Fans of There.com displaced by the upcoming shutdown may be able to find a home at Utherverse.com, a more “adult themed” virtual world. Per their forums:
You can exchange 130 Therebucks for 1 Ray on a straight across Therebucks to Rays exchange. (This values Therebucks at about $1.03 for 1800 Therebucks, just above the highest redemption value offered by There.com)
If you would like to use Therebucks for features within Utherverse, the exchange rate will be 100 Therebucks per Ray. You can use this type of exchange to purchase goods and services in Utherverse, such as VIP membership, Virtual World Web properties, your own Zaby, or Gifts for friends or yourself.
Instructions and limits are available in the forum post, although the “adult nature” may not appeal to people more interested in the purely social or academic aspects of virtual worlds.
Somewhat surprised we haven’t heard any similar offer from the likes of LindenLabs.
@ Emma Betancourt
Virtual Vancouver’s art gallery is filled with actual paintings, sculptures and photographs selling to real life buyers. We have movie theaters and live music streamed into the world through our various venues; every Friday we have a live performance in our amphitheater. We have a skate park as well as a fun house full of games and mazes.
Weekly events include costume contests and trivia games. The best part is that we have a simple user interface that makes this all possible.
There are many successful businesses within Virtual-Vancouver.com that range from bookstores to virtual wedding services. We have classrooms for educators, coaching and lecturers. Our most popular are third party applications for textures and clothes that run congruent to our software such as UtherCloset and UV Devient.
Unlike Second Life, we have a high population density so you can actually see and interact with other users the moment that you enter the world. With our various dimension
I am not sure which avatar image you are referring to.
@ Just Wondering
Those are good questions.
1. Utherverse is not buying ThereBucks but simply exchanging them over for Rays. We want to give the users of There some value out of their Therebucks that they are now not able to use, while offering them another virtual world to experience.
2.To be able to access anything that would be ‘adult content’, any user coming over from There.com would have to be VIP. In order to exchange Therebucks and become VIP, users will have to be age verified so anyone under 18 will not have access to any sort of content.
Virtual Vancouver is one of UV’s worlds, but it isn’t nearly as popular as its main attraction, Red Light Center, which is primarily marketed as an adult site on largely porn website. The majority of its new users join for the sexual aspects. Very little in UV caters towards art, music, entertainment, and business. Unlike Second Life, you’re not going to see galleries or concerts and the limited building options and inability to write scripts means there are very few business options (i.e. virtual prostitution, DJing, limited clothing design for avatars that cannot be customized, and limited home decorating); UV’s platform simply isn’t sophisticated enough to handle it. And that image is a false representation; the avatars DO NOT look like that.
Since Brian has chosen to post a comment here, I’d just like to ask two things:
1) Is your Rays for Therebucks offer sanctioned by There.com, or would it fall under the “do not use third party resellers” clause recently posted by the There.com staff?
2) What precautions have you put in place to keep under aged people who used There.com from getting into the adult content of Utherverse?
Thanks for the write up!
Utherverse is not just adult at all. We have many components that cater towards art, music, entertainment and business. Virtual-Vancouver is just that and can be found here: http://www.virtual-vancouver.com/
Since we have started this offer two days ago, we have seen more than 5 million ThereBucks exchanged over into our currency, Rays.
Another option is for There users to use their ThereBucks towards our VIP or Universal VIP packages. So far we have some users that are set for up to 8 years!
We are really excited to be able to offer There users a place to turn to, not just for the exchange, but for the community. For this purpose we have started http://therenewworld.com/
If anyone has any question at all, please contact us at [email protected]