From the Straits Times article “Aug 9 in ‘virtual’ Orchard Rd”: THIS National Day, Orchard Road may be a hive of activity – both in the real and virtual worlds. Twinity’s maker, a virtual world developer, is launching an online realisation of Singapore’s iconic shopping strip on Aug 9, where users can make virtual friends, visit online galleries, go shopping …
Life on Line, August 1, 2009
Here’s the latest episode of Life on Line, with an interview with me about Twinity. As always, please see the disclaimer at the bottom.
IDM in the NDP
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Orange Island, Remap Berlin
Read more here: Let’s talk about Remap Berlin. Why are you interested in the virtual replica of a real world city? I am interested in how we are building the metaverse. How we shape the virtual space. I think that we are at the very beginning of all that. I am interested in Twinity, because it is a mirror world.
more from a wonderful star’s walk
From “more orchard road“, which has a bunch of nice screenshots: Another thing that’s really awesome in this game is the animations. Animations like dancing can be purchased from the shop too, and clicking on them lets your avatar do some really cool moves. The amount of detail that must be needed to animate all these is really astonishing.
a wonderful star’s walk is wonderful
in addition to the great name, there’s a nice post on virtual singapore. 🙂
More on Powered by Real Life machinima contest
Our friends at Koinup have posted a bunch about the contest, like last week’s promo event, the announcement, and the trailer. Also, Hiperia3D has picked it up. We’re looking forward to seeing your entries!
MixedRealities on Twinity Singapore
From their post on it: Virtual worlds can be useful for bringing nations together, or for enhancing the reputation of nations. The Obama administration uses social media not only to mobilize people in the US, but also to influence public opinion worldwide. Another example of the promotion of nations by using social media/virtual worlds is Singapore.
Makers of Universes
OK, so this is nothing new, since I’m sure most of you have seen our virtual Singapore NDP 2009 video by now, but I just love the name of this site: Makers of Universes They’ve also embedded our video. 🙂
Slog on Twinity
Or should that be a command, like “Slog on, Twinity!”? Anyway, over on the Slog blog, there’s an post about Twinity called “It’s not weal life, it’s Twinity.”