Virtual Market 2026 Winter Announced as Applications Open
One of the world's largest virtual events invites corporate exhibitors and individual creators to apply
HIKKY has announced Virtual Market 2026 Winter, the 17th edition of the company's flagship virtual event, running 16 days from December 5 to 20, 2026, on VRChat.
Virtual Market (commonly known as Vket) brings together corporate exhibitors and individual creators in purpose-built virtual worlds, where visitors browse and buy avatars, 3D goods, and more.
Applications to exhibit are open now for companies, organizations, and individual creators.
Virtual Market Official WebsiteWhat is Virtual Market?
Virtual Market is one of the world's largest virtual events, held on the social VR platform VRChat. Since its debut in 2018, it has run twice a year, every summer and winter, drawing more than 1.35 million visits from around the world in a single edition. To date, Virtual Market holds four Guinness World Records titles.
Visitors attend as avatars, exploring themed VR venues filled with booths from companies, organizations, and individual creators. They can pick up 3D items like avatars, order real-world goods including clothing and food, and take in attractions, games, and live music — an immersive experience much like spending a day out in a real city.
Virtual Market is free to attend and open 24 hours a day throughout the event period, on VR hardware or on a PC alone.
* Guinness World Records title for the most booths at a virtual reality market event.
Corporate Exhibits Across Two Worlds:
Parareal Spain and Parareal Yokohama
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For Virtual Market 2026 Winter, corporate exhibitors will be featured across two worlds themed around Spain and Yokohama.
HIKKY's dedicated team handles everything from booth content to campaign planning, working with each exhibitor to build the right approach. It's an opportunity to reach a global audience through immersive experiences only the virtual space can offer: building brand awareness, affinity, and lasting fan communities.
Companies and organizations interested in exhibiting can get in touch below.
Contact Us for Exhibition InquiriesExhibiting as an Individual Creator
Virtual Market isn't just for companies. Individual creators can display and sell their own work: 3D models, avatars, and more. You can build an original booth from scratch, or, if booth-building isn't your skill set, exhibit your work with tools Virtual Market provides.
Creator worlds span a wide range of themes and aesthetics, so you can choose the one that suits your work. Each also features games and other interactive content, which means visitors come for the world itself, and discover your work while they're there. That's something particular to Virtual Market.
Virtual Market 2026 Winter will feature 20 distinct creator worlds. Choose the exhibit format and the world that fit your skills and your style.
VRChat Worlds Return as Creator Venues
Vket Invited Worlds — a program that welcomes established VRChat worlds as creator exhibition venues, returns for this edition of Vket.
Two collaboration worlds have been confirmed: Murder 4, the mystery-horror game world with over 100 million cumulative visits worldwide, and OKEANOS DESCENT, a world event that carries players by airship across regions from open sky to deep sea. This marks the first corporate collaboration for both worlds.
Bringing each world's distinct setting together with Vket creates a new kind of exhibition, one where visitors explore the space itself while discovering the work on display.
◆ Murder 4 in Vket
This winter, the manor from Murder 4,VRChat's most beloved game world, becomes a Vket exhibition venue.
The weapons and the suspects are gone. In their place, works by creators from around the world lie waiting in the shadows.
Comb every corner as though searching for clues. Something is always hiding.
◆ OKEANOS DESCENT x Vket
In a distant land stands a great tree that buds every year and never blooms.
To one who dreams of seeing it flower, something drifts down from the sky, not a petal, but a ticket.
An invitation to a grand adventure across skies and seas, in search of the Breath.
As long as a bud remains, hope for spring lives on.
Ticket in hand, the journey begins.
Introducing the Creator Exhibit Worlds
◆ Ninja Road
In Neo Ohh-Edo, automation has replaced labor, and humanity has forgotten the value of physical strength.
But one force remains—the NINJA!
Through relentless training, they surpass their limits, showing that strength, loyalty, and discipline never go out of style.
Beneath glowing lanterns and neon light, past the walls of Dejima, a towering castle awaits.
Climb to the top, prove your worth, and carve your own Ninja Road!
◆ World End: Librarium
World End: Librarium. A vast library preserving humanity's memories, its records, and its knowledge.
Among shelves that rise beyond sight, the proof that nameless lives were lived sleeps quietly on.
This is the story of a library at the world's end, a record of an ending, or perhaps a beginning.
◆ The Zoocadiaverse
Welcome to Zoocadiaverse, the Interdimensional Zoo!
Hidden between worlds, Zoocadiavere is home to extraordinary creatures from across dimensions. From dragons and slimes to mythical beasts and unfamiliar lifeforms, every corner holds a new discovery.
Alright, rookie zookeepers! Grab your camera and start snapping!
◆ Tetherford
Cybernetics built Tetherford — a city risen to power on augmented flesh and machine.
Beneath its vast spaceports, a trade hub at the crossroads of the galaxy, rival factions collide. Dreamers, schemers, and dangerous misfits keep arriving, all chasing the same opportunity.
Chaotic, unstable, exhilarating. Edge and cool and sin, all at once.
Welcome to Tetherford. Our city.
◆ Madam Colt’s Wunderkammer
A manor of wonders, built by the collector Madame Colt, filled with curiosities gathered from across the continent. Strange rumors follow them.
That the objects carry their owners' lingering will, and a curse with it. That time bends inside the house.
Still, curiosity is impossible to resist. Step inside, and there may be no turning back.
◆ Casca-Acqua Falls
Welcome to Casca-Acqua, second city of Mahola.
Giant fish fill the lake that rings the town, and everyone fishes together, the water's bounty feeds the whole city.
Each year, the people give thanks to the water and honor the Guardian Kingfish, who ascends the falls. The city erupts in music, celebration, and festival.
Follow the melody to the magnificent Casca-Acqua Falls!
◆ Fallen Eden
Technology has advanced to the point where anything you wish for simply appears. A world of endless stimulation, delivered to you.
A dream. A paradise.
But is this what people truly wanted? Could anyone go on enjoying it forever?
Could we... reach for the fruit of knowledge?
Creator Exhibitor Schedule
Applications for individual creators are open from Tuesday, August 18 to Monday, August 31 at 11:59 PM JST.
See the schedule below for lottery results, submission windows, and other key dates.
Note: All dates and times are Japan Standard Time (JST, UTC+9). Please convert to your local time zone.
Exhibit Types and Fees
Exhibit Type | Available Spaces | Fee |
PC World — Space Exhibit | 658 spaces | ¥3,300 (tax incl.) |
PC World — Item Exhibit | 218 spaces | ¥1,100 (tax incl.) |
Cross-Platform World — Space Exhibit | 40 spaces | ¥3,300 (tax incl.) |
Cross-platform worlds are VRChat worlds that also run on standalone VR headsets and Android devices.
Creator Application
Submit your application at the link below during the application period.
General Exhibitor ApplicationVirtual Market 2026 Winter — Event Overview
Event: Virtual Market 2026 Winter
Organizer: HIKKY Co., Ltd.
Dates: Saturday, December 5 - 20, 2026 (16 days)
Admission: Free
Corporate Exhibition Worlds (VRChat): Parareal Spain / Parareal Yokohama
Vket Official Website: https://vket.com/en
Official Social Media Links:
X : Virtual Market - Global (@enVket) on X
YouTube : VketChan
Instagram : Instagram (@vket_official)
The official Vket Discord server shares the latest news and event updates in real time. Exclusive campaigns and early announcements are also planned for the future. We invite you to join using the link below!
Discord : Join the Virtual Market - Global Discord Server!
About HIKKY Co., Ltd.
Guided by its mission, "Play beyond dimensions!", HIKKY is an XR company that combines virtual culture and creativity with the latest technology to build experiences and content that spark excitement in everyone.
Its core work centers on Virtual Market (Vket), one of the world's largest virtual events, held since 2018, and VketReal, a real-world XR experience event, creating new value at the intersection of the virtual and the real.
CEO: Yasushi Funakoshi
Head Office: Mitomi Building 4F, 1-20-22 Ebisu, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0013, Japan
Founded: May 1, 2018
Corporate Website: https://hikky.co.jp/en
Business Information: https://hikky.co.jp/en/biz
