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Quarter for quarter, investments in virtual worlds are actually dropping quite rapidly. In Q4 $101 million was invested in 13 virtual worlds-related companies; in Q3 this number was $148.5 million, in Q2 it was $161 million, and in Q1 it was $184 million. Still, these huge investments show both how big the virtual worlds space really is and the fact that there's still plenty of VC money to go around.
Things might look bad for the economy, but when there's tens of millions invested in virtual worlds each month, things are either looking up, or perhaps we haven't hit the bottom just yet.