The Sandbox is an Ethereum-based metaverse game that lets users buy virtual land and customize it with playable games and experiences.
Celebrities and brands have flocked to the space, including Snoop Dogg, Adidas, Paris Hilton, The Walking Dead, Gucci, and more.
Metaverse is coming! Excitement and speculation around the immersive future internet has skyrocketed since Facebook rebranded as Meta and unveiled its own vision for the space—but crypto creators have been building towards the metaverse for years.
One of the most anticipated projects in the space is The Sandbox, an Ethereum-based video game that lets users own a piece of the world in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT)—and they can use those LAND parcels to develop custom games and locations, and even monetize them. It’s similar to Decentraland, albeit with more of a pronounced video game-like look and feel to it.
After several years of development, The Sandbox is finally nearing release, bringing along celebrities and brands like Snoop Dogg, Adidas, Plimbare Moarta, și Ubisoft along for the ride. Here’s a look at how The Sandbox works, how you can get involved, and which famous faces you might run into in this upcoming metaverse world.
Ce este The Sandbox?
The Sandbox is an open-world video game on PC, Mac, and mobile devices that will let players freely explore a map consisting of thousands of unique experiences. It looks a bit like Microsoft’s smash hit Minecraft, featuring blocky characters and worlds that resemble retro game pixels brought into 3D, but The Sandbox will have a persistent and shared online map.
However, it won’t be the original developers of the game that create most of those locations and games on the map. Each LAND parcel in the game is an NFT that can be purchased and used to create custom experiences. Some will be operated by brands or communities, while others may hail from individual creators who want to carve out their own personal space in this metaverse world.
We’re likely to see virtual events in The Sandbox’s world, including those confirmed from Snoop Dogg și Warner Music Group artists, as well as NFT launch parties and other live experiences. It could become an immersive hub for the wider Web3 comunitate.
Ce este metaversul?
The metaverse refers to a future, more immersive version of the internet, which is envisioned to be experienced via avatars in shared 3D spaces. Proponents of this potential future online world believe that we will socialize, shop, play, and even work within metaverse environments.
That said, the term “metaverse” and how it will actually take shape are a bit nebulous for now. For crypto builders, the metaverse implies a series of worlds based on blockchain technology that use open, interoperable technology. In those types of environments, NFT assets like avatars, virtual apparel, and other items could potentially be used across worlds and games.