Highstreet brings to life everyone’s childhood video game fantasies with the first ever big budget VR MMORPG. From the rich vibrant worlds of the Oasis in Ready Player One, to the thrilling dungeons of Aincrad from Sword Art Online, our team of passionate designers and engineers work ceaselessly to craft a “Digital Living” experience worthy of your favorite stories. We take gameplay inspirations from modern legends like Breath of the Wild and Half-Life: Alyx, but also invest heavily into studying the world building techniques of timeless classics like World of Warcraft and MapleStory.
While it takes years and years to build a MMO, let alone one completely in Virtual Reality, at Highstreet we do things a little differently. Rather than build completely in stealth for 5 years, we deliver content to our supporters every step of the way to keep feedbacks swift, and expectations aligned.
Our first iteration in 2021 introduced Highstreet Campus to the world. This browser playable experience, still accessible right here on our website, allowed users to explore a theme park sized slice of Highstreet World, complete with avatar design, shops with digital and phygital products payable with HIGH, as well as pieces of lore littered throughout the playable area that unveils piece by piece the secret origins of our beloved FOMO Duck tribe. We soon after followed up with an expansion that allowed players to access their Highstreet residences both from the browser, as well as from their Oculus Quests, breathing new features into the experience that included Furnitures, Media Streaming, and of course Pets.
In the past year we’ve teased many VR demos at gaming and crypto events worldwide, all of it is culminating towards our next big launch, the Highstreet Gladiator Arena. With this release coming soon to the Oculus Quest 3 and 3S platform, we’re officially launching a slice of the MMO that will include character development, level progression, skills and abilities, occupations, combat, and many more. The goal for this launch is to thoroughly test our game design mechanics with real players, and also start sharing our incredible world building with the everyone.
Highstreet is perpetually thankful to our investors and community members whose continuous support allows us to build our otherwise impossible dream. MMOs are risky, and VR expands that risk 100 folds. It takes a lot of eccentric and idiosyncratic people to build through the doubt and negativity. Luckily that’s who we are at Highstreet, dreamers, creative fanatics, and VR purists.
On behalf of the Highstreet Team, thank you for all the support, we can’t wait to share our world with you.
Travis
CEO, Highstreet
Investments in Highstreet is lead by Binance Labs and Animoca Brands with participation from both crypto and traditional investors including HTC, Palm Drive Capital, Jump Capital, HTX Ventures, Mechanism Capital, and more.