Digital Culinary
Introduction
Online restaurants menus are a thing today. But have you ever heard about augmented menus or about a digital tour of a restaurant?
Here’s how the Virtualia ecosystem is all set to impact the culinary field.
Toward a digital culinary art movement?
A new marketing approach for restaurant owners
Since 2021, we are working with restaurants to not only virtualize their table and environment but to evangelize them with the concept of augmented menus.
These augmented menus can be printed and available to the client’s mobile screen by scanning a QR code. Thanks to the pandemic, the use of QR codes has increased.
The menu comes with AR features to preview meals, dishes, desserts, and cocktails.
We also provide virtual website services to integrate our Virtualia Map and to update their website with a virtual tour for online clients.
Furthermore, we even provide all the content for online booking management systems and delivery apps to show AR and VR versions of their meal.
While 3D services are interesting for marketing, we are pushing for a new art market development.
After the food porn movement seen on social network platforms, we are trying to promote high-quality meals to the art level as we feel that they deserve their own status.
While restaurant chefs often tell us that taste is more important and that they want to keep the surprise to their client coming to their restaurant, we believe that it could also attract a new market niche from the youngest generation. However, not all Michelin stars are ready for this.
After all, a paradigm shift takes time to digest.
Presenting our digital culinary art NFT services
New art for high-quality restaurant chefs
Since the end of 2021, we approached several star restaurants with this new concept.
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We are also building a portfolio of digital culinary NFTs with chefs, especially Michelin star restaurants.
This is the final output of a very long process.
While the whole process is being automated and under patent writing, you must get to the depth of the work for both sides. It demands a creative visual effort for the chef and his/her team as we have specific constraints relative to what can be textured.
For us, it included high-quality cameras, picture post-production, one by one, hundreds of them, a whole setup, and software modeling to adjust for errors.
After, that, we mint it with Nifty Gateway to release this unique gem.
Our future collection will be released on the Virtualia NFT marketplace but for now, you can support us by buying copies of the digital culinary art designed by Roberto Fani’s team[2].
Conclusion
Although chefs are reluctant to accept this paradigm shift to digital culinary, but with time, many of them will be comfortable with this new technology.
If you are a restaurant owner, reach out to the Virtualia 3D design team to learn more.
[1] 50% of the sale will go to Roberto Fani and 50% to funding our Virtualia ecosystem
[2] Visit ristorantefani.lu/en and book a table
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2- Read our first introductory article, our second article on the spirit of the Virtualia ecosystem, and the third on our vision of the future facing technological challenges with Exascale supercomputers, AI-human like interactivity, nanotechnology and 3D printing, and blockchain P2P payment. The fourth article is about the future of the ecosystem by 2030.
3- Visit our company website at https://virtualia.ai to know more about what we are doing at Virtualia Interactive Technologies and understand better how 3DVRAR applications can have major impact on both the real and virtual economy.
4- Visit our journey in the Metaverse, hybrid and multiverse worlds at https://virtualiaworlds.com
5- Visit our virtual shopping platform at https://virtualia.shop and follow our journey constructing the future of e-commerce!
6- Visit our 3D design architecture company working on the next big thing in realtech with AI and automated 3D immersive experience at https://virtualytics.design.
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