Today we’re launching the Light edition of our first Mars Jacket. You’ll find everything you need on this page along with the full story behind it. This launch brings together everything we love – from crazy material science, to space exploration, to designing for problems that are coming down the line in 2 to 20 years.
For those of you waiting for the Dark edition of the Mars Jacket, that’s launching in exactly 24 hours. And we’ll be sending you the link at 9am LA, midday in NY, 5pm London, and 6pm Berlin on Thursday 11th November. Following on from the launch of yesterday’s race in the metaverse, and the number of people on the waiting list, we expect the jackets to go quickly.
If you’re here to find out if anyone won the race to our virtual store on Mars, here’s who made the podium...
In first place was Christian A from California in a crazy time of 6 hours 36 minutes. Considering we gave you no clues, including buying the land under a pseudonym, we were blown away by the speed. The store itself was hidden in one of the 90,000 plots of land in Decentraland, and looked like a black box just lying on the ground.
In second place was Giulio D from London who arrived within an hour of Christian.
Then a few hours ago in third place was Benjamin L from France (he’s the avatar with the eye patch in the pictures below). Benjamin’s story of how he found it is a whole email in itself. “I scream with joy,” was our favourite quote.
We’d like to thank everyone who took part in yesterday’s race to the store. If you found the store and the code in the last 24 hours but arrived too late, let us know by hitting reply to this email, and we’ll sort you out with something cool.
Or if you’d like to go and visit the store for yourself – and we’re pretty sure it’s the first virtual store built on a virtual planet – you can find it at these coordinates –148,–124. The code, for those of you who like hidden details, was the abbreviated landing co-ordinates of the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity. And they could be found on the chest of the Mars Jacket in the store. And next month our new store will be going full Matrix, so that’s one to be on standby for.
With the first three Mars Jackets heading to our winners, you can now get yours. The jacket comes in 6 sizes from XS to XXL, and we recommend getting in touch with us here if you want a hand with sizing.