BlackPearl - Your Avenue Toward Change
Imagine if you could extend the means to influence your future and the futures of those around you, by changing consumer and manufacturer attitudes in their approach to what makes a sustainable world.
BlackPearl International seeks to introduce a culture of "Smart Consumerism" through encouraging people to apply their imagination in creating solutions to problems that face the world as a result of our consumer driven society. (Discover The Art of Living...)
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In a new millennium, where there is so much to see and do, BlackPearl offers a Virtual Lifestyle opportunity designed to become a Real World endevor and produce a positive impact upon the creative, manufacture and business processes.
By leveraging the relationship between the consumer and the manufacturer, producer or service provider, through the medium of “competition and entertainment”, BlackPearl’s Smart Consumer will:
• be in a position to make a change in society,
• be able generate an income by doing so
• become a citizen in a truly Brave New World
Driving a social network based on technology innovation, BlackPearl harnesses the creativity and passion of young people of all ages, in seeking and devising innovations that focus on solutions to real world issues, and so make a difference in the world today.
Using the natural capacity of dedicated and driven individuals to compete, BlackPearl International is creating an online presence that will provide its participants with a Virtual Reality (VR) environment in which a virtual economy will offer unlimited income opportunities in the real world cash economy.
BUSINESS IDEA
BlackPearl offers a unique mixture of online community self-creation and E-commerce through an entertaining medium that is designed to test and develop creative minds. BlackPearl will develop and operate the ”BlackPearl Planet”, an Internet based 3D Immersive Virtual Reality world environment for interactive trade with a real economy, as well as providing education programs, a virtual stock exchange, a real-world trading market and entertainment.
Vision
 BlackPearl is destined to become a serious contender in the industry by supplying a virtual world for interactive trading and education, where the participants react within a real economy, which offers a complete alternative to the real world.
If you want entertainment - this is it.
Make money while you have fun.
Supported by affiliate partnership programs with some of the planets biggest technology suppliers, funded by sponsorships from selected institutions and NGO’s and in conjunction with Universities and distance learning centres the world over, Black Pearl will touch the lives of all people by changing the attitudes of First World consumers.
Offer
• BlackPearl’s role is to provide a VR environment where the user creates their own character and embarks on tasks, trade, adventure and social interaction with other participants in the system.
• Continents can be explored and new settlements built, either alone or in cooperation with others.
• Trade is developed through the sale and purchase of skills and items required for projects.
Trade can be both real-world and virtual.
• In this virtual economy, virtual currency ($BP) is used to purchase different assets and objects, which the user requires for the tasks. The virtual currency is exportable to the real world, as real cash, and vice versa.
• Assets requiring repair or replacement - the user / buyer pays, just like the real world.
• BlackPearl Planet functions as a true market economy where prices are set by supply and demand. The economy is based on BlackPearl’s own currency of $BP, with an exchange rate to the US dollar of 1:10.
Unique characteristics of the offer
• The money in BlackPearl’s virtual economy, the $BP, can be exchanged for real currency and vice versa.
• Each user has a unique and secure account in BlackPearl from which payments for goods and services can be made. The account also receives profit or payments which the user obtains.
• Transactions between users, for example buying and selling of goods, are paid via the user’s account in BlackPearl.
• If a user wants to convert their $BP to $US or Euro this is simply achieved by a request to BlackPearl International, or through use of the BlackPearl Cash Card which allows users to make withdrawals from their account from any of the million ATM machines worldwide.
Value of the Offer
• BlackPearl Int. want the BlackPearl Planet to become one of the largest online VR environments in the world, along with SecondLife and Entropia Universe.
• The virtual economy must offer unlimited income opportunities to the participant.
• BlackPearl offers a unique mixture of online community creation and E-commerce through an entertaining medium that is designed to test and develop creative minds.
• In connecting a real economy to a vast 3D virtual world, which is essentially a market and product laboratory test bed, innovations that might ordinarily never make it to the consumer, can be tested and produced for real world application.
• In much the same way that space exploration has brought us new improvements in products and product development - the BlackPearl World, focussing on the Smart Consumer, will shape responsible LifeStyle development through truly environmentally sustainable means
A Brief Scenario of the 3D Immersive Environment
Entry to the world of BlackPearl is gained once the user has applied for an account.
When the account has been approved, the user is able to download the 3D Client Software which will allow the user machine to access the BlackPearl world.
At this juncture, the user is merely a Tourist.
Upon entering BlackPearl, the user is transported to the virtual planet, arriving at one of the many immigration zones where they are met by a representative / guide who will take them on an orientation tour and assist them with creating an Avatar, their alter ego, which is modeled entirely to their requirements regarding gender, appearance, etc.
Citizenship in BlackPearl costs a small fee. The fee is the guage of commitment. The fee has three levels.
At this point, the User becomes a Citizen
The Avatar is the Virtual Body of the citizen. Without an Avatar, there can be no In-World social interaction, adventure, or business.
Over time BlackPearl will be developed and built mainly on citizens own initiative and, together with other citizens, they have the opportunity to participate in the creation of a “new civilization”, the exploration of whole continents and the establishment of new communities.
Should a participant choose to leave the safety of the cities and towns they will have to defend themselves against hostile terrain, the vagaries of the weather and wild animals,
A participant can even prospect and claim new areas, survey and extract minerals or commence property development.
CONCLUSION
While there are a few 3D worlds already in existence, and generating a revenue stream from a process that is largely entertainment driven, none of them address the impact of consumerism and manufacturing on this planets environment.
BlackPearl addresses this by creating the first interactive platform in the world where the Smart consumer, in conjunction with the designers and innovators who shape our lives, can truly make a difference to our steward-ship of this planet. And be entertained.
 Project Motivation:
"Consumerism drives commerce, which drives industry which is the primary cause of all our ills."
Our very hunger is eating up the means of our support
With “ethical consumerism” on the rise as more consumers realize that their actions have ethical, social, and environmental consequences, they are increasingly shopping with their conscience and guilt, forcing marketers, retailers, and producers to examine their methodologies
The Endeavor
Responding to this motivation, BlackPearl International will operate, develop and market this VR environment under the name of BlackPearl. It will target innovators, imagineers and pioneers – people who posses an entrepreneurial spirit – in all spheres of business endeavor, to develop and influence industrty and commerce at the level of the global consumer.
Their common goal: to introduce a “living process of optimum outcome through wise action”
In a new millennium, where there is so much to see and do. BlackPearl offers a Virtual Lifestyle opportunity designed to provide a positive impact upon the creative, manufacture and business processes.
Whilst benefiting from Real Cash rewards in this virtual economy, these entrepreneurs will be creating the New Frontier for the new consumer in a truly global competition.
BlackPearl offers more diversity than any other Virtual World. Its social environment engendering a breeding ground for New Millennium thought, will result in a pool of innovation through serendipity.
The Core Concept
To develop and build a community where participants will do as they formerly did for free, with the new bonus of:
• making money
• developing their entrepreneurial spirit
• building their own business
• gaining recognition, and
• have the “fun, adventure and challenge” of a New Frontier
Who is out there?
- Internet users already supply information, for free, thru a multiplicity of web sites.
- Designers already show their work – for free – be it graphic, programming, fashion, urban.
- All people have opinions about products and services. They supply this for free.
- Gaming sites and programmers already like to show off their trick and tips – for free
- Competition respondents prepare their entries for peer recognition and money prizes.
They already do this for free.
Web environment designers and builders love to show off their skills to each other.
They compete with each other, for free, all over the internet. Hoping that a developer or manufacturer will "discover" them
And more importantly, appliance and software developers, industrial and graphic design houses already run competitions for students and professional, on their websites to raise design interest, brand awareness and loyalty.
 Leveraging the Wave
“No man is more peaceful than when he is counting money”.
Old Arab Proverb
BlackPearl uses an agglomeration of compelling and exciting attractions. None of these are new.
Each one of them exists, somwhere, on a single web domain that is dedicated to its singular purpose.
Very few of these attractions might exist all together on a single domain.
As it stands today, the internet has sites dedicated to health, plumbing, computer programming, dogs, employment, job opportunities, architectural design, stock exchanges… some are for the purpose of sharing information… others for the purpose of making money or securing services.
They are “social” in a sense.
The “new flavor of the week” is the social networking which is largely, nothing more than apen-pal group writ big. There is no money in it for the members – but lots for the marketing
companies attempting to capture young audiences who no longer watch TV, and rather spend their time in the vicarious pursuit of reading about each other, in an attempt to “find out if there are others like me out there”.
The aim of BlackPearl is to bring all these diverse human drives and desires into one place: a single domain whose sole objective is commerce through ethical consumerism
“to help you to help us become Smart Consumers who not only consume,
but replace that which we consume, with something more…”
BlackPearl is designed to tap into the human psyche: The need for recognition when one excels at a thing. The need for financial reward for work well done, and the need for a skilled artisan when one wants a good job done. The need to take risks and the need for risk-takers. The need to be an entrepreneur, and the willingness to pioneer.
At BlackPearl International, we recognize that in all fields of human endeavor there are the “explorers”, the “pioneers” and then, the “settlers”. We aim to attract the explorers and pioneers first.
Background to the Launch Plan
There is nothing new in the technologies or component concepts of BlackPearl.
Nor is there anything startling in the information that will be displayed.
BlackPearl diverges from its VR competitors in the “Motive for the Content”
It diverges from the Social Network model in its intent: “Creating a Real Cash Economy in a Virtual World”
Its Primary Goal is to empower Smart consumers with the means to change the real world they live in.
On the surface BlackPearl may not appear too different from other Virtual Worlds – our competitors
• SecondLife - Pop. 2m - owned by Linden Laboratories
• Entropia Universe - Pop. 630 000 - owned by MindArk
• Active-Worlds - Pop 1m - owned by Active Worlds
• Weblo - Pop 6045 - owned by Allainet Corporation
• some other minor players of no consequence
One layer down it utilizes similar Social Network principles, operations & marketing technologies as
• FaceBook - current registererd users exceed the population of Brazil
• MySpace - 84m current registererd users. Greater than the population of Germany
• Digg - population 1m +
At the next layer down it does not differ greatly from blog sites, interactive game sites or chat sites
However, BlackPearl offers a more superior alternative to blogging for the sake of blogging, chatting for the sake of chatting, or placing resumes or vacancies on an employment website.
• Largest Blog site - E-Blogger 30m registererd users
• Largest Chat site - ICQ 12m registererd users
By combining the attributes of both virtual world and social networking, by targeting those individuals who are driven by ambition and money, by providing a commerce generating environment, and populating it with entrepreneurs and risk-takers who are motivated by success, we have nothing less than the spirit which set Columbus a-sail, or put the first man on the moon, and has almost completed the International Space Station.
BlackPearl will be under constant development by the users exploiting different areas and adding new dimensions to their activity. This means that BlackPearl grows in scope and attracts new users at the same time that it offers existing users greater interest in continued participation.
BlackPearl will lead the next wave: “The Art of Living”
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