From virtual worlds to mirror worlds

From terrympatterson, over on the Purdue eTech blog:

If you have a Twinity avatar, you can navigate around the mirror city of Berlin guided by a Google mini map.  Without being overcrowded, Berlin’s center offers a few virtual Cafes where you can enjoy conversation via VOIP or text chat. You can also enjoy arts exhibitions and music entertainment.    In Twinity, commercial real estate are buildings reserved to real world owners or tenants who invest “globals”, the twinity currency, in securing their virtual real estate for commercial purposes.  As a private Twinizen, you can rent or own your own apartment in the mirror city and also bring your own 3D objects to your private space. Even though I only had a brief visit to Twinity’s Berlin, I can already see the application of this “mirror” world extending the experience for education as well as for entertainment and convergence.

Raving the Metaverse

Musicians are drawn to Lion City: the next Rocking the Metaverse concert takes place there today!

Doubledown Tandino from the USA and Slim Warrior from England are back again and play live danceable electro sounds for you till your virtual feet are burning! Be there at the first open air rave in virtual Singapore – brought to you by Koinup and Twinity!

Date: Tuesday, 11 August 2009

Time: 20:00 CET / 02:00 Singapore

Place: Singapore in Twinity


Today’s the day! Happy birthday, Singapore, and Virtual Singapore!

The day has finally arrived! Today marks the official opening of Virtual Singapore! We’ll be celebrating the National Day Parade 2009, as the host site of the Celebration @ Orchard Virtual.

  • From 5PM SGT onwards, you’ll be able to view the live real-world viewing sites.
  • At 5:30PM SGT, there will be a live Singapore quiz with great prizes to be won!
  • At 5:45PM SGT, the official NDP theme song will be played. Dance and sing along!
  • From 6PM to 8:30PM SGT, you can watch the main event streamed live
  • At 8:22PM SGT, Twinizens can join the Pledge Moment. Be sure to grab the free pledge animation for your avatar beforehand.
  • And stop by the after-party at Club Cosmo!

Our support team will be in Twinity to show you around. Look for people wearing red NDP guide shirts. They can help.

If you’re attending, please take screenshots and post them around the web! 🙂

Aug 9 in ‘virtual’ Orchard Rd

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 and even set up online businesses.

As part of the launch, and in conjunction with the Republic’s 44th National Day, the virtual area will host several events. These include:

  • A live video stream of the parade from the Marina Bay floating platform.
  • A virtual performance by home-grown band Electrico of this year’s theme song, which it will perform at the parade too.
  • The Pledge Moment, where users can congregate to take the national pledge together at precisely 8.22pm, alongside people in the physical world.

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.

Virtual Singapore now open in Twinity

Twinity, the world’s first mirror world, is launching virtual Singapore – Twinity’s first city in Asia – on August 9th. Wanted: Online pioneers from all over the world to come together and bring this metropolis to life!Read More