Machinima Contest – “Powered by Real Life”

“Powered by real life” is the name of Twinity’s Machinima Contest – supported by Koinup, Wikinima and Bitfilm. Send us your impressions from Twinity and maybe win some cool prizes! The contest is about filming machinima in Twinity and post the videos on the group pool at Koinup .

Content topics:

1st: “HUMOUR”: You’re invited to inflate your video with a bit of humour! Remember: Virtual Life is a bit more easy and humourous of the real one.

2nd: “POWERED BY REAL LIFE”: Twinity is a virtual world that mashes virtual and real. Twinity is not about escaping from reality but it is more about empower it.

3rd: “CITY RELATED”: You can set in Virtual Berlin and/or Virtual Singapore!

The contest starts on 15 July 2009 – please find all the detailed rules here.

[Operations] Twinity update July 21, 2009

Dear Twinizens,

We are in the process of releasing a major update to Twinity today that brings quite a few new features. The update will finish within the next hour, however, we just wanted to provide a short summary of what is included in this update:

– VoIP volume adjustment
– Chat notification to Owner / Tenant when member has entered their location
– Camera behavior in simple controls
– People online and location displayed
– New radio – Faster connection speed, browse online stations and add favorites
– Ability to set view control hotkeys
– Tooltips on Minimap Icons
– Automatic client Re-Login should client become disconnected
– Ability to turn off browsers for low performance machines
– Further reduction of install file size
– Fixed some issues related to avatars sitting incorrectly

Thanks,
Craig

Big day for us: Minister of Finance of Singapore Tharman Shanmugaratnam visited the Metaversum office to learn more about how to build a startup company

Berlin, 17 July 2009 – Today Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister for Finance of Singapore and Chairman of Economic Strategies Committee has visited the Metaversum office in Berlin. The Minister was accompanied by the following delegation:

  • HE Mr. Jacky Foo, Ambassador of Singapore to Germany
  • Mr. Jonathan Pflug, Associate (Economic Strategy), Ministry of Finance
  • Ms. Eirliani Abdul Rahman, First Secretary (Political), Singapore Foreign Service
  • Mr. Jason Tang, Director Germany, Singapore EDB
  • Mr Vignes Sellakannu, Director Germany, Singapore EDB

Jochen Hummel, CEO of Metaversum and Norbert R. Meinike, Head of Marketing, gave the whole delegation a warm welcome. During the two hour visit, our guests learned more about how Metaversum had been built up, how we are working on realizing the vision of a 3D mirror world and about Berlin’s advantages as a centre for creative  enterprises. Minister Shanmugaratnam and Ambassador Jacky Foo also enjoyed a chat with Metaversum staff while they were shown around the office. The Minister finally was not only impressed by his avatar but also from the first parts of Virtual Singapore and the possibilities of a real virtual world like Twinity to bring people together on a worldwide scale.

Singapore Minister of Finance visiting Metaversum

Tharman Shanmugaratnam in Virtual Singapore

Metavesum welcomes the Singapore Minister of Finance and Ambassador of Singapore to Germany

Metaversum prepared for the visit

Present for Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam

Meet the Twinity team in-world

We’ll be starting a semi-regular series of in-world meetings in Twinity. These are just designed to chat and get to know Twinizens, and let Twinizens get to know the people on the other side of the servers. Bring your questions, comments, etc, and let’s talk.

I’ll be kicking this off tomorrow night Singapore time in the Tutorial Area at 10PM Singapore time, 4PM CET (Berlin), 10AM EST (New York).

Win an iPod nano by taking part in our small Twinity survey

Dear Twinity-Fans,

We would like to ask for your participation in a survey. We would like to know, which options in Twinity you use and what you would wish for, in Twinity.
As a thank-you for completing our survey, we will be giving away two iPod nano among all survey respondents.
Click here for the survey.
Thank you very much for your valuable support!

Kind regards,

Your Twinity Team