin : A set of data relating to a subject to be preserved. It is therefore a dynamic set (evolving over time) of heterogeneous content (images, archives, reference 3D models, exports, acoustic map, semantic breakdown, etc.).
Export : A selection of data (e.g. a 3D model) optimized for a specific use (AR / VR / Unity / Unreal / Voxel, etc.). These exports can concern the entire subject or a specific part of it (work of art, architectural element, texture, etc.) and can be distributed on our platform and on various asset stores.
And the best use cases have yet to be invented…
To keep a rich record of what is valuable and fragile by aggregating a large smart set of data on a specific heritage element.
To give the public a richer, more diversified, more personalized and more sustainable access to knowledge on a subject.
To create a virtuous economic model specific to the twin, allowing to finance the preservation of the real heritage.
To provide operational means for creators to reinterpret reality and history in new creative environments (VR, AR, Virtual Studios, metavers, etc.).
To propose a bottom-up innovation model to heritage institutions that creates a bridge between creators and them.
New environments of creation (XR) represent huge opportunities to invent new ways of promoting and broadcasting culture BUT production of a digital twin remains a very manual work process, very long, expensive, not very resilient (one capture for one output) and only based on visual perception.
In 2021, the European Union asked its member states to create 16 million digital twins of monuments by 2030. How to make this recommendation realistic without impoverishing it ? Lay3rs collaborates with research laboratories (CEA, ULB, Ecole Polytechnique) to develop new solutions to make this process more intelligent and able to fully exploit all existing data.
Reconstruction of scenes and objects from heterogeneous data based on computer vision (SLAM) and artificial intelligence (NeRF) algorithms.
Production of 3D assets by artificial intelligence (reconstruction, generative and procerural).
Multimodal twinThe production of sound scenes based on a 3D sound engine and dynamic twins.
Since 2021, we have been working with the intelligent systems department of the CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission and main French applied research center) on various technologies for capturing and reconstructing 3D environments. Today, LAY3RS is considered as a startup « backed » by the institution. In fact, we are working daily with different laboratories which are giving LAY3RS access to a panel of expertise as specific as rare. This already productive partnership will continue to develop in the coming years, to allow LAY3RS to reach the most ambitious, innovative and valuable technological ambitions.
In addition to their use for the renovation or scientific study of a subject, when contributors invest in the creation of a twin, in the acquisition of new data, part of these funds are donated to the institution in charge of preserving the real subject. In time, the portion allocated to them by the DAO from the sale of licenses to exploit the exports will constitute a new channel of regular income for the latter.
Neural Radiance Fields, or NeRFs, are a recent deep-learning technique in visual computing that allows 3D scenes to be represented using neural networks.
At the heart of NeRF is the idea of representing a 3D scene not as a set of surfaces or voxel grid, but as a continuous field of radiance information. It’s a bit like imagining that the air around us is filled with tiny particles that have color and brightness properties, and these properties change depending on where and in which direction you look.
NeRF offers high-quality rendering, especially concerning the handling of fine details and complex lighting effects like refractions and reflections. However, they require substantial computational power and can be slow to generate. A lot of work is in progress in order to reduce the need of computational power and to accelerate the training and rendering.
Web3 models make it possible to invent new forms of public engagement and funding for common projects such as heritage preservation. Web3 tools are often designed for technological or financial uses, and notions of ReFi and digital commons are only just emerging.
How can we propose an ecosystem of decentralized tools that align interests and bring together audiences (web3 friendly or not), institutions and creators?
A fungible token is a type of cryptographic token that is interchangeable with other tokens of the same type. This means that each unit of this token type is identical to every other unit. Fungible tokens are often used as currency because their interchangeable nature makes them useful for transactions.
LAY is a ERC-20 token for all services and platforms offered by LAY3RS. It is therefore used to :
While the token will be available to the public Q1 2024, a tesnet called PLAY (Prototype du LAY) is already available on the Build3rs.io platform.
Total supply : 1 000 000 000 LAY
Technology : Polygon
A non-fungible token (NFT) is a type of cryptographic token that is unique and non-interchangeable with other tokens. Each NFT has information or attributes that make it different from other tokens, which can give it a different value.
By assigning to each set of raw data (ERC-721) and to each export (ERC-1155), it becomes possible to manage complex rights structures and to pay fairly (over the entire value chain) and transparently for the various revenues generated by the distribution of exports.
A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) is a form of organization that is managed by rules coded as smart contracts on the blockchain. A LAY3RS’ DAO offers to contributors the ability to vote and handle its finances through web3/blockchain technologies for creation or development of a digital twin.
A DAO is collectively owned and controlled by its members, rather than by a single entity or a small group of individuals. In a DAO, all decisions are made through consensus or voting, with each member having a proportional vote based on their ownership stake in the organization. The governance rules of the DAO are encoded on the blockchain, which means they are transparent and immutable.
DAOs can be used for a wide range of purposes, from managing digital assets to organizing collaborative workgroups. They are designed to be fully transparent, thereby avoiding issues of corruption and conflicts of interest that may arise in traditional organizations.
Matrice (Social & Technological Institute) presents the project to create an ad-hoc structure to develop Lay3rs services.
