🌸Web 3.0 研究所🌸 🌸Web 3.0 Research Institute🌸
Blind-Braille Digital Art x Web3.0
What is Web3.0? A Brief Introduction
Web3.0 is a concept for the next generation of the internet. It aims to overcome the challenges of the current Web2.0—which is dominated by large platforms like GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon)—by becoming more decentralized and user-driven.
The Challenges of Web2.0 and the Vision for Web3
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The internet we use today (Web2.0) offers incredible convenience and a wide range of services, such as social media, search engines, and e-commerce sites. However, it also faces several challenges:
- Centralization: A few massive IT companies (like GAFA—Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) control and dominate user data, content, and platforms. This often leads to issues like censorship, privacy violations, and dependency on a single platform.
- Data Ownership: Data and content created by users often become the property of the platform. This means users have limited control over their own data and how it’s monetized.
- Platform Risk: A user’s activities and data can be impacted by changes in a platform’s rules or by the shutdown of a service.
In contrast, Web3 aims to create an internet with the following characteristics.
The main features of Web3.0
- Decentralization: This means the network doesn’t rely on a single administrator or server. Instead, information and value are shared and managed across the entire network. Blockchain technology is the crucial foundation that makes this decentralization possible.
- User-Centric: Users have the right to own and manage their own data and digital assets. The goal is to allow users to freely access services and applications without being dependent on a specific platform.
- Trustless: Thanks to the transparency and security of the blockchain, users can safely conduct transactions and interact with each other without needing a centralized, trusted intermediary.
- Native Value Transfer: Digital assets like cryptocurrencies are treated as a native part of the internet, making it easy to transfer value and conduct transactions.
- Permissionless: Anyone can join the network and develop or use services without needing specific permission.
Key Technologies Supporting Web3.0
- Blockchain: A decentralized ledger technology that securely records transaction history and data, preventing tampering. Bitcoin and Ethereum are well-known examples of blockchains.
- Cryptocurrency: A digital currency issued and managed on a blockchain. It serves as the foundation for value transfer and economic activity in Web3.
- NFT (Non-Fungible Token): A non-interchangeable token used to prove ownership of unique digital assets such as digital art, music, and in-game items.
- Smart Contract: A program that runs on a blockchain and automatically executes a contract when specific conditions are met. This is a foundational technology for things like DeFi (Decentralized Finance).
- DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization): A decentralized autonomous organization that operates without a central authority. It is run by community members, often through voting.。
Braille Digital Art × Web3
Overview
This project aims to combine the following two key aspects.
- Creation and development of Braille digital art
- Concept: This project explores new forms of expression for Braille digital art, making it accessible to a wider audience, including those with visual impairments.
- Technology: We will utilize technologies such as visual and haptic displays, tactile feedback technology, 3D printing, projection mapping, and interactive tech. This will allow us to expand and reimagine the unique characteristics of Braille digital art in a digital space.
- Expression: The art will go beyond static Braille by incorporating temporal changes, movement, and a variety of textures to create a new artistic experience.
- Development: We are considering various avenues for this project, including sales on NFT marketplaces, exhibitions in online galleries, and providing tactile experiences at physical art shows.
- Research and Application of Web3 Technology
- We will explore how Web3 technologies—such as blockchain, NFTs, and DAOs—can be leveraged to enhance the creation of value, distribution, community building, and accessibility of Braille digital art.
- Research Topics
- Clarifying Ownership and Building Monetization Models through NFT-ification of Braille Digital Art: This involves using NFTs to establish clear ownership of the artwork and create new ways for artists to earn revenue.
- Automating Usage Rights and Copyright Management with Smart Contracts: We’ll explore how smart contracts can automatically handle the terms of use and copyright for art pieces, streamlining the process.
- Encouraging Participation in Planning, Creation, and Curation of Braille Digital Art via a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization): This focuses on using a DAO to allow a community of members to participate in the entire lifecycle of an art project, from concept to exhibition.
- Exhibiting and Interacting with Braille Digital Art in Metaverse Spaces: We will research how Braille digital art can be displayed and experienced in virtual worlds, creating new interactive opportunities.
- Applying Web3 Technology to Improve Accessibility: We’ll look into using Web3 tech to make art more accessible. Examples include features that read NFT information aloud for visually impaired users and integrations with haptic feedback.
- Creating a New Value Economy Among Creators, Collectors, and Supporters via a Token Economy: This involves building a token-based system to create a new way for value to flow between everyone involved in the art ecosystem.
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