# Introduction
Sougen Whitepaper (last update Feb.2022)
Sougen is a decentralized virtual world that allows people to socialize, learn, work, and get entertained in new ways.
Our 3D Metaverse offers a place for communities to gather and share time together in a more immersive way, adding a physical feeling to their experience.
We believe that Metaverse should grow from a collective effort. This is why our users will be empowered with tools to allow them to seamlessly create their own experiences in Sougen and receive full ownership for their creations thanks to Web 3.0
Furthermore, our main vision is that Metaverse should be open to everyone.
This is why Sougen has been conceived as a Web-First Metaverse, to be accessible from anywhere and on any device through the browser.
While never losing focus on building a user-friendly, inclusive and accessible user experience, we strive to build the most immersive 3D Metaverse experience ever made.
Offering our community endless opportunities.
# The Sougen ecosystem
In a market where cryptocurrency projects are the perfect playground for scammers or for projects that never deliver their promise, we believe that we have to demonstrate the seriousness of our project.
This is why the Sougen team worked behind the scene for months building the foundation of the Sougen world. As a proof of concept, the team was also focused on crafting their first Microverse experience : The prologue.
The prologue will showcase our technical expertise and will act as a sample of what we will offer to our users in the future.
Sougen is segregated into 4 major platform pillars relying on the Polygon blockchain:
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[GEN world](/what-sougen-will-offer/gen-world)
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[Sougen Microverses](/what-sougen-will-offer/sougen-microverses)
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[Sougen Builder](/what-sougen-will-offer/sougen-builder)
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[Sougen Marketplace](/what-sougen-will-offer/sougen-marketplace)
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# GEN world
The main hub of the Sougen Metaverse.
A place where all the communities gather to create and exchange.
The GEN map will be composed of 102,400 parcels all linked to NFTs and will be obtainable through successive land sales. Out of it, 8,192 parcels (8%) will be held by The Sougen team to create free and high-quality experiences. And 11,264 parcels (11%) will be held in a reserve and distributed to partners, creators, and users as rewards.
Landowners will receive various benefits such as full ownership of their land, the freedom to share, rent or sell their parcel or receive the ability to earn monthly rewards in Sougen tokens and NFTs drop.
The Sougen builder will allow landowners to create their own experience on top of their land, whether it is to start a business, advertise, make games or show off their NFT collections. The Landowner will have access to all the advanced features of the Sougen builder for free.
The GEN world will also have the mission to be a gateway that will showcase and highlight the best Microverses, making them accessible in one click.
# Sougen Microverses
Metaverses for virtual events and NFTs communities.
Microverses could be defined as smaller and independent Metaverse.
The perfect example of what is a Sougen Microverse will be The prologue experience.
Creators will have the freedom to fully customize their Microverse from the shape of the world to the 3D art style.
By default, Microverses are free to create. To unlock advanced customization features, creators or community members will be required to lock or burn a specific amount of Sougen tokens.
In the future, top-tier features will even allow Microverses to hold their own land sales, evolving Microverses into real Community Metaverse.
Unique URLs will be generated for each Microverses to make them accessible in one click.
For companies or communities who need to make their Microverse private, a privacy option will be available. To grant access to private Microverse, users could be required to get invited, hold specific NFTs, pay a fee, or subscribe to a plan through a smart contract.
# Sougen Builder
The Unity builder for the Web.
A simple but powerful drag and drop editor, directly in your browser. The builder will allow creators to create experiences on top of their land in the GEN world, to build their Microverse, and even allow to craft NFTs assets.
No coding will be required. Sougen will provide a visual interface accessible directly via the web browser. It will allow users to arrange the scene, drag and drop 3D models and textures and customize the assets to seamlessly build, share and sell their creations.
The physic engine will automatically generate and attach collision into the 3D models of the scene provided by the users, without requiring the fastidious work of adding the collisions hitboxes by hand.
It is important for the team to build a great developer community. That is why the builder will be open-source. We will provide the best tools possible to allow developers to extend the builder capacities. As Sougen is based on Javascript, the most commonly used language amongst developers. We believe we will have a huge opportunity to attract them.
Every asset made in this creation tool can be mint as an NFT to allow creators to receive true ownership of everything they made and sell them in the Sougen marketplace.
# Sougen Marketplace
The most user-friendly NFT marketplace.
As creators retain copyright and full ownership of everything they created. They will be allowed to sell and trade their assets in exchange for Sougen tokens in our marketplace.
Accessible through the browser on any device, this marketplace will rely on smart contracts to control auctions and transactions.
At any time, our community will be allowed to free trade their creations and properties: fashion assets, skins, avatars, land, and even a whole Microverse.
As a web-first project, we will also have the technical advantage to be able to display those assets in 3D directly in our Marketplace, offering an even more enjoyable experience to buyers.
# Sougen Token
Take part to the decentralization revolution
The Sougen ecosystem will be powered by our main utility token.
### Use case
Our Token will be used for different purposes:
**Minting** \
For minting Fashion accessories and Land.
**Microverse builder** \
Advanced features will require creators to lock and burn a specific amount of Sougen tokens.
**Exclusive access** \
Access to exclusive areas and experiences in the GEN World.
**Transactions**\
Sougen token will allow our users to buy and sell NFTs including land, fashion accessories, avatars, microverse directly in the Metaverse or in the Sougen Marketplace.
**Rewards** \
Generate automatic rewards for landowners who will offer free and qualitative experiences on their land. Creators and communities that spend time and bring value to Sougen will also be admissible to receive rewards.
**Governance** \
Holding Sougen tokens will allow users to exercise key voting rights on major decisions about the future direction and development of the Sougen ecosystem and the GEN world.
As we believe the token is the most important part of the future of Sougen. We will only release it after we make sure that it has been designed to fit perfectly our ecosystem.
# A Web-First Metaverse
Web-First Metaverse represents an amazing opportunity to reach millions of people by reducing the friction of access as much as possible for the users.
The web offer tremendous advantage compare to proprietary platforms:
* Run-on most of the devices.
* Connect in one click, no need to install or download anything.
* Instant publishing on update.
* Better interoperability to build bridges with other Metaverse.
* No risk that a centralized company like Apple or Steam blacklists/censors you overnight.
All these features are impossible or very limited for projects made with software like Unity or Unreal.
> **If you believe decentralization is the future then your Metaverse must be Web-First.**
Nevertheless, the development of a metaverse running in the browser requires strong expertise both in web and 3D.
We noticed that most of the web Metaverses offer poor user experiences with low FPS, freezes, and even crashes even on high-spec devices.
We are confident that Sougen has a huge market opportunity to take here.
# Introduction
An industry-leading 3D Metaverse, built towards the future.
With more than 15 years of experience in building Web experiences in 2D, 3D and, WebGL, the success of Sougen is ensured by our team of experts.
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[WebGL powered](/sougen-technical-advantages/webgl-powered)
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[Blazing-fast performances](/sougen-technical-advantages/blazing-fast-performances)
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[Web-First to native](/sougen-technical-advantages/web-first-to-native)
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[Large-scale multiplayer](/sougen-technical-advantages/large-scale-multiplayer)
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# WebGL powered
While using the industry-standard solutions: Next.js, React and Threejs (React-Three-Fiber) our team of expert allows us to push the boundaries of what it is possible to do in terms of 3D on the web.
WebGL (Short for Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D graphics within any web browser without the use of plug-ins.
WebGL is fully integrated with other web standards, allowing GPU-accelerated usage of image processing and effects.
This technology allows users to access a rich 3D world without requiring them to buy an expensive Playstation, iPhone, or computer, making our Metaverse the most accessible experience of all.
By relying on industry-standard frameworks, we will also be compatible with the next revolution of WEBGPU.
This technology will allow us to unlock native performance on the web, offering a 3D experience similar to the latest game console in the coming years.
# Blazing-fast performances
We believe there were two crucial problematics to answer for the metaverse:\
\- Automatically generate the physic of the assets.\
\- Build rich experience microverse, with fast and fun game-ready physics.
The most common physic engine libraries used on the web seem to be cannon.js and matter.js.\
Both are great to reproduce simulations for complex physics. Nevertheless, our main priority was to be able to build a new scene as easily and fast as possible.
For that purpose, we needed a physic engine less focused on physic simulation and more oriented for the Metaverse. We wanted to support complex shapes, to automatically transform 3D models (Convex polyhedron) to physic-ready entities. That is why we developed our own physics engine (Sougen engine).
The Sougen engine also allows us to have a more precise collision detection compared to other Metaverses that are using simple shapes (box, sphere, plane) for their collision system. It also allows us to bend more easily the physics to our will and create fun modes.
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# Web-First to native
If we believe that the web browser is a perfect way to enjoy Sougen, we should not forget users who prefer to use apps.
As mentioned before, Sougen is using React. This framework is offering tremendous advantages compared to other solutions:
Great performance. Stability and reliability (React is used by many fortune 500 companies) The same code base for deployment on iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS.
This last point implies a huge saving in development time and cost.
Thank to React we will soon also be able to compile Sougen in a version offering the same experience as a native application.
Also to offer more ways to our users to enjoy Sougen, our team already added controller support and is already working on a VR version of the project.
By the end of 2022, we are confident that Sougen will be accessible from every device whether in a web browser or inside applications.
Making Sougen the first Metaverse to reach this achievement.
# Large-scale multiplayer
From day one, Sougen’s Metaverse will support **up to 200 players** at the same time per world instance. A never-before-seen number for a 3D Web Metaverse.\
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Offering more fun and immersive experiences for our users.
This achievement has only been possible thanks to the development of our own instance skinned mesh system.
With only the cost of computing an instance skinned mesh once, we can render multiple characters with only the rendering cost of each instance, saving a huge amount of calculation in the process.
This system is allowing us to also add features including:
* Rich animations and emotes.
* Advanced skinning and color theming system.
* Flying or sliding displacement to offer more freedom of movement for our users.
* Meaningful micro-interactions like head tracking systems between avatars help people to connect on a more emotional level.
As technology evolves, we will be able to scale those numbers while preserving a perfect experience for all.
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# Introduction
Metaverse is all about NFTs and ways to showcase your best gear.
At the current time, 3D in the web is putting limitations on how far we can go in terms of the 3D models’ complexity.
By opting for a semi-realistic 3D design we came to the best compromise between performance and rendering.
Our main goal was to offer more freedom for brands and creators to design fashion assets or worlds, compared to a more “Minecraft-like” cubic art direction that would have limited the 3D model shape.
Our team with its strong technical advantage will always strive to offer the best 3D graphics without sacrificing performance for a smooth experience.
Raising new standards of what a web Metaverse should look like.
# NFTs Shader
Sougen will create a new type of NFTs named “NFTs Shader”.
Shaders could be compared as special effects (SFX) for 3D. With it, you can add various effects on the colors, lights, distortions to some parts, or the entire 3D scene.
Those SFX will be based or triggered on different properties like their rarity, the owner or creator proximity, your position in the world, etc…
Sougen also includes rich particles systems that make our world feel more alive and fun to explore. We will implement an NFTs shader that will make those particles react to the particles.
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# NFTs Avatars
Customization should not be limited to only fashion or accessories.
As we want to offer more creative freedom to our users to show off who they really are in the Metaverse, we will introduce NFTs avatars.
The first species that all the community will be able to incarnate during our alpha phase are called “The ancients”.
They are the creators and protectors of the Metaverse.
Through centuries, they survived countless bear markets, learned Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity, and were there for the release of Ethereum 3.0 in 2094.
Master of the hodl philosophy, they are now the perfect link between nature and technology.
The first Sougen NFTs sale will be held in the coming months and will allow our community to acquire for the only and one-time the ancients NFTs avatars.
Making them the only users able to incarnate these avatars after the alpha.
The ancient avatars owner will also get special benefits like access to our land presale and other advantages that will be announced later.
The coming species, but not exhaustive, list are Humans (they will be the default avatars and will not require NFTs), cyborgs, robots, and anthropomorphic animals.
We also plan to partner with popular NFTs collections to implement their avatars into Sougen.
# Introduction
Without any requirement of technical knowledge, the builder will empower the creators to give life to their personal vision of the Metaverse.
Here are some use cases on how our community could use our tools to create their own Microverse or land inside the GEN world.
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[Sougen NFTs](/sougen-use-cases/sougen-nfts)
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[Sougen digital events](/sougen-use-cases/sougen-digital-events)
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[Sougen Games](/sougen-use-cases/sougen-games)
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[Sougen Portals](/sougen-use-cases/sougen-portals)
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# Sougen NFTs
The next generation of NFTs marketplace.
Until now NFTs were just a list of products displayed on a web page similar to Amazon.
Sougen will allow artists to display their NFTs in 3D worlds to help them showcase their arts the way they really intended to.
With the Sougen NFTs Shaders, we will also grant artists tools to create new kinds of experiences similar to interactive installations in the real world.
Offering creators new opportunities to sell their artwork.
# Sougen digital events
In recent years and especially from the recent pandemic the need for virtual showrooms and digital events skyrocketed.
Whether you plan to hold concerts, seminars, classrooms, Sougen is building tools for creators to hold and easily monetize those events.
We will also allow NFTs projects to easily add their characters to our world and create small Metaverse for their community.
# Sougen Games
Sougen will offer tools for creators to make their 3D games inside of our Metaverse. They will also be able to tokenize and sell them so other users can include them in their Microverse or land.
We also plan to create some game areas inside the GEN world to provide great entertainment for all the community.
# Sougen Portals
Thanks to web technologies our users will be able to embed parts of the Sougen Metaverse directly in websites or create widgets for blogs to embed their Sougen lands, characters, NFTs galleries... the use cases are limitless.
For example, Streamers would be able to create Sougen Microverses for their communities and embed them inside their streaming profile page.
Offering a space for fans to gather, connect and enjoy the creator content together.
# Roadmap
To deliver the most advanced Metaverse ever.
### **T***HE PROLOGUE*
*Coming soon* | AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SOUGEN METAVERSE, SHOWCASING ITS SOLID FOUNDATION.
* The prologue Microverse
* Next-gen NFTs gallery
* Exciting mini-games
* NFTs collection
### **FOUNDATION**
*Q2. 2022* | EXPANDING THE METAVERSE WITH MORE CONTENT AND MORE SOCIAL FEATURES.
* Voice chat
* Photo mode
* VR support
* Inventory system
* Live Events & Concerts
* A new world to explore
### **REVOLUTION**
*Q4. 2022* | ENTER THE MAIN WORLD OF SOUGEN IN THE MOST DIVERSE WAY EVER.
* Android/iOS/Windows and Mac app release
* GEN world foundation.
* Localization in 3 languages.
* Friends list system.
* Land presale
### CREATION
*Q2. 2023* | EMPOWERING CREATORS WITH NEVER SEEN BEFORE BUILDING TOOLS.
* Virtual land Marketplace & Map.
* Empowering creators with online building tools. Allowing creators to make their own world inside our metaverse, with a powerful and easy-to-use building editor.
* Seamlessly add your own 3D model with physic capabilities, post-processing renders control, lightning and particles system...
* Everything to give life to your ideas.
### EXPANSION
*Q4. 2023* | BRINGING THE COMMUNITIES TOGETHER.
* Allowing creators to monetize their creation through the Sougen marketplace.
* Microverse building tools.
* Avatar building tools.
### DISRUPTION
*NEXT* | GIVING LIFE TO OUR FULL VISION OF THE METAVERSE.
* More blockchains Interoperability
* Concert and event-building tools.
* Advanced game-building tools.
* Play to earn mechanism.
* New worlds to come.
* Virtual working and collaborating space
* And much more...
# Team
Crafting the Metaverse for the long run.
Sougen is made by Utsubo株式会社 ([www.utsubo.co](https://utsubo.co)), an award-winning, Japan-based company specialized in Web3 and 3D experiences.
While our talented team focuses on building the Metaverse, our company provides financial security ensuring long-term commitment to the project.
The strategic location of our company and our multicultural team offer Sougen unique opportunities in the Asian, American, and European markets.
Sougen is initiated by:
**Lecamus Jocelyn** - Co-funder CEO\
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocelynlecamus/) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Ocelyn)
**Rohlinger Renaud** - Co-funder CTO\
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaudrohlinger/) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/onirenaud)
Utsubo contributes to the open-source community by crafting tools that are used by other developers and agencies around the world.
[Our Github](https://github.com/utsuboco)
# Official links
Beware of scammers, always refer to official Sougen social network accounts and websites.
Website: \
Metaverse: Coming soon
### Social Network
Discord: [https://discord.gg/sougen ]()\
Twitter: \
Twitter (日本語): \
Telegram: \
Medium: [https://medium.com/@sougenco ]()\
Instagram:
# Disclaimer
The information in this White Paper are subject to change or update and should not be construed as a commitment, promise, or guarantee by Sougen or any other individual or organization mentioned in this white paper relating to the future availability of services related to the use of the tokens or their future performance or value.
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