Queens of the Metaverse: The First-Ever Combined Truth Drag Display

Queens of the Metaverse: The First-Ever Combined Truth Drag Display

The primary-ever combined actuality drag style display, Queens of the Metaverse, gives a glimpse into how the LGBTQ+ inventive group is the usage of our applied sciences to encourage a brand new wave of advent in drag style.

From the Metaverse to the Runway

On the immersive runway display in London, 3 metaverse-inspired drag seems designed the usage of digital actuality (VR) and augmented actuality (AR) applied sciences have been published by way of Blu Hydrangea, the winner of “RuPaul’s Drag Race: UK vs. The Global,” Tia Kofi, a pop track artist and superstar of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 2, and Adam All, a world-renowned drag king.

The 3 drag acts teamed up with 3 aspiring designers from the LGBTQ+ group on a first-of-its-kind design procedure. Virtual style designers Nwora Emenike, Sal Mohammed and Christie Lau used digital design era, virtual avatars and Horizon Workrooms to design 3 outfits that have been then made as bodily clothes.

The clothes have been offered at the VR runway to an target audience of fan-favourite British drag queens, LGBTQ+ creatives and virtual creators, together with the brand new solid of “Ru Paul’s Drag Race,” showcasing the ability of collaboration within the metaverse. 

Each and every outfit additionally featured an alternative model that got here to existence thru dynamic AR filters.

The metaverse will make our drag larger and higher. Even supposing the metaverse is within the early phases of building, the applied sciences in the back of it are already bringing thrilling new techniques for the drag group and LGBTQ+ creatives to precise themselves and experiment. I will be able to simplest believe how a lot additional digital actuality would have taken my creativity when I used to be more youthful than hiding with bin-bags and sharpies in my rest room.” 

– Blu Hydrangea, winner of “RuPaul’s Drag Race: UK vs. The Global

Giving Creators New Tactics to Design and Collaborate

The drag group has an immense presence on our platforms. Our knowledge displays that #DragQueen ranks within the best 1% of Instagram hashtags adopted by way of folks in the UK. Queens of the Metaverse champions self-expression, social connection, and visibility for queer communities within the digital international simply up to within the bodily international. 

‘’Ingenious communities will assist in making the metaverse inclusive and provoking – with the applied sciences underpinning it serving to creatives conquer one of the crucial obstacles that would possibly exist within the bodily international, like get admission to to studio house and uncooked fabrics. Meta’s Queens of the metaverse is a party of the way communities can push the bounds of creativity and social connection bodily and on-line.’’

– Ineke Paulsen, Meta’s Director of EMEA Advertising and marketing


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