Details of "Virtual Market 2023 Real in Shibuhara" Including Contents For Each Venue
HIKKY( Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Yasushi Funakoshi) will hold "Virtual Market 2023 Real in Shibuhara" (also known as "VketReal") as a real event of "Virtual Market", the world's largest metaverse event, which has received Guinness World Record™, for two days from Saturday, December 16 to Sunday, December 17, 2023. The event will be held over two days from December 16 (Sat.) to 17 (Sun.), 2023. The following is the second details of the contents to be implemented at the event.
Virtual Market 2023 Real in Shibuhara official website: https://event.vket.com/2023Winter/real
Details of contents at 5 venues
VketReal is a real event that will be held at five venues in the Shibuya and Harajuku areas of Tokyo. Here are the main contents of each venue.
・Himmelbrau Harajuku
At the Himmelbrau Harajuku venue, themed "Kawaii Culture," there will be a general service event counter where visitors can pick up mystery-solving game kits and gifts for trash pickup projects, a message board to preserve visitors' memories, free distribution of colorful cotton candy, and other contents as well as corporate booths The event will be held at the Harajuku Station. The venue is located right next to the Takeshita exit of Harajuku Station, so we recommend starting your VketReal tour from here.
Details of corporate exhibitors' booths
◆Sony Corporation
This video introduces the new features of Sony's mobile motion capture "mocopi™" updated for VR users.
Also, using the "ELF-SR2," a spatial reproduction display that enables stereoscopic experience with the naked eye, the official character Vket-chan 1 of the Virtual Market created by HIKKY and "Multi-Lingual International Vket-chan 1," who can speak not only in Japanese but also in various other languages. Vket-chan 1, the official character of the virtual market created by HIKKY. Please enjoy conversations with the AI character on the screen in various languages.
In addition to Himmelblau Harajuku, "Multi-Lingual International Vket-Chan No. 1" will appear at five other locations: Wharf Harajuku, Anon Harajuku, Shibuya Sakura Stage, and Lad's GARAGE Shibuya, the official offline meeting place.
◆Belc Corporation
Belc supermarket, a well-known VR venue, will exhibit a booth at a real venue as well! Finally, you will be able to ride in a shopping cart, which was said to be "absolutely prohibited in real life"...? (*Racing is not allowed.) In addition, there will be a raffle to win gorgeous prizes such as Belc's original goods.
The Belc mascot character will also make appearances at Wharf Harajuku and Shibuya Sakura Stage! We are planning to hold a series of events in conjunction with the Shibuya and Harajuku venues, so please be sure to visit the Belc booths at all the venues.
Will the "rideable shopping cart" familiar in VR appear in real life?
◆Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc. Radio Charity Musicthon
Donation boxes will be set up for the "49th Radio Charity Musicthon," a Nippon Broadcasting System charity campaign to install "sound-emitting traffic lights" so that the visually impaired can walk the streets with ease. The first 1,000 people to participate in this campaign will receive an original Radio Charity Musicthon sticker.
・Wharf Harajuku
The "pop culture" themed Wharf Harajuku venue will feature a real goods sales corner and corporate booths on the 1st floor, and a parareal creator area on the B1 floor, where more than 10 creators will exhibit their booths each day for two days.
Details of corporate exhibitors' booths
◆Aurora Co.
Aurora will be exhibiting at VketReal for the first time, and will be offering original goods and logos of the cats that appear in the mystery-solving game "Shibuhara Neko Atsume: Mystery Solving Scouting Mission" for two days only. The products include short-sleeved T-shirts, kids' T-shirts, and kids' T-shirts. There are a total of five types of products: short-sleeved T-shirts, kids' short-sleeved T-shirts, sweatshirts, and eco bags (large and small)! Use the crimping machine to produce your favorite cats' products on the spot!
◆Kaede Labo
Exhibiting a booth to promote KaedeLabo, a service that allows visitors to create original photo items using photo data taken in social VR and metaverse space. Acrylic photo panels and original photo boards, which are KaedeLab products, will be on display. Please come and see KaedeLabo items that can be used as a topic of conversation with friends at offline meetings, bringing out photos filled with many memories into the real world.
Parareal Creator Area in Wharf Harajuku
Parareal creators who are active in both real and virtual worlds will exhibit their booths. 15 booths on the 16th and 13 booths on the 17th. Please come and enjoy their parareal works.
Exhibition hours: 11:00-18:00 on both December 16 and 17
Selling Vket Original Real Goods!
We will set up a corner to sell a limited amount of original real goods from the Virtual Market. Some items were so popular last time that they were sold out, so be sure to get them as soon as possible!
*Only cashless payment is accepted, no cash payment.
・Annon Harajuku
The theme of the event will be "Creator Culture", and the Anon Harajuku venue will feature booths of parareal creators as well as a special photo spot with VketReal wrapping.
Parareal Creator Area in Anon Harajuku
Parareal creators who are active in both real and virtual worlds will be exhibiting their booths! The parareal creators' area was so popular that admission was restricted last time, and we hope you will enjoy it to the fullest this time as well.
Exhibition hours: 11:00-18:00 on both December 16 and 17
・SHIBUYA109 Shibuya Store Event Space
At the SHIBUYA109 in-store event space under the theme of "Next Culture," a special Christmas version of "AVATAR MEETS," which was very popular among foreigners and children alike at the previous event in Akihabara, will make its debut! When you stand in front of the oversized monitor installed at the venue, an avatar linked to your real-life movements is displayed in the virtual venue, and you can interact with other avatars in the virtual venue. Please come and experience the latest in metaverse communication that connects the real and virtual worlds.
・Shibuya Sakura Stage
The Shibuya Sakura Stage, themed "Future Culture," will feature a special stage event as well as corporate booths and content created in collaboration with creators.
Details of corporate exhibitors' booths
◆UUUM Corporation
UUUM Corporation will have a booth at VketReal! UUUM creators Koichi, Nobaman, and Hajimemashite Matsuo will be selling their real goods at the booth!
UUUM Creator's Hand-Over Selling Event 2days.
Part 1: 13:00-14:30 / Part 2: 15:30-17:00
*Numbered tickets distributed from 11:00 on the day of the event are required to attend the sales event. (Numbered tickets for Nobaman merchandise will only be distributed from 10:15 a.m. on 16 (Sat.).
*Numbered tickets are limited, and distribution may end early.
*Even if you have a numbered ticket, there is a possibility that the merchandise may sell out depending on the order and sales.
◆Disney Plus "Wonder Hutch -The Island of Flying Dragons
Disney Plus will present an original fantasy adventure blockbuster "Wonder Hutch -The Island of the Flying Dragon", which depicts two worlds in "live-action" and "animation"! In the booth that recreates the world of the film, there will be a corner where visitors can experience the VR venue with HMDs and costumes that were actually used in the drama will be on display.
◆Suntory Limited
Suntory Limited will be exhibiting at VketReal for the first time! At the Shibuya Sakura Stage booth, cosplayers will be dressed up as the grown-up "Vket-san" and will be handing out free All Free drinks! Free All-Free drinks will be distributed! Free All Free drinks will also be distributed at Lad's GARAGE Shibuya and The Public stand Shibuya, the official offline meeting venues.
*Free All Free drinks will be distributed only to those who are 20 years old or older.
"Akagamin x Shibuhara AR Stamp Rally" will be held!
VketReal is collaborating with "Akagamin" members, led by "Akagami no Tomo", a very popular game player with over 2 million YouTube channel subscriptions, to hold the "Akagamin x Shibuhara AR Stamp Rally"! Take pictures of the "Akagamin" members' panels at Himmelblau Harajuku, Wharf Harajuku, Anon Harajuku, and Shibuya Sakura Stage, and collect AR stamps! If you collect all the stamps, you will receive a Vket original Akamimin sticker. Please take a trip around the streets of Shibuya and Harajuku with your smartphone in hand and get the Akagamin sticker that you can only get here!
*The dedicated application "ARTANA" is required to participate in the AR Stamp Rally.
Vket×HUB Collaboration Cafe will be held again!
The "Vket x HUB Collaboration Cafe," which was a great success at the last Vket real event, will be held again this time!
The "Vket x HUB Collaboration Cafe", which was a great success at the last Vket Real, will be held again this time! The Virtual Market original drinks will be on sale again this year. One Virtual Market original coaster will be randomly attached to each order of the collaboration drink. Some drinks are only available at the two stores, so please visit both stores and try to complete your order!
■Virtual Market x Shibuya HUB Collaboration Drink Menu
Light Bake Failure Drink (Alcohol) ・・・・850 yen (tax included)
Shibuya HUB collaboration drink menu Palipi gun drink (alcohol) ・・・・850 yen (tax included)
Battery for the brain (alcoholic) ・・・・850 yen (tax included)
VeryPoor drink (non-alcoholic) ・・・・750 yen (tax included)
Buiket drink (non-alcoholic)・・・・750 yen (tax included) (Shibuya store only)
Buoy Earl Grey (non-alcoholic)・・・・750 yen (tax included) (Shibuya Store #3 only)
*The coaster will be limited in quantity and will be discontinued as soon as it is gone.
*Customers under 20 years old must be accompanied by a parent or guardian (first degree of kinship) to enter the cafe.
*We may ask for your photo ID to verify your age when you enter the cafe.
HIKKY collaborates with a Harajuku vocational school on an industry-academia project!
HIKKY's creative director, Mika Sawae, will conduct an industry-academia collaboration project in collaboration with Belle Epoque College of Beauty and Fashion, located in Harajuku, Tokyo, where she will teach AI-based avatar costume design and creation to students majoring in fashion at Belle Epoque College of Beauty and Fashion. Avatars wearing the costumes created by the students in the class will be displayed at AVATAR MEETS. In addition, VRHMD decorated by students majoring in nail art will be displayed at the HIKKY booth in Himmelbrau Harajuku! Please come and see the HMDs that are full of Harajuku cuteness.
The "VketReal Winter Town Walking Extra Big Present Campaign" is coming!!
Vket presents an early Christmas present to all visitors! A city-walking campaign will be held with the cooperation of numerous sponsors, where you can win the latest AR glasses, high-end gaming chairs, wireless headsets, and many other superb gifts!
By walking around the VketReal venues and scanning the QR codes on the posters displayed at each venue, you can enter this campaign. The more venues you visit, the more gorgeous prizes you will be able to apply for! Please visit all VketReal venues and get the gorgeous prizes!
*Registration to My Vket (https://vket.com/ ) is required to participate in this campaign.
"Vket Walk" is a new project that allows people to jump out into the real world in their virtual form!
The "Vket Walk" is a new project in which a virtual person is shown on a monitor with a real person in front of and behind him or her, and the virtual person walks around the city under the direction of the real person! This is a new form of communication that allows people to walk around the city in the virtual world as if they were participating in a real event, and also allows mutual communication between the real and virtual people.
＜"Vket Walk" is now accepting participants! >
We are looking for people who can participate in the Vket Walk! We are looking for people who can participate remotely from the virtual side and people who can actually walk around Shibuya and Harajuku carrying a walker! We are looking forward to receiving many applications.
Application form: https://forms.gle/t3bks7zfqBRVfga49 (Deadline: Thursday, December 13, 23:59)
Virtual Market 2023 Real in Shibuhara" is a new form of real metaverse event that connects the virtual and real worlds and fuses the latest XR technology with the culture of Shibuya and Harajuku. Please look forward to the event on December 16 and 17.
Virtual Market 2023 Real in Shibuhara Overview
Name | Virtual Market 2023 Real in Shibuhara |
Opening period | December 16 (Saturday) to December 17 (Sunday), 2023 |
Opening Hours | 10:00〜19:00 |
Venue | 1) Himmelblau Harajuku (1-19-19 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) 2) Wharf Harajuku (1-9-1 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) 3) UNKNOWN HARAJUKU (6-5-10 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) (4) SHIBUYA109 Shibuya store event space (2-29-1 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) (5) Shibuya Sakura Stage (1-1 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) Collaboration contents will also be held at other stores in the Shibuya and Harajuku areas. |
Entrance fee | Free of charge |
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About the Virtual Market (also known as Vket)
This year marks the fifth anniversary and eleventh time the event has been held, and is one of the world's largest metaverse events where people can buy and sell 3D items such as avatars and real products such as clothes, PCs, food, and drink at venues in the metaverse. The event has been held since 2018 and is a pioneering event in the Metaverse, boasting over 1.2 million visitors from around the world and holding the Guinness World Record™*. In addition to buying and selling products, the event also offers "experiences" unique to the Metaverse, such as riding rides, receiving customer service, and participating in live music performances at the venue. Visitors can also enjoy voice communication with each other, giving them a realistic feeling as if they were touring the city together in the real world.
Virtual Market started as a place to buy and sell 3D data products between individuals, but in recent years, major companies that want to enter the metaverse business have expanded the sale of real products, creating new possibilities for VR commerce.
*Recognized by Guinness World Records™ as the largest number of booths at a virtual reality market event.
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