Press Release: Welcome to Virtual Miami!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Welcome to Virtual Miami!

The 3D mirror world Twinity keeps growing and opens its first city in the USA. Starting July 30th, Twinizens from all over the world can relax in Virtual Miami. The launch weekend features live events, exciting contests and special offers for all members wanting to stake their claim and bring the city to life.

Twinity Miami South Beach Opening

Twinity Miami South Beach Opening

Berlin, 29 July 2010 – Twinity, the mirror world with real people and real cities just keeps growing and announces the opening of its first American city today: Virtual Miami.

Virtual Miami features a realistic true-to-scale 3D replica of Miami South Beach including the famous Art Déco District around Ocean Drive, famous landmarks like the Versace Villa or The Wolfsonian Museum completed with the glamour, sun and sand of South Beach. Starting July 30th, Twinizens from all over the world can cruise down the streets, swim with sharks, build sandcastles, or party with friends on a yacht.

Twinity extends a warm welcome to Virtual Miami residents from around the world. Members are invited to find their perfect 3D home or open their own business. The first visitors will find exclusive special offers to stake their claim.

“After successfully launching Berlin, Singapore and London we now want to provide our growing U.S. online community a virtual home. Virtual Miami will offer the feel of the eternal summer, the sun and the beach, and it’s all there at the click of a mouse, 24/7,” said Jochen Hummel, founder of Metaversum, the Berlin-based developers of Twinity.

For the opening of Miami, Twinity is celebrating big time. Starting at 9 am EST on Friday, 30th July with an official welcome, the weekend will be bursting with several live music events, beach activities and contests!

Twinity offers all its members a chance to put down roots in the new World, from a new home to the start of a new business. More information on how to live the American Dream virtually can be found at www.twinity.com/en/miami.

The virtual world Twinity is currently in public beta. Register for free membership at www.twinity.com and start exploring the world today.

Cities interested in building a 3D representation can find more information here: www.twinity.com/en/mycity.

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Information about Metaversum and Twinity:

Metaversum develops and operates the 3D mirror world Twinity. The vision behind Twinity is to bring the real and the virtual worlds closer together by building realistic replicas of the world’s most vibrant cities in 3D. Berlin, Singapore, London and Miami have launched in Twinity, with other exciting cities set to follow them soon. Twinity members can create a personal avatar, explore real cities virtually, move into a 3D home, chat with friends, work, get creative, or just have fun together.

Twinity offers businesses new ways of engaging with real people in real virtual cities. Through virtual shops and branded presences, in-world ad campaigns, product placement, and real and virtual sponsored events, Twinity lets you enter into a genuine, emotive dialog with your target group. Twinity is currently in public beta and open for business. Founded in July 2006 and financed by leading venture capital firms, Metaversum has offices in Berlin, Singapore, Kiev, and Potsdam. More information can be found at www.metaversum.com and www.twinity.com.

Twinity Social Media Newsroom: www.twinity.com/en/newsroom

Do you have any questions or require additional material?

Barbara Ecker
Senior Manager Communication & Brand
Metaversum GmbH
Rungestrasse 20 | 10179 Berlin
E: barbara@metaversum.com
F: +49 30 847 12 25 – 23

sered on Twinity: it’s “busy in here”

sered has a good update on what’s going on in Twinity, noted on Koinup.

Tonight I had my first hour in Twinity after my holiday, and it has gotten markedly busier over that timeframe. There were almost fourty people at the opening party of the new Hanging Palms club in Ibiza, and the Twinity Welcome area housed well over 30 people at the same time. Many other Twinizens were spread all over the world, so it was quite busy, for a weekday in summertime. And I have the pictures to prove it:

Downtime: Monday 26th July, 13:45 CET

Dear Twinizens,

We’ll have an update of Twinity today. Expect a downtime of about 15 minutes around 13:45  CET. The update will introduce a new signup and download on the web and solve several bugs and enhancements on the server side.

Your Twinity Team

And the Twinity Community Award goes toooo…..

For the very first time in the young history of the 3D online world Twinity, the virtual world with real people in real cities, single community members have been honored with the Twinity Community Award for their skills, attitude and engagement in Twinity.

The 1st edition of the Twinity Community Awards has been a big success! We are very proud of all the Twinizens attended , nominated and awarded, because thanks to all of them our community is growing to a big, huge family!

The evening started in front of the Brandenbuger Tor with the Red Carpet Photo Shoot: all the nominees posed with their gowns and tuxedos next to personalities such as Jochen Hummel and Mirko Caspar, CEO and CMO of Metaversum respectively. Both of them are really amazed by the unstoppable creativity of the Twinizens.

Once the Twinity Paparazzi had done their job, the community headed to the Bitfilm Bitropolis Cinema where the ceremony was held. Every category was announced and Twinizens voted privately to their favourite nominee. Here is the list with the winners of the night!

  • Most beautiful avatar: Icat
  • Best ambassador of Twinity: Swen
  • Best event host: Princess Lily
  • Best racing track designer: Ray
  • Best shop item designer: Glenn
  • Best Fashion Designer: Helen
  • Best Decorator: Kyoko
  • Best 3D Designer: Björn
  • Special Prize for Education: Language School Hungarian (Nimrod)
  • Most Helpful Twinizen: Kuhl
  • Best Photographer: Nadia
  • Best Movie Maker: Lourenco
  • Best Twinity Blogger: Dee
  • Best Couple in Twinity: Casimero and Yuna

To prove his skills as Best Movie Maker, Lourenco made this video of the Ceremony! If you would like to watch all his creations, have a look at this Youtube Channel!

We want to thank every single Twinizen for being a part ot Twinity. Without you the world would not be like it is and still will become in the future.

Your Twinity Team

Items of the week

There’s a whole slew of new items coming into Twinity’s shops this week:

Show everyone who your true love is! Go to Eros in Action and get a candy heart that makes a perfect present for all the special Twinizens in your life!

If you’re looking to spruce up your digs, why not go romantic? Visit the Baroque Shop to see a full new selection of baroque and deco furniture to add some noble and dreamy style to your pad. Be there and get a free gift at the grand opening.

With the cushions from the 2D shop you can sit down anywhere in your location – you can even have a picnic on the roof!

Heart Necklace Barock Baby Bed Sit Cushion Round
Heart Necklace Barock Baby Bed Sit Cushion Round