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Date posted: 24/10/2008 Twinity has announced that it has been awarded funding by the government of Singapore for its development of a virtual equivalent of the city. Twinity is a virtual environment platform which aims to create virtual replicas of the leading cities of the world. They have already built Berlin, with Singapore and London next in the pipeline. As part of the deal, Twinity will also be launching geo-tagging capabilities in the virtual world. Presumably this will involve media assets, such as pictures or videos, of real world places being connected to the virtual equivalent in Twinity. "We're very excited about being awarded funding for launching virtual Singapore, geo-tagging and our other Co-space? projects. We see it as recognition of the strategic importance of a real context for virtual cities for city authorities and local business alike," commented Jeremy Snyder, Managing Director of Metaversum Asia Pte Ltd. He continued, "We look forward to helping Singapore transform itself into the virtual information and communication hub for Asia." See the full Story via external site: www.metaverse-tribune.com Most recent stories in this category (World Specific Developments): 17/05/2013: Google escalates the competition in map services |
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