End-to-end virtual reality content creation platform and marketplace Voxelus is nearly here with the company announcing today that it would be going live in early April, and that it had signed new partnerships with online marketplace Flat Pyramid and online trading platform Uphold.

The partnership with Flat Pyramid, an online marketplace for finding, purchasing and selling 3D content, will see Voxelus integrate up to 7000 Flat Pyramid VR assets including non-proprietary graphics, images, and 3D models, into the Voxelus Marketplace.

According to Voxelus, this new partnership will mean that it will be the world’s largest source of virtual reality content from the day it opens, with the 7000 Flat Pyramid assets joining a further 250 original assets in the store, and over 7,000 assets created by its community.

“Content has always been the number one problem on any upcoming new technology. We’ve seen it happen with the Internet in the early days and with the rise of the smartphones era – it will be no different for VR,” Voxelus Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Martin Repetto said in a statement sent to SiliconANGLE. “The newly launched Voxelus marketplace with Flat Pyramid content solves this problem by creating an environment with an unlimited amount of content available at competitive prices.”

The company is also releasing details of a new multi-player feature for VR gaming modes based on the popular “tower defense” paradigm used by League of Legends and many of the world’s most popular games, and noted that all of their content will be compatible with the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift from its debut, with support for Merge VR and HTC Vive coming later in the year.

Voxel trading

If you’ve not been following the development of Voxelus previously, the company is utilizing an in-platform currency used on the platform called “voxels” which is able to be purchased and sold.

The company announced today that the Voxel will be available to trade as an asset on trading service Uphold, which means that those interested in the currency will be able to buy or sell it for dollars, euros, bitcoin, RMB, gold, silver or other non-fractional assets; in addition Uphold will also power the Voxelus payment engine, meaning that users will also be able to use credit or debit to purchase the currency.

“Having the Voxelus marketplace use its own cryptocurrency allows the 2.5 billion people in the world who have no bank account but have a mobile phone to create, buy and sell virtual reality content,” Repetto added. “This explosion of inexpensive, globally accessible content will help speed the adoption of VR globally, and the Voxel, through its variety of wallets, including a Web wallet and Android wallet, will be the first exposure many gamers and creators throughout the world have with a cryptocurrency.”

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