What is Virtual Market? It's the largest market festival virtual reality has to offer, where users can buy and sell 3D items/avatars, as well as real-world products like food, clothing, and PCs. The event sees over a million visitors from around the world and even holds multiple Guinness World Records™.
The festival will showcase a variety of items such as avatars and 3D items tailored for the VR space.
VR headset is not necessary. You can access the virtual venues from anywhere with your PC.
VR-related companies, Vtuber related companies, and companies from many industries including the gaming industry exhibit in this event. This is an opportunity to come into contact with this new market.
The Virtual Market aims to “develop and enrich the virtual space” by holding its virtual event. It will continue to be an “opportunity” to increase people’s standard of living by creating an economic sphere in virtual space.
Virtual Market has the Idea and the Function.
The idea of the Virtual Market is “to enrich the VR world and enable people to live virtually.”
By holding a Virtual Market, many 3D models will expand into the virtual world, many people will visit the virtual space, and an economic sphere will be built along with them.
By creating an economy in virtual space that is so massive that it rivals the physical world, virtual space becomes Another Reality.
People would be able to live freely in one physical reality and a myriad of virtual reality, in places, appearances, and jobs of their choice.
The role of the Virtual Market is “opportunity”.
By holding a Virtual Market, creators will be able to work under a “deadline”. This improves their motivation to create their own work and provides an opportunity to present their works.
Virtual Market visitors will have the opportunity to see their favorite works and meet creators not previously recognized.
For corporations, exhibiting in Virtual Market with a visitor base of a million in the uncharted territory of the virtual world provides an opportunity to experiment with what value they can provide in the next generation of the Internet.
Each time the Virtual Market is held, one of the world’s largest market festivals, more and more people come into contact with the virtual world. We hope that one day, everyone can move between the virtual and the real space as a matter of course.
Schedule：12/3/2022 - 12/18/2022 (16 Days)
How to join：Please check our
Access page.
How to join(For the individual exhibition)：Please check our
Exhibition Guideline.
How to join(For the corporate exhibition)：Please check our
Past Cases of Company Exhibition.
Whether it's virtual worlds, 3D modeling, or even journeys of life.
All things start from (0,0,0)： The Point of Origin.
Why don't we retrace our steps in these drastically changing times and remember the beginner's spirits we started off with?
Virtual Market's Point of Origin is August 26th of 2018.
Our (0,0,0) was the passion to create opportunities for new encounters,
one between people and creativity, in both virtual and real worlds.
The expectation for this side of the world, or “The Metaverse” is growing more than ever before.
And we return to our roots once again to continue this wish of contributing growth to the virtual world,
beginning Virtual Market's journey anew.
For you, what was your Point of Origin?
What have you discovered in your journey so far?
Today is always the best day to mark a fresh start in your journey.
Welcome to the Point of Origin.
Now, let's take this first step once again, together.
Date ：2022 8/13～2022 8/28 (16 Days)
Exhibitors：Around 540 groups
Sponsors：Around 60 Companies
Date ：2021 12/4～2021 12/19 (15 Days)
Exhibitors：Around 601 groups
Sponsors：Around 80 Companies
This Summer, 2021!
Virtual Market 6 is making a splash!
The theme is “World Festi-VR.”
A place home to every festival imaginable.
The stage is set. Witness: “Earth, Intertwined”
The festivals in this virtual world are sure to make your summer unforgettable.
Event Period：8/14/2021 - 8/28/2021 (14 Days)
Exhibitors：[Vket6] Around 201 groups [VketMall Proto] Around 256 people
Sponsors：Around 61 Companies
In a virtual world, we can meet face to face with people from anywhere and visit any place in an instant.
The virtual world is a world of the essence as if it has no concept of distance.The place I’ve never been. people I’ve never met.There are always new encounters right next to us. All we need is a chance to take a step forward.
Virtual Market 5 will be held on a global stage.Now, let’s go to the other side.
Date ：2020 12/19～2021 1/10 (24 Days)
Exhibitors：Around 1,100 groups
Sponsors：Around 70 Companies
With the advancements in VR/AR along with IoT and 5G network connections, the world we live in will become more “Online” than ever before.A society where the physical world and the virtual world co-exists parallelly and people hopping from world to world. Such “Parareal World” might not be too far away.
The world of Virtual Market 4 you see through your VR headset, will be a “Parareal” one, where things might be a little different from what you know.Let us begin our journey to the future, starting from the capital of Japan, Tokyo, or how it’s represented in the virtual world in our “Parareal Tokyo.”
Event Period：4/29/2019 - 5/10/2019 (12 Days)
Exhibitors：Around 1,100 groups
Sponsors：Around 40 Companies
“Hey, I’ve heard there’re folks living inside Virtual Reality”
Going by names we weren’t born with, with 3D models as our flesh. Meeting people, playing, working, or even sleeping inside cyberspace.
When you hear that, you might think we’re talking about a science fiction novel or a movie.But actually, it’s something that’s happening “for real.”
Those people are already among us, and I too, am one of the “Citizens of Virtual Reality.”
In the near future, people will spend their day inside the virtual world with their own names, body, and connections to society. VR will go beyond the realm of “tech gizmos” and “game devices,” and it will become our means to access an “Another reality.”
I still remember the first time I’ve put on my VR headset, and feeling the heartbeat in another body of mine, along with everyone living in the virtual world.
The future where we do what we love, in a place where we want to be, with a body we want to dress in, the future where we “Live the Virtual Life,” is right around the corner.
Here’s hoping what you experience in Virtual Market is a wonderful one, one which each of us will feel the “Future” we imagine in our hearts.
Event Period：3/8/2019 - 3/10/2019 (3 Days)
Exhibitors：Around 400 groups
Sponsors：Around 20 Companies
Event Period：8/26/2018 (1 Day)
Exhibitors：Around 80 groups
Sponsors：2 Companies
