VR Chat Opens Avatar Marketplace

 

 By Bixyl Shuftan

 

When the Newser took a look at VR Chat in 2018, people could get a number of free avatars there, but if you were a content creator looking to make money, there was no simple way to sell avatars to other players there as at the time unlike places such as Second Life there was no inworld economy. This changed in December 2023 when Paid Subscriptions were added to help the "over half a million" content creators get paid for their work. It is powered by Tilia, which still helps process Second Life's buying and selling of Linden dollars for real-life currency. This inworld economy allowed for inworld avatar stores to be made, but people had to find them to access them.

But in May, this changed when it was announced VR Chat was developing an Avatar Marketplace.

 Identity is a big part of VRChat – and that means finding an avatar that fits you. Yet, that can be a bit of a pain, especially if you aren’t adept with Unity, or if you don’t feel like visiting hundreds of worlds to try to find something that fits.

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But what if you didn’t have to do any of that – what if you could simply find something that works for you from inside VRChat? What if you could browse through a ton of easily accessible options, all organized by category? What if you could do so while supporting avatar creators, ensuring they have the means to keep making the fits you love?

Well, you’ll be able to shortly – the Avatar Marketplace is coming

To find the avatar marketplace, a VR Chat user goes to their menu and to the "Avatars" section where the marketplace is located. One can browse it and "search for published avatars, and see their details."

VRChat is listed as having over 66 thousand steady players. Tubefilter commented that fans of furry avatars would likely make up many of the marketplace's customers. Road to VR stated some of the avatars would be branded ones, such as ones from games.

 

Sources: VR Chat, Business Wire, Road to VR, Tubefilter, PC Gamer

 

Bixyl Shuftan