VastPark seems to be ramping up its announcements -- out of the Virtual Worlds conference, it's revealed a couple of new partnerships. Just prior to the event, it signed an agreement with NICTA, Australia's Information and Communications Technology Research Center, and held its first multi-user stress test.

Now it's formed a relationship with TurboSquid to access that company's catalog of 3D models. TurboSquid claims more than 195,000 3D models in its library, and VastPark users will have access to them to build their own virtual spaces.

TurboSquid CEO Matt Wisdom explained the benefit on their end: “Our independent sellers, the artists who create all the content for sale at our site, will now enjoy increased exposure to a new and incredibly vast marketplace of users.”

Next up, VastPark also revealed it would be running its virtual economy on Twofish's Elements engine. That means each VastPark user who creates an online world will be able to create and administrate their own individual currencies, set the valuation of their own goods, and manage their own markets. In other words, user-generated words may now have user-generated economies, too.

VastPark founder and CEO Bruce Joy explained, "This is a new step in bringing economic power to the masses. We also see it as a fundamental way for us to build value in our platform, as it allows for the creation of realistic, responsive and highly customizable virtual worlds.”