Paris Hilton to host virtual parties in The Sandbox metaverse platform

Paris Hilton this week announced that her company, 11:11 Media, will bring her world to the immersive virtual gaming world of The Sandbox.
There, she’ll launch a “land,” in which she’ll interact with her fans and sell digital goods. The platform said Hilton “is planning social and community events such as rooftop parties and glamorous social experiences in her virtual Malibu mansion” — with 11 versions of Hilton-inspired avatars.
The Sandbox, which describes itself as a leading “decentralized virtual world” that is “part virtual real estate, part amusement park,” has 300 existing partnerships, with the likes of Warner Music Group and video game maker Ubisoft, along with other celebrities such as Snoop Dogg and Steve Aoki, along with brands such as The Smurfs, and Adidas.

In an exclusive interview with CNBC, Hilton said she wanted to bring her own metaverse from Roblox into other platforms.
“Snoop Dogg released his world in there, which is incredible, and I was so excited when I saw that,” she said. “I’m really excited to bring Paris world all over — we’re going to be working with a couple other platforms.”  
In The Sandbox she’ll sell Paris-inspired NFTs and host virtual parties — but she says this us just the beginning of what she hopes to build.
“Right now we’re mostly focusing on the experiences and not the monetization because that’s just not the focus right now,” Hilton said. “But we are going to be doing digital wearables and working with different brands and there’s a lot of exciting projects I can’t announce yet.”
Hilton’s first move into the metaverse was when she built “Paris Hilton World” inside Roblox late last year. She launched the space with a virtual New Year’s Eve party in which her avatar DJ’ed. Then she DJ’ed what she called a “Neon Carnival” festival timed to Coachella. Roblox said that Hilton’s virtual world has been visited by nearly 544,000 fans — but it won’t say how much revenue it’s generated.

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