[Operations] Twinity Patch November 13, 2009

Dear Twinizens,

We just release a small patch minutes ago which fixes some issues related to delays in the loading of tutorials. No new features were included in this patch.

Thanks,

Craig

Berlin Wall lecture “Border Regime and Border Guards” – today in Twinity

The Berlin Wall, today & 20 years ago: you can experience yourself how big the difference is in Twinity’s open air wall museum.

To truly understand the history behind it we recommend you our second lecture by Cornelia Thiele today. The historian is going to explicate “Border Regime and Border Guards” live on site at the former border area and in English language.

Date: Thursday, 12 November
Time: 18:00 CET
Location: virtual Berlin

Berlin Wall Lecture by Cornelia Thiele

The APEC Singapore Showcase in Twinity

APEC 2009

APEC 2009

2009 marks Singapore’s turn as host of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (or APEC), the intergovernmental grouping that seeks to facilitate economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region. Twinity is currently hosting a multimedia showcase of the event. This event is closed to the public, and this is exclusive access in Twinity!!!

You can visit all of this in Twinity, at the Suntec Convention Centre, which is now open in Virtual Singapore in Twinity!

ChannelNewsAsia on APEC in Twinity

It’s a busy week in Twinity, with the Berlin Wall broadcasting and coverage. There’s also the APEC Summit, that will be virtually hosted in Twinity. You’ll hear more about that from us soon, but ChannelNewsAsia has already started the coverage.

The Singapore Showcase experience will also be available on a virtual platform – Virtual Singapore in Twinity. It is available here and will feature the APEC 2009 Leaders’ Week by creating an immersive, multi-user experience for its members through the use of embedded video and 3D models of key content developed specially for the project.