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BBC Studios partners with Reality+ and The Sandbox to create immersive metaverse experiences based on iconic BBC brands like Doctor Who and Top Gear.
The Deets
• This partnership marks BBC's first presence in the metaverse.
• Reality+, a web3 specialist agency, facilitates BBC Studios' transition to Web3.
• The venture will include a dedicated BBC events space within The Sandbox.
The Bulk
BBC Studios is debuting in the metaverse through a strategic partnership with Reality+ and The Sandbox. This collaboration will manifest in immersive, interactive experiences themed around globally loved BBC brands Doctor Who and Top Gear.
Reality+, a dedicated web3 agency, is helping BBC Studios navigate its entry into Web3. Having previously partnered with BBC Studios for the Doctor Who: Worlds Apart digital trading card game, Reality+ is extending its support to explore the limitless opportunities within The Sandbox Platform.
The project is not just focused on entertainment but also on sustainability. With Offsetra and Nori onboard for carbon offsetting and WeForest for reforestation efforts, this venture will ensure that the digital transformation aligns with global environmental efforts.
📊 By the Numbers
The utility token for The Sandbox, $SAND, is up 4.90% over the last 24 hours to $0.516.
🎤 Founder Feedback
While the metaverse is still in its infancy, it may shape how we consume and experience entertainment in the future and I'm looking forward to seeing how fans interact with our brands in this space.Nicki Sheard, President of Brands & Licensing, BBC Studios
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The Sandbox joins forces with iconic hospitality company Cipriani, introducing immersive Italian luxury experiences into the metaverse.
The Deets
- The collaboration entails a virtual Venice with interactive features such as a masquerade ball, fashion shows, and concerts.
- The partnership also includes a recreation of the famous Cipriani Wall Street Ballroom for hosting cultural events.
- Cipriani’s LAND will be situated in The Sandbox's trendy Galleria neighborhood, launched in December 2022
- A tribute to the legendary Harry’s Bar, known for the original Bellini cocktail, forms part of the metaverse experience
The Bulk
The Sandbox expands its immersive landscape by partnering with Cipriani, a global beacon of Italian luxury and hospitality. In this new venture, players will have the opportunity to stroll through the virtual streets of Venice, interact with the Cipriani family, and partake in various cultural events.
The Cipriani experience will find its home in the Galleria neighborhood of The Sandbox map, a sector built around fashion, media, and hospitality brands. In line with the upscale aura of the neighborhood, the Cipriani experience will strive to offer memorable virtual encounters to its visitors.
A standout feature of this collaboration will be a tribute to Harry’s Bar, the legendary Venetian watering hole known since the 1930s as a meeting place for artists, royalty, and cocktail enthusiasts. Players visiting virtual Venice will be welcomed with a hint of time travel, transporting them back to the bar's glory days.
🎤 Founder Feedback
We're delighted to bring iconic Italian history into The Sandbox to further enrich our players' experiences. In designing a metaverse for such a diverse audience, we have the unique opportunity to represent nationalities and cultures from around the world.Sebastien Borget, COO and Co-Founder of The Sandbox
🖼️ The Big Picture
As metaverse platforms like The Sandbox continue to forge partnerships with real-world brands like Cipriani, they create opportunities for players to explore, learn, and connect with diverse cultures and experiences. These collaborations could redefine the boundaries of online gaming, leading to a new era of interactive, immersive, and culturally rich virtual experiences.
📊 By The Numbers
The utility token for The Sandbox, $SAND, is trading at $0.4912, down 17.5% over 30 days.
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The Sandbox is hosting its May Festival, featuring a mix of new and fan-favorite experiences, plus lucrative rewards for participants.
The Deets
- May Festival launched on May 11 with over 800 quests across 74 experiences, ends on June 12.
- Rewards for LAND and Avatar owners include exclusive prize pools totaling 700,000 $SAND.
- Players can earn memorabilia, mystery boxes, and coveted NFTs.
- Events dedicated to past and new avatar collections, like Rabbids, Hell’s Kitchen, Madballs, and Paris Hilton, each come with their own $SAND prize pools.
The Bulk
The Sandbox's May Festival is a celebration of the old and the new. Alongside new experiences for players to enjoy, the festival is bringing back popular games from 2022 and 2023, allowing players to revisit old quests and challenges with newfound skills and abilities.
To increase the excitement, The Sandbox has announced a variety of rewards for participants. LAND and Avatar owners who complete 200 quests can earn from exclusive prize pools, with 350,000 $SAND reserved for each category.
The May Festival also includes a challenge open to all, with rewards like memorabilia, mystery boxes, and special NFTs. The mystery boxes could contain premium Land, packs of $SAND, or a unique NFT, giving players more reasons to join in the festival fun.
❗Why It Matters
The Sandbox's May Festival not only provides players with exciting experiences and rewards but also introduces a unique value proposition for LAND holders. By creating exclusive prize pools for LAND owners, The Sandbox is incentivizing LAND ownership and enhancing its utility within the metaverse.
📊 By the Numbers
The rewards pool includes a total of 1 million $SAND, approximately $500,000.
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Those interested in participating in the May Festival can do so here.
The Sandbox has partnered with Singapore-based web3 company Affyn to develop first-of-its-kind, community-focused interoperable metaverse experiences.
The Deets
- The Sandbox and Affyn share a vision for an open metaverse
- Partnership aims to provide immersive and interactive experiences
The Details
The Sandbox, a popular blockchain-based virtual world platform, and Affyn, a Singapore-based Web3 company, have joined forces to create an open metaverse that brings together creators, collaborators, and virtual world enthusiasts. This partnership is driven by the shared belief in the potential of an open, decentralized metaverse.
The two companies plan to provide users with more immersive and interactive experiences by integrating geolocation and augmented reality capabilities. By exploring interoperability within the open metaverse, they hope to create a seamless experience across different platforms and communities.
Both companies have a common goal of achieving a new era of interoperability in the blockchain gaming and virtual world space. As they work together to explore and develop this concept, they aim to elevate the web3 ecosystem by supporting creators and collaborators, educating newcomers, and increasing visibility for metaverses and their use cases.
❗️Why It Matters
Dreams of a frenzy of metaverse users and activity seem far away, but early metaverse builders, like the Sandbox, continue to lean into partnerships and collaborations aiming to set up long-term success. Given millions are willing to attend Travis Scott concerts in Fortnite, it seems worthwhile that Sandbox would partner with Affyn to try and improve its immersive experiences.
🎤 Founder Feedback
We couldn't be more excited to unveil our partnership with The Sandbox. Our shared belief and vision of an open metaverse is the driving force behind this collaboration. We're confident it will provide gamers, collaborators and virtual world enthusiasts with an even more immersive and interactive experience.Lucaz Lee, CEO Affyn
🔜 What's Next?
Affyn's upcoming keynote event, Evolution, on May 10, 2023 will reveal more details about their games and the Sandbox partnership.
ERM Labs, a company specialized in "IRL experiences and adventure experiences, has partnered with The Sandbox to bring real-life escape room experiences into the metaverse. The news was announced this morning by The Sandbox via its Medium blog.
The Details
This collaboration will bring real-life escape room experiences into the metaverse, creating an exciting and immersive gaming experience for users. Through this partnership, NFT integration will be a key feature, allowing for unique collectibles and rewards to be earned by players. As users complete escape rooms, they can acquire limited-edition NFTs that can be traded, sold, or displayed in their virtual spaces.
Additionally, users will have the opportunity to create and monetize their own escape rooms within The Sandbox metaverse. By doing so, they can engage other players in their own custom-designed challenges and benefit from the growing interest in virtual gaming experiences.
❗ Why It Matters
The partnership between ERM Labs and The Sandbox highlights the increasing convergence of real-life experiences and the metaverse. It demonstrates the potential for various industries to embrace web3 technologies and NFTs to create engaging, immersive experiences.
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The Sandbox and Playground Studious are teaming up to create a unique digital environment for LaMelo Ball fans.
The Deets
- LaMelo Ball's universe comes to The Sandbox Metaverse
- The first event, Melo's Social Hub, runs from April 17 to May 1
- Players can win a share of 100,000 $SAND prize pool
- Any user with Sandbox account can play
- KYC required to earn prizes
The Details:
LaMelo Ball, an NBA star and trendsetter, will bring his universe to life in The Sandbox Metaverse, a playground for creators, collectors, and fans.
Melo's Social Hub, the first event, will run from April 17 to May 1 and feature 19 unique quests related to Melo's hobbies. This event is part of the March Festival event's progression system, with users who complete all quests being rewarded with a Mystery Box.
Players participating in the event can also win a share of a 100,000 $SAND prize pool, approximately $68,000.
❗️Why It Matters
LaMelo has already been prominently featured in web3 via both NBA Top Shot and his own NFT collection. While his foundational project has drawn criticsms, the partnership with the Sandbox offers a direct reward to winning participants...there's no need to wait for floor price to go up.
On the otherhand, Sandbox partnerships are no longer major storylines, as the platform has done an exceptional job at getting major brands into its metaverse for side games and events like this. But it still seems unlikely that its metaverse is ready for a major influx of players or daily participants.
📊 By the Numbers
Sandbox land parcels have fallen considerably in the last year, down more than 70 percent to a 0.5 ETH floor price.
🎬 Take Action
To participate in the Meloverse Event and register for the prize pool, create a KYC'd account on The Sandbox Website and complete the quests in the event.
Charles & Keith, a global fashion brand, is expanding its presence in the metaverse with The Sandbox to create virtual fashion accessories as NFTs.
❗ Why It Matters
This partnership shows how NFTs are expanding beyond just digital art and into the fashion world. It also highlights the potential for NFTs in creating unique and personalized experiences within virtual worlds.
🔎 The Deets
- The partnership between Charles & Keith and The Sandbox will create virtual fashion accessories as NFTs that can be worn in the metaverse.
- The virtual fashion accessories will include handbags, shoes, and jewelry inspired by Charles & Keith's real-world designs.
- The NFTs will be available for purchase in The Sandbox's marketplace and can be used within The Sandbox's virtual world.
- The event will last from March 13-27 and will feature a virtual concert by K-pop artist APOKI.
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The Sandbox's March Festival has begun with hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of prizes up for grabs!
❗ Why It Matters
Participants will be eligible to win $SAND (the project's native token) prizes and Mystery Boxes, which can contain valuable NFTs. Anyone can play, although Sandbox Avatar and Land holders are eligible for additional prizes.
🔎 The Deets
- The March Festival will run today through April 9, and those who complete 300 quests over this period will be "guaranteed winners."
- NFT projects that are listed among Mystery Box rewards include World of Women, CyberKongz, Beanz, Gutter Cat Gang and rektguy, though most boxes will contain $SAND.
- The total prize pool is 1,150,000 $SAND (about $667,000 at current prices).
- Avatar and Land holders must KYC in order to be eligible for the 350,000 $SAND prize pool which is alloted to holders.
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The Sandbox is partnering with Toei Animation, Japan's leading animation studio, according to an announcement from the project.
❗Why It Matters
While The Sandbox is notorious for its web3 partnerships, this time it is looking to expand its reach with a leading brands outside of web3. TOEI ANIMATION has helped produce notable IP like Dragon Ball, and will provide a new outlet for its fans to participate in the metaverse.
🎤 Community Quotes
Extremely bullish esp with the recent partnership with the Saudis and is the iconic ToeiAnimation group. Lesgo!!TenLee01
The Deets
The partnership allotted 1,000 exclusive digital collectibles for new members of the Sandbox. At the time of this post, all 1,000 have already been claimed.
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The Sandbox has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Saudi Arabia's Digital Government Authority to collaborate on metaverse projects. The news was confirmed in a tweet from co-founder & COO of The Sandbox, Sebastien Borget.
What It Means
The Sandbox, a web3 gaming platform and open NFT metaverse, signed the MOU at the 2023 LEAP Technology Conference. The details beyond that are vague but The Sandbox COO Borget said he looks forward to exploring, advising and supporting Saudi Arabia in activations of the Metaverse.
❗ Why It Matters
The metaverse has caught the eye of Saudi Arabia as well, after Dubai and the World Economic Forum both expressed their designs on it in January. The continued interest of global entities is a vote of confidence in the future of the metaverse.
📊 By the Numbers
The news has resulted in the token for The Sandbox (SAND) skyrocketing about 25 percent in the last 24 hours, from the low $0.70s range to near $0.90.
🎤 Community Quotes
Beautiful seeing the extraordinary investments 🇸🇦 has made. I feel regulation is our present frontier to mass adoption.G_is_us
