Virtual Market 2023 Real in Akiba
On the 10th Virtual Market and its 5th anniversary, Vket held its first real event, "Virtual Market 2023 Real in Akiba," which involved the entire town of Akihabara, centered on Bellesalle Akihabara. The event, which featured a variety of entertaining contents that allowed anyone to easily experience and enjoy metaverse, recorded 40,000 visitors over the two days. More than 8,000 real products were sold. The event created an event that transcended the boundaries between the real world and the metaverse, allowing people to connect with each other. Event period: July 29 and 30, 2023 (2 days)
Virtual Market 2023 Summer
The 10th annual Virtual Market was held in July 2023. This memorable 5th anniversary 10th Vket saw the largest number of visitors ever, with a total of more than 1.2 million visitors in total. The number of exhibitors and IPs at the web browser venue, which can also be accessed from smartphones, was also the largest ever. In addition, JVC KENWOOD Corporation, musician Kohmi Hirose, and dancer Taiga challenged the Guinness World Record™ and obtained the third Guinness World Record™ for the Vket as the "Most videos of avatars dancing choreographed dances posted on Twitter in one hour". Event period: July 15, 2023 - July 30, 2023 (16 days) Theme: CONNECT Company Exhibit Venues: Para Real Las Vegas / Para Real Fukuoka / Para Real Akihabara Number of exhibiting companies/IPs: approx. 75 Number of exhibiting circles: 700 circles
Virtual Market 2022 Winter
The 9th Virtual Market was held in December 2022. Virtual Nagoya Station," an elaborate reproduction of JR Nagoya Station, attracted attention by offering an advance ride on the Linear Central Shinkansen in metaverse, which cannot yet be ridden in the real world. BEAMS, Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Store, Marie Quandt Cosmetics, and Yaizu City offered "metaverse customer service," in which actual employees and staff members enter VR stores and communicate with visitors. Event period: December 3, 2022 - December 18, 2022 (16 days) Theme: NEXT Journey Company Exhibit Venues: ParaReal Nagoya, ParaReal Paris, ParaReal Sapporo Number of exhibiting companies/IPs: approx. 70 Number of circles exhibiting: 540 circles
Virtual Market 2022 Summer
The 8th Virtual Market was held in August 2022. A number of "real x virtual interlocking projects" were held, linking the real Osaka Station with the Virtual Osaka Station, as well as "user-participation projects". The event was a big hit on SNS, trending on Twitter (now X) on the first day of the event. Event period: August 13, 2022 - August 28, 2022 (16 days) Theme: Origin Company Exhibit Venues: ParaReal Osaka / ParaReal New York Number of exhibiting companies/IPs: approx. 60 Number of circles exhibiting: 540 circles
Virtual Market 2021
The 7th annual Virtual Market was held in December 2021. Lawson, TV Asahi, SMBC Nikko Securities, and others exhibited for the first time, marking the largest number of corporate exhibitors ever. As the first phase of the "Para-real Project" to recreate real-life cities in a new form in metaverse, the market attracted attention with its recreation of the streets of Shibuya and Akihabara. The project proposed new PR methods in the metaverse, such as advertising jack-ups throughout the entire metaverse. Event period: December 4, 2022 - December 19, 2022 (16 days) Theme: Metaverse City Company Exhibit Venues: ParaReal Shibuya / ParaReal Akihabara Number of exhibiting companies/IPs: approx. 80 Number of exhibiting circles: 600 circles
Virtual Market 6
The 6th Virtual Market was held in August 2021. Under the theme of "World Festi-VR: Festivals of the World," many companies, including JR East, NTT Docomo, and Yamaha Motor, exhibited for the first time at the venue that represented festivals from Japan and countries around the world. A browser venue that can be accessed from smartphones, tablets, and other devices with only a URL click was also created using Vket Cloud technology, and was well received by those who had never touched VR before. From this year, the exhibiting system for general circles was changed to a lottery system. Event period: August 14 - 28, 2021 (15 days) Theme: Festivals of the World Number of exhibiting companies/IPs: approx. 60 Number of exhibiting circles: 465 circles
Virtual Market 5
The fifth edition of the Virtual Market was held in December 2020. Around 1,000 general exhibitors and 70 companies (the most corporate exhibitors to date) exhibited. We also secured corporate trademarks to exhibit at the event, including Godzilla, NARUTO, and Disney. The number of visitors reached a record high of 1.14 million. In addition, we held a virtual concert called Miyavi Virtual Live 360 that was a big hit. Event Period: December 19, 2020 - January 10, 2021 (23 days) Theme: WorldBeyond Number of exhibiting companies/IPs: approx. 70 Number of exhibiting circles: 1,200 circles
Virtual Market 4
Virtual Market 4 was held in April 2020. We accepted all exhibitor applications for this event and had around 1,000 exhibitors. This event had 39 corporate exhibitors that saw the best reaction from our users to date, including Disney, Seven & i Holdings, SoftBank and Isetan. The "Parareal Tokyo'' setting for the corporate booths at this event featured several landmarks in Tokyo and was a great hit. Event Period: April 29 - May 10, 2020 (12 days) Theme: Para-real World Number of exhibiting companies/IPs: approx. 40 Number of exhibiting circles: 1,100 circles
Virtual Market 3
The third Virtual Market was held in September 2019. From over 1,000 general exhibition applications, 600 won the loto exhibit. Continuing from the second session, 30 companies exhibited, including national clients such as Seven & i Holdings, Panasonic, and KDDI. Event Period: September 21 - 28, 2019 (8 days) Theme: ANOTHER REALITY Number of exhibiting companies/IPs: approx. 30 Number of exhibiting circles: 600 circles
Virtual Market 2
The second Virtual Market was held in March 2019. In addition to 400 general exhibitors (around five times the number at the first exhibition), we started accepting corporate exhibitor applications. Domestic clients such as Seven & i Holdings and Avex exhibited. Event Period: March 8 - March 10, 2019 (3 days) Theme: Let's log in to the future! Number of exhibiting companies/IPs: approx. 20 Number of exhibiting circles: 400 circles
Virtual Market 1
The first Virtual Market was held in August 2018. Approximately 80 groups exhibited in the VR space according to the motif of the event venue, showcasing new possibilities of the virtual space. Event Date: August 26, 2018 Number of exhibiting companies: 2 companies Number of exhibiting circles: about 80 circles