Gucci purchased land in The Sandbox to create Metaverse experience

February 19, 2022
The creator clothing brand reported on Wednesday that it’s purchased an undisclosed measure of virtual land on the decentralized blockchain game The Sandbox. Gucci will make themed encounters on The Sandbox roused by its “Gucci Vault” stage, which records things like Gucci-themed NFTs and classic packs.
Notwithstanding a design-centred metaverse space, Gucci additionally will be delivering style things for Sandbox players to buy and wear in the game’s computer-generated simulation.
“For another age of players, virtual style is just about as significant as genuine design,” Sebastien Borget, COO and prime supporter of The Sandbox, said in an explanation.
This isn’t whenever Gucci first has authorized things for virtual wear. It recently collaborated with two Roblox engineers to deliver an authority clothing assortment in December 2020. Gucci likewise made a virtual space on Roblox called the “Gucci Garden Experience.” Notably, a portion of the Roblox things turned out to be scalped and exchanged for a huge number of dollars, with costs practically identical to that of real Gucci sacks.
However, not at all like Roblox, The Sandbox is a particularly crypto-centred stage. Clients should buy virtual land and things utilizing the SAND token, and the actual game is based on the Ethereum organization. That being said, The Sandbox is no more odd to wild costs for virtual things, either, with purchasers gathering up virtual land close to superstars’ virtual land for countless dollars.
Gucci, which became famous in crypto as the primary extravagance brand to deliver an NFT-a sort of token used to exhibit responsibility for things keeps on putting resources into decentralized stages and resources, and it gives no indications of dialling back with regards to venturing into the universe of Web3.