See Previous. BlackPearl
The Art of Living
"You barely know half of what you think. And half of that is mostly wrong".
What is BlackPearl?
By directing the energies of intelligent people, and promoting wise consumer-ship in the Art Of Living, BlackPearl seeks to bring about social and environmental change in the real world.
We do this by providing the means to direct the future of product design and manufacture.
BlackPearl invites creative, thinking individuals who have the energy and imagination, to participate in developing a sustainable commerce platform in the growing Virtual World context, whilst earning money for doing what they already do professionally or as a hobby.
OBJECTIVE: BlackPearl - The Art of Living
By providing this Virtual World platform, BlackPearl opens, and changes, the channel between the Smart consumer and business, between end-user and manufacturer, between client and service-provider.
BlackPearl will have 2 client bases, and serve as the link between them
• the Smart Consumer
• product developers and manufacturers, marketing and advertising companies, financial and educational institutions, intersted corporate businesses
Primary Functions to the Consumer:
• Promoting planetary environmental responsibility through best design and business practice
• Consumer Driven Product Development - Affective property evaluation of virtual product designs
• Promoting Ethical Consumerism and Corporate Responsibility through a variety of channels
These functions are coupled with; consumer action / reaction to various surveys conducted on a paid reward basis, paid product trials and testemonials, paid research surveys.
Primary Services to Companies:
• Providing feedback on virtual product tests, paid surveys etc., conducted within our system
• Sale of data from our own surveys with registerd BlackPearl citizens
• Sale of advertising and promotional space
• Brokering of services, designs or concepts that are developed by BlackPearl members’ collaborations, within our system.
In this scenario: the Smart consumer becomes a New Market, the end-user becomes a free-lance consultant and the client becomes a service provider.
These functions will be served by addressing the environmental and social impact that ‘the things” that our Lifestyle’s desire, have caused upon our planets environment, our health and the fabric of society - our endangered future.
Humanity’s impact on the bio-physical and social environment need not be labored upon here.
Instead BlackPearl presents the pathway to the solutions.
STRATEGY
In the instances of SecondLife, Active Worlds and Entropia Universe, the constructs within the VR environment have been created by the users themselves, following a set of programming parameters laid down by the originators.
BlackPearl will have two Phases of developement.
Phase I - Corporate Web domain of BlackPearl International
• The compilation of marketing content outlining the requirements of development programmers and designers for the construction Phase II
• The marketing of the concept by direct marketing methods to universities, industrial and architectural design institutions, selected computer software companies, selected manufacturing industries, selected large retail companies.
Phase II - The Virtual World of BlackPearl
Environment Architecture: World Creation
“In the beginning was the command line... “ Think of BlackPearl as a planet. Devoid of life.
Think of planet terraformers who arrive with atmosphere generators, power stations building equipment and material who set about making the world habitable
Our Terra-formers are the development programmers and designers drawn from all disciplines: engineering, biologics, medicine, geology, computers, entertainment, marine enterprise, climatology,... will be enjoined to undertake the construction of the VR environment.
They will be the creators of the planet. This cannot be done on an individual basis. All projects will more likely be undertaken in collaborative groups... just like the real world.
Environment Population: Explorers and Colonists
Just like the real thing, the first arrivals will no doubt be the exploreres and adventurers and will include practitioners and designers in the fields of: architecture, urban planning, automotive engineering, space industry, aviation, aeronautics, mining, tele-communications, plus some of the first lot, because this is now...
Real Estate and Real Business in the Virtual World
Just like the real thing, the prospectors, developers, entrepreneurs, artisans and trades-men arrive, followed by bankers, traders and lawyers.
“Call for Entries” = Viral Marketing
Announcements are to be posted on the websites of software developers, as well as the forums and blogs where these sooftware developers and users - students and professionals - hang out.
It is from these quarters that BlackPearl will raise the people required for the project.
For them, the project will be a pioneering adventure, with the potential of finding people to collaborate with in a vast technology-transfer scenario that will attract not just money, but the interest of companies that employ those people when they leave university
The 3D IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL WORLD of BLACK PEARL
ENGINEERING
BlackPearl’s Life Cycle
BlackPearl is 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.
A large part of the development resources must therefore be concentrated on further development of content and functionality. BlackPearl is specifically designed for this type of development because it can be regarded rather as a platform which can house innumerable new functions and sections, permitting variation in a dynamic format.
INCOME MODEL
BlackPearl’s income base is:
• the fees that the users pay for acquisition, repair and renewal of the different assets and objects that the user chooses to use In-World
• a percentage of transactions occuring within the system during trade - buying and selling of services
• fees paid by corporations or companies to advertise or run surveys within the system
In our virtual economy the participants use the virtual currency BPD (BlackPearl Dollars
• to purchase different objects, which the character requires
• to purchase real and virtual services and products
When these objects are used or worn a maintenance requirement occurs where the user makes payment In-World in order to keep their assets and objects in usable condition.
When real services or products are purchased, the transaction is conducted from the buyers real world bank, through the BlackPearl on-line bank system, and to the sellers real world bank. Where ever that may be.
During this transaction a small handling charge is incurred by both parties
The income model means that the income increases in relation to the number of active users and also that more active users raise the activity level which in turn increases the need for repairs and new purchases.
Objects with a set lifespan have a repurchase value which falls in relation to wear.
Unique objects can have a market value, which is fixed via auctions, which exceed the repurchase value.
Sevices and products, real or virtual, have what ever value the seller deems fit.
Fixed assets that do not wear out, such as land or property, emulate the conditions of the real world: their value may.rise or fall depending on the market forces at the time of the sale.
CHARGES AND FEES FOR >>
• The Entropia Universe does not have monthly subscription fees and the software is free to download and install from the Entropia Universe website. All income is generated by money brought into the system from the real world, for the purpase of making purchasers of land, or services from other citizens
• An Activeworld citizenship is only $6.95 per month. Non-citizens can still enter Active Worlds for free as a tourist.
Land prices vary from $10 - $1150 per annum - renewable annually
Land is only for sale to Citizens
• SecondLife Has a Free Basic sign-up and gives the user a (cheap) starting capital of L$250. Premium membership hasta starting capital of L$1000 and a weekly stipend of L$300 and an annual fee of $72.
Trade L$1 at US$0.30.
Land maintainance from 512sq m to 65 500sq m ranges between US$ 5 and 295.
Fields in which Participants will Engage.
>> Design and Technology
• automotive innovation
• transportation systems
• communications and devices
• energy generating urban landscaping
• Millennium II architecture
• Retail and Marketing
>> Life Sciences
• health
• education
>> Lifestyle & Leisure
• intelligent Homes & Housing
• domestic design
• interactive fashion
• beauty and cellular re-generation
• entertainment
• tourism & travel
>> Eco & Sustainability
• nano - Technology
• energy transforming materials etc.
• renewable energy from Very Large Scale projects
>> Communication
• "subliminal enticement" marketing & advertising
• "challenge orientated" media & publishing
>> Personal Product Design:
• personal devices (see Star Trek, Babylon5 and Dune)
• telecom & mobile interfaces
>> Financial Services
>> Food & Beverage
>> Entertainment
Advantages and Offerings
In BlackPearl a participant will be able to make money from a variety of activities in by
• Trading Virtual Stock on real accounts
• testing product prototypes - Beta Product tests and reporting
• influencing product design - deign and materials applivcations
• Real and Virtual Product Testing and Assessment
• Introduce Real stock-trades from new web trades
• Become an architect – Virtual–2-Real
• Develop virtual real estate (see Dubai Architectiure)
• Design virtual habitats with RealWorld application (see Dubai Architectiure)
• Evaluate REAL products for real cash - Tryvertising
• Design REAL products for real cash - contracted projects
• Formulate educational processes - contracted projects
• Be contracted to lead exploratory Proto-Teams for marketing or manufacturing companies - trial simulations
• Provide research material - final year university treatise
• Engage in actual Deep Space projects with major contractors
• Provide expertise in Lunar Habitation and Mining Exploration
• Address advanced bio-tech and metallurgical applications
• Explore and develop emerging Telepresence applications
• Address environmental concerns in a Virtual Training Arena
• Conceptualise RealWorld environments for University Studies
“Build a Life Worth Living”
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