Probably two years ago, Virtual Worlds might be the hottest concept in the web industry and the Internet space were impressed by those pioneers, such as SecondLife, HiPiHi, UWorld, etc… Now the hype is gone and it’s hard to see coverages about 3D virtual worlds on mainstream media any more. However, Chinese virtual worlds are […]
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Tencent Going Global?
It seems that only recently, after a long period of low-wage production for foreign companies, the time has come: Chinese companies are becoming committed to go overseas. Companies such as Lenovo, Haier, and TCL have taken the lead in setting up brand identities overseas and others have followed. But are there any Chinese Internet brands […]
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Three Chinese Virtual Worlds In Conversation
[Ed: This post is republished on KZero which provides strategic insight, research and guidance to companies wishing to maximise metaverse platform. KZero is founded by Nic Mitham. Thank you Nic.] Recently, three pioneers in Chinese virtual world industry, Hui Xu (H.X), founder of HiPiHi, Weijiang Zhan (WJ.Z), founder of NOVOKing and Peng Ye (P.Y), founder […]
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Where The Virtual World Goes? We Need The Real First Life in The Virtual Second Life
Second Life has a real agency based in Beijing as we first reported; Intel is about launching a 160,000 square meters land in HiPiHi; VS Sassoon also set up a virtual salon inside HiPiHi; NOVOKing will announce its partner sooner or later; All sound very exciting, the era of Chinese virtual world seems coming. It […]
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Second Life Has Landed At China Officially With RTMAsia
I wrote a post back in January, asking why Second Life is not officially localized in China yet. Ten months later since then, HiPiHi has become a super star in the virtual world even it is still in private test; NOVOKing is not really following Second Life’s philosophy but it has started private test and has also […]
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A World Waiting For You – NOVOking Launched Private Beta Test
The new Chinese 3D virtual world, NOVOking finally launched its private beta test. I am honored to pay it a visit at the first day. [for English-only readers, NOVOKing also launched its English version website] I wrote about HiPiHi at the first day it launched its private test, I felt like I was reborn. The […]
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Mojikan is the Web Tamagotchi
MOR(F) Dynamics is an Australian based company that wants to bring Tamagotchi-styled messaging to the web, by inventing the Moji Intelligent Messenger, the world’s first fully real-time 3D instant messenger where virtual pets created by users come alive in real time and can understand human language, thereby giving them the ability to chat back to […]
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Breaking: Novoking – The New Chinese 3D Virtual World Unveiled
After nearly 23 month intensive development, another large scale 3D virtual world – Novoking is finally unveiled. We are not sure yet how this new virtual world will stand out in this hottest market, but we do believe the release of Novoking will further drive the popularity of 3D virtual world raised by Second Life, There and HiPiHi. […]
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Is TechCrunch Learning Chinese Web?
If you search for the posts with the keyword ‘China’ on TechCrunch, there are eight posts which are China web related in the past month. The latest one is HiPiHi Seeks To Standardize 3D Worlds And Develop Interoperability which I also covered here. It is quite unusual, I would say. If you ever read a post titled Google […]
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Frenzoo – Girls’ Beautiful Life
[Ed: The following post was actually written 2 weeks ago, but in Chinese with more details. It seems that Frenzoo has now opened its public test, you need apply for the Membership first.] First please allow me to say thanks to two lovely ladies: Eda, thank you very much for inviting me to attend the private test; […]