>>78485674Yes.
https://vrcboxing.com/2024/02/19/jbc_join/They partnered with the Japan Boxing Commission to be recognized as an official e-sport.
There are many other deals and projects the devs are working on, but I can't/wouldn't be able to share anything that hasn't been made public. Make of that statement what you will.My heart goes out to Tori/Colori. They busted their asses to appease the EN audience, which helped the world get to a million visits, with 10k daily visits currently.
Here's another example of how wildly successful the JP scene is. JP VRC Boxing is backed by a production house called Hotel Qadesh (Two of their leads from a few of their shorts are pictured in the attached image attending an informal boxing event), they create independent films and shorts in VRChat.
They recently struck a deal with department store and Vket Winter 2023 sponsor/attende BEAMS to promote their V-Fashion line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIo6fGW-cMEIn essence, a channel with less then 1k subs and 10k views on any of it's videos can secure corporate sponsorships and major accolades from different festivals because JP production values are that good.
The best we can do in EN is hope that the underaged questies don't drop N-bombs live on twitch.
