About

What is Odyssey?

Odyssey is an open source 3D content platform that is designed to redefine the virtual space as well as our physical world. By integrating AI, we enable anyone to unleash the power of their audience as creators.

In Odyssey, your audience can actively participate, generate content, shape the narrative, and connect and engage deeply. This is shifting the traditional unidirectional communication model to a collaborative one.

Discovering the future by building it, together

In 2016, when we saw the rise of crypto, blockchain, web3, and after having organised multiple conferences, we wanted to create a space for people to come together and instead of listening to speakers, explore, create together, experiment, and really discover where this technology can go and solve real world problems. For example, in energy, public services, identity, healthcare, even in regeneration of rainforest and protecting wildlife.

We also added AI to this equation, and this has led to the biggest blockchain, web3 and AI hackathons in Europe. In the years 2017-2018-2019 we welcomed thousands of people to the city of Groningen.

It was an incubator for corporates, governments, and NGOs to solve complex challenges using these technologies and working not with usual suppliers, but with startups, scale-ups, and even corporate IT providers die by side, so that different worlds would meet, connect, and inspire each other.

Pioneering online mass collaboration

When Covid pandemic hit in 2020, we were looking for a platform to host out hackathon for 2500 people from 60 countries and we quickly came to the conclusion that we had to build something completely new. Because there was nothing out there that would help us bring all these people together in one space, and enable them to connect in a meaningful way, co-create solutions together and facilitate a process of appreciation and curation to find which solutions would be the best to the challenges that were set with the corporate and governmental partners.

So we built our own platform: Momentum – the 3D online mass collaboration arena. Enabled 2500 participants to collaborate in the browser, in one virtual environment.

Going Web3

We decided to build the platform on web3 principles and we found a great web3 community to work with in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem. Funded by the Kusama treasury we set out on the exploratory journey with the amazing Dotsama ecosystem to discover how the 3D environment can be beneficial to the ecosystem itself as well as individual actors within the ecosystem.

3D co-creation for everyone

With the approval of a second grant, the journey continues…

Our vision from the beginning of this journey was to enable everyone to create an environment in which you can co-create on a massive scale. The first step was to create a boiler for that. In the browser.