Hat tip to Rick for sending in this incredible VR – I need to broker these!
Investors are spending real money to buy land in a new city that only exists in virtual reality. Buyers can build whatever they want on their plots in Decentraland. Many hope to make a profit trading goods and services in the virtual world’s own crypto currency. But will Decentraland be an online utopia or a cyber slum?
Decentraland is really late to the game. Second Life has been trying for over a decade to convince adults that its VR world is more than an elaborate video game:
https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/23/new-virtual-world-sansar-is-ready-to-pick-up-where-second-life-left-off
But Second Life’s 800K users can’t hold a candle to Minecraft’s 74 million.