“A Message from Our Sponsors”:

Japan Takes Over the Metaverse (Again)

by Pan Diman

A booth provided by upd8 for Virtual Market 2.

As promised earlier, from March 8th to 10th, Japanese community held an exhibition called “Virtual Market 2”, during which 12 different worlds were shown to VRChat, only one of which was public during this period.

During the event, users were able to visit booths with various items, including but not limited to prefabs, models, Unity and Blender tools, etc., presented in VRChat.

Apparently, it seems that Virtual Market was advertised in the East, and new users from Asia started to join VRChat. According to the info on their website, Virtual Market 2 was sponsored by 18 different companies, including Avex, Fontworks, Ambr, Digital Motion, upd8, Mouse Computer Corporation, Seven & I Holdings, and many more.

Right now, there is no way of viewing content in the same worlds Virtual Market used during the public exhibition in VRChat, but, hopefully, they will be back next time.