Helen at Oranienburgerstraße, in front of the Berlin Synagogue.

If you like Helen’s skirt and fishnet leggins, get them in The Punk Rock Store in Twinity!

Over on the Twinity Monitor – some great shots there!

Twinizens surprise us everyday with new styles walking around Berlin, Singapore and London. So we decided to capture their looks and show the whole world why we do have the most fashionista avatars! Check out for the Avatar of the Day!

Today’s Avatar: Jean at Trafalgar Square

sered posted about the expansion of Virtual London:

Famous landmarks along the Thames river such as the Big Ben, the Westminster Abbey and the ‘London Eye’ became available. Due to family matters I couldn’t spend too much time, and it was already evening, but here’s a few snapshots of the Westminster Abbey and the London Eye, the way a real world tourist would never be able to view them. Enjoy!

That’s a really interesting point, and one I hadn’t considered so much – you can see things from so many different angles and perspectives, in ways that you really couldn’t in real life. Neat!

As reported by the Twinity Monitor here.

Here’s the link, with some great pictures!

Metaversum, developer of Twinity, the virtual world based on real people and real cities, is adding new areas to the beta of Virtual London on February 3rd. To mark this occasion, members will be greeted with lots of events and new launches.

Berlin, 2 February 2010 – After successfully launching various parts of Central London, the mirror world Twinity is opening up more areas in Virtual London.

These areas will include famous buildings and monuments, from the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace to the Millennium Bridge, and the Trocadero. With this, Virtual London, will have grown to the east and south of its present spread, while also marking a foray across the virtual Thames.

From the 3rd of February onwards, Twinity is celebrating this launch by showcasing the creative expression of its global community. From art exhibitions to live music gigs, all Twinizens will have a chance to display their work to the entire community, receive comments, or link to other websites.

If you want to join the fun and share your talent: Display pictures, put up photographs, host an event, broadcast your film, share your poetry, drop us a line at London@twinity.com, and we’ll help you on the road to community stardom.

For those who want to sit back and watch the community at play, Twinity London will be hosting a variety of tours and contests in and around these newly launched parts. For more information on these events have a quick look here: www.twinity.com/en/events.

Twinity celebrates this launch with a special offer: 5 residents and entrepreneurs based in and around the areas mentioned above can win their virtual apartment, office or store at the same address in Virtual London! These spaces will be given away, for free for the next one year, just send your name and real address to London@twinity.com and we’ll handle the rest!

This isn’t the end of the expansion! Over the next few months, Twinity will continue to add more buildings, spaces, features and options to Virtual London. Join the Virtual London fan page on Facebook for the latest updates: http://www.facebook.com/virtual.london.

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

Download the digital press kit with screenshots and videos here:
http://press.twinity.com/press_kit/
(This link is for internal editorial department use only)

Do you have any questions or require additional material?
Your personal contact partner is happy to assist you:

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

Virtual London has been live for several weeks now. We have a poll where you can give us your opinion with a simple vote, but please, tell us more in the comments! What do you like about Virtual London? What do you not like? What more would you like to see there?

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The Altes Museum in Virtual Berlin is online, and the Twinity Monitor paid a visit.

As usual, I was blown away by the architecture (I’m an architecture nut) as well as the attention to detail.

There’s some nice pictures over there, so give it a look!

We released a new version of our core engine today, which mainly includes a new user interface rendering system that improved the performance of UI rendering significantly.

The new UI renderer automatically groups all UI elements into texture atlases. This makes it possible to draw the UI elements with much less draw-calls and therefore leaves more performance for rendering the 3d part of the scene.

Two small issues are already identified (black icon textures) and will be fixed with the next hot-fix patch.