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Highlights:
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ChatGPT & AI occupy virtual worlds incl. The Sandbox & WEOM
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Meta “winds down” support for NFTs
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Decentraland launches its Metaverse Fashion Week Marketplace
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Builder contests in Decentraland & The Sandbox
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Project updates at Spatial, Voxels & BYOPills…&
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Lego and Epic Games team up to build the Legoverse
💹 MARKET DATA
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🗞️ MARKET NEWS
POKEMON — Mar 13: Pokemon fans express concern after the company listed a job for someone with NFT and blockchain expertise. In 2019, PokemonGo’s studio boss called the Metaverse a “dystopian nightmare”.
META — Mar 14: Having shut down its stablecoin project in Jan, Meta now announced it is “winding down” support for NFTs to focus on “other ways to support creators, people and business”. CoinMarketCap calls it a “huge blow” for the sector; OneLand thinks otherwise.
CHAT GPT — Mar 15: OpenAI launched ChatGPT4, causing a whirlwind of interest, shock and awe across the tech, incl. Web3 and virtual worlds. Discord is already integrating AI, and now so are Web3 metaverses like The Sandbox and (Metaverse for Humanity) WEOM.
GEM TOOLS — Mar 15: Gem Tools launched its Beta version of an AI NFT valuation tool.
GAMES DEVELOPER CONFERENCE - Upcoming - Mar 20-24: Blockchain games incl. Spatial, Splinterlands and Upland will join the gaming world at the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco.
🌄 SALES & MINTS
DECENTRALAND - Ongoing: MVFW Marketplace is selling wearables and emotes for the upcoming Metaverse Fashion Week, Mar 28–31.
UPLAND - TBC: An Indiana-Jones style Lost Property Sale is about to kick off in San Francisco, NYC & Chicago. But when?? & where?? Noone knows!
Secret maps of the 3 cities will reveal lost properties hiding right under your nose. Stay on your toes to beat other property hunters to the mint!
VOXELS — Mar 15: Voxels launched their new Buy page (& dropped a reminder of some of the oldest properties for sale). A Primary Sales section will be added soon.
Check out: Waterfront parcels incl. NFTs, wearables & a lot of metahistory for 0.42 ETH each
New parcels from designer MKdragon.eth on Architect Island
& more:
METARESIDENCE ONE — Mar 16: Meta-real mansion MetaResidence One, — located IRL in Miami, Florida & in The Sandbox — held its first “Open House in the Metaverse”. Interested parties will need to stay tuned for the auction’s official start time, sometime in Mar or Apr.
🎪🏅🎁 EVENTS, CONTESTS & GIVEAWAYS
DECENTRALAND — ends Mar 27: Create a Mythological Creature in the 15th DCL Builders Contest by grantees SandStorm. $2550 USDC up for grabs.
Mar 16: Teleperformance HQ held a 24hr launch event feat. games, wearables, guest speeches and music from DJs Harrison First and New Girl.
Mar 19: The website listing the winners of every category in the recent DCL Awards went live.
Upcoming — Mar 28–31: Metaverse Fashion Week 2023 schedule preview:
THE SANDBOX — Mar 13–26: St Patrick’s Vox Edit Contest. Win from a prize pool of 20k $SAND.
Mar 17–28: Join quests, mint NFTs, listen to music, and immerse in Irish culture at The Irish Shebeen, the first Irish pub in the Metaverse.
THE SANDBOX <> NON-FUNGIBLE CONFERENCE (LISBON) — Upcoming — Jun 7–9: As co-editors of the NFC main event and (barefoot daytime beach) Closing Party, The Sandbox is giving away 50 AL spots at what looks like a 95% discount.
UPLAND — Mar 17: General Mort and X1TheGamer live-streamed the SemiFinal & Final round of Upland’s first-ever Racing event The Shamrock Showdown.
ILLUVIUM — Mar 16: The Celebrity D1SK Battle tournament kicked off, with $250 per battle donated to Gamers Outreach. Obtain your Illuvitars D1SK in the ongoing Wave 1 sale.
🔈 Catch up on this week’s TWITTER SPACES, PROJECT STREAMS & INTERVIEWS:
DECENTRALAND: WearableWednesday — Designers of MVFW23
Technical AMA — Worlds with Decentraland Foundation
CIVITAS: Web3 gaming Roundtable feat. Goons of Balatroon, Shatterpoint, War Legends
NFT WORLDS: Pre-GDC 2023 Roundtable
OTHERSIDE: Ready for the 2nd Trip! hosted by OtherSpace
SOMNIUM SPACE: EdTech Experience @ISG Metaverse Lobby Parcel #2588
THE SANDBOX:
Mon: VoxEdit Monday with @Pandapops7 & @Veepyre
Wed: Exploring The Sandbox Metaverse with @KamiSawZe & @LukusIsRight
Thu: March Festival with @Pandapops7 & @Veepyre
Sat: The Saturday Stream with @KamiSawZe & @LukusIsRight
🛠️ PROJECT UPDATES
SPATIAL — Mar 14: The team dropped a sneak peak of mini-games HyperJump (by Renostudio & AlanSpatial) and The Nexus Grove (by Metaverse Josh).
Mar 16: Spatial launched the new Spatial toolkit powered by UnityGames.
Spatial will appear at the Games Developer Conference (Expo Hall, Booth S1450), Mar 20–24 in San Francisco (see Market News, above), joining a Zero Infrastructure Gaming panel on the 24th.
BYOPILLS — Mar 15: The BYOPIlls Racer is set for release next month. At the time of this Tweet, 80 out of 150 BYOCrafts were listed.
DECENTRALAND — Mar 15: The Metaverse Fashion Week 2023 Marketplace went live. Landworks is offering parcels to rent for the festival.
YUGA LABS — Mar 15: The Summoning, which allows eligible players of the recently finished Dookey Dash game to burn their Sewer Pass in return for a mysterious power source, kicked off.
METAFAB — Mar 18: NFT Worlds key tech partner MetaFab, with 500 active blockchain games in development, launched its beta Developer Dashboard.
👬 PARTNERSHIPS
THE SANDBOX <> SCENARIO — Mar 11: The Sandbox opened an AL for creators to test Scenario’s AI generators and offer feedback as part of its partnership with the GenAI project. For more info on how TSB plans to integrate AI, read on.
THE SANDBOX <> CHARLES & KEITH HAUS — Mar 14: Charles & Keith Fashion Haus created a fashion experience in The Sandbox feat. quests and a parkour challenge.
LEGO <> EPIC GAMES — Mar 14: Lego is set to launch a Metaverse initiative in collaboration with gaming engine Epic Games who will use its Unreal Engine to build the Lego Metaverse.
POLYGON <> SALESFORCE — Mar 15: Polygon teamed up with CRM software firm Salesforce to create a NFT-based loyalty program.
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