Lunarez

the metaverse space agency

Business model

Initial fundraising will be based on Lunarez membership and sponsorship campaigns. The money will be used to complete the development of the Lunarez sim in Second Life, to establish initial design and prototyping capabilities, and to pay for a Lunarez mission system study that will result in detailed system specifications to be used for the design and development of a lunar mission that may participate in the Google Lunar X PRIZE. At this stage, we will be ready for a new funding round.

Even with creative cost-saving devices like an open source development model based on low-cost consumer-level engineering, and cheaper contractors, the Google Lunar X PRIZE will probably NOT be sufficient to recover Lunarez mission costs (a current best case estimate is 40-50M US dollars). The viability of the business plan depends on making money independently of the prize. The prize money will, however, permit recovering an important part of the investment immediately.

The realistic lunar look&feel of the Lunarez sim will make it suitable as a virtual set for commercials and/or educational film productions.

A Lunarez company will be incorporated in a convenient location and become a leading player at the intersection of the space and virtual entertainment industries. Lunarez will develop a global participative “space community 2.0” in virtual reality: the metaverse space agency.