Catching up with some notes on Twinity

A few weeks ago, around Thanksgiving time, Digital Docent had a note on Twinity:

Twinity Blue Screen of Death Put to Death!: Had it the first time I ran the program, but uninstalled the it and re-installed a newer version.  It works fine now.

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Among the items that caught my attention was that Twinity has mirrors!  And the mirrors reflect mirrors?  I think I finally caught my avatar primping!

Yes, mirrors can reflect mirrors. Check out one of the earliest member-created Twinity videos on YouTube to see it in action.

Also, Sered had a few comments on Twinity progress from early December, notably around Quantum of Solace in Twinity.

the Twinity environment is still improving. It finally begins to feel polished and well integrated, even though it’s still in beta: I’m no longer dreading to start Twinity up, it will no longer crash about every couple of minutes. But incidentally, something still goes wrong.. a teleport failed and I ended up in Twinity heaven!

I hope Twinity heaven is better than the other Twinity afterlife option. 😉

Happy New Year to all Twinizens!

Twinity and the name game

It’s no secret that Twinity is based on the real world. You can see it in our slogan, “Powered by real life,” in our virtual cities like Berlin, in our human avatars with face generation based on real-world photos, and from the fact that people always refer to Twinity as a “mirror world.”Read More

Coming to Twinity from Second Life?

Botgirl has a nice intro to Twinity for SL residents. One highlight from her review:

Although they’ve made a clear effort to simplify their interface, I didn’t find it especially intuitive. That said, after a few hours of effort, I was able to pay more attention to experiencing the world than figuring out how to operate within it.

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Now here’s the fun part: You can clone your Second Life avatar by importing a few images.

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The mirror is especially cool.

Also, the PÖNKblog has some info you might want to check out, and a thought on the avatar created using Twinity’s face generation tool with some SL avatar screenshots.

In a way it looks like a mix of my SL-avatar and my RL-self, which seems fair, as the Twinity-Berlin looks like a mix of SL and RL, too!

Thanks to both of you for your posts!

Give Christmas Gifts in Twinity!

Christmas is the time of year for family and friends to spread joy and cheer! In Twinity, we make it easy for you to offer gifts to friends and soon-to-be-friends, just in time for the holidays!

To give a gift to a fellow Twinizen, just right-click on his or her avatar and select ”give gift” at the bottom of the menu options.

Check out the Twinity Shop and find special Christmas items like a Christmas Cap or Christmas Boots, a Christmas Tree for your apartment and even a giant Candy Cane!

Give these or any other item, object, animation or image from your Inventory and make this Christmas in Twinity a special one!

PS: Submit your screenshots to Eleanor’s X-Mas Photo Contest until 24 December and win a prize! Read contest details here. Good Luck!

Virtual Art: C/O Berlin Gallery’s Opening Party


Twinity, in cooperation with C/O Berlin – International Forum for Visual Dialogues, celebrated its first virtual art exhibition last Friday. Many art appreciating Twinizens enjoyed the photographic works of both ‘wowe . Essence. Twenty-five Years of Portraits’ and ‘Jerry Berndt . Insight . Night Photographs’.
View more screenshots of the successful C/O Berlin Gallery opening party after the jump. Thanks to all who enjoyed the show! Read More

[Operations] New patch, December 15

Dear Twinizens,

We just wanted to let you know that we’ve just deployed a new patch.  When you restart Twinity, the patch to the client will automatically run and update your client.

Thanks,

Craig