One of the major new features in our most recent update has to do with lighting in Twinity. It’s called ambient occlusion, and it’s basically an improvement to the shadows and lighting in Twinity. There’s more technical information behind that, but we’ll leave that alone for now. Read the rest of this entry »

Have a look at some skateboarding in Twinity!

Link courtesy of sportsnipe, thanks!

Today we got captivated by the fine style of St. Patrick’s Skaters! We find them all green in the middle of Savignyplatz, a new area of Berlin that is opening this Thursday.

If you would like to get the coolest skateboard ever, have a look in the Red Hip Berlin in virtual Neue Schönhauser Straße 15

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Virtual Berlin Expands!

Metaversum, developer of Twinity, the virtual world based on real people and real cities, is adding famous Kurfürstendamm and Gedächtniskirche (Memorial Church) to Virtual Berlin on March 18th. To mark this occasion, members will be greeted with lots of events and new launches.

Berlin, 17^th March 2010 – After successfully launching downtown Berlin, Singapore and London, the mirror world Twinity is returning home, to open up new areas in the western part of Berlin, with the Kurfürstendamm as its centre.

From 18^th March onwards Twinizens around the world are able to explore Virtual Berlin from the famous Ku’damm in the west to Prenzlauer Berg in the east.

To mark this launch, there will be a grand opening party in front of the historic Gedächtniskirche with Berlin electric duo, Klartraum, performing live at the venue! For a taste of the city’s history, the Virtual Wall Museum, will also have more guided events and tours. But that’s not all; Twinity will also be holding some new competitions, opening some brand new stores and releasing some never seen before items. A list of all the events is available on the Twinity events calendar.

What really makes a city come alive are its people. Twinity offers to give all members a hand with sprouting their roots in the newest areas of Virtual Berlin: be it a new home in the residential area at Savignyplatz or the start of a new business. Members interested in getting new apartments, can find all the details at the Twinity Market place. Parties interested to get more information how to pick up a grand store in the Ku’damm area and become a ‘Commercial Partner’ can write to partner@twinity.com.

Twinity celebrates the launch with a special offer: 5 entrepreneurs or residents based in and around the newly launched areas can win their virtual office, store or apartment at the same address in Virtual Berlin! Real residents should just send their name and real address to berlin@twinity.com.

Over the next few months, Twinity will continue to add more buildings, features and options to all its global cities. There might be a whole new global city, coming soon to Twinity, as well! All further updates and news will be available on the Twinity blog.

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

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Information about Metaversum and Twinity:

Metaversum develops and operates the 3D mirror world Twinity. The vision behind Twinity is to bring the real and the virtual worlds closer together by building realistic replicas of the world’s most vibrant cities in 3D. Berlin, Singapore and London have launched in Twinity, with other exciting cities set to follow them soon. Twinity members can create a personal avatar, explore real cities virtually, move into a 3D home, chat with friends, work, get creative, or just have fun together.

Twinity offers businesses new ways of engaging with real people in real virtual cities. Through virtual shops and branded presences, in-world ad campaigns, product placement, and real and virtual sponsored events, Twinity lets you enter into a genuine, emotive dialog with your target group. Twinity is currently in public beta and open for business. Founded in July 2006 and financed by leading venture capital firms, Metaversum has offices in Berlin, Singapore, Kiev, and Potsdam. More information can be found at www.metaversum.com and www.twinity.com.

There are many new arrivals in Twinity & we do not want anyone being without a home. If you buy an apartment in the new areas of Berlin which costs more than 10 €, you will get 1000 globals as a start-up aid.

Offer is only valid between 10 March – 25 March 2010; and for the new regions of Berlin; (around Potsdamer Platz, Kurfürstendamm, Savignyplatz, Gedächtniskirche).

Find our real estate offers here on twinity.com marketplace.

Here’s the pointer to the post over at Koinup. We over here at Metaversum have put in a lot of effort in welcoming our new members, former Therians or not. I’m glad to see that someone noticed

Metaversum has extended a warm welcome to these new users, by creating a special welcome package for Therians. Metaversums’ Jeremy also stepped in, by writing an honest, open blog entry discussing some of the cited reasons for There’s demise and how Metaversum deals with those issues. He also engages Twinizens (old and new alike) by soliciting specific user feedback, but so far he hasn’t gotten much, which is a bit of a shame. If you have anything to say to Jeremy, please go post your thoughts.

Yes, it really would be great to get more feedback there. Please comment everyone!

And, I want to make sure to highlight the pictures posted on Koinup. Granted, I’m biased, but I do think the Pergamon Museum is very well done.

Our friends over at Koinup continue to attract some of the best and brightest in the metaverse to post cool content over there. One of the latest examples is some of Dee Riley’s pictures of Twinity’s Welcome Area!

Today we found Taha taking the Singapore Tour! He has not been long in Twinity, but he already found his sneakers in the Sneakers Point and wears them everyday!

Dear Twinizens,

We are going to have a downtime to deploy a huge update of Twinity between 9am-10am CET on Monday, March 15th. There are going to be a lot of grand new features to delight you! We’ve also prepared whole new graphics and effects!

We hope you’ll like it!

Comments and suggestions? Just  let us know!

Your Twinity Team

Prompted by two posts on the Twinity Monitor about the demise of There.com and asking about the Therians, I wanted to share some of our plans for Twinity. Read the rest of this entry »