Last May we wrote about a virtual world called MyMiniLife where you can construct and furnish virtual homes that look like those you’d find in The Sims, except smaller and more pixelated.
If this is your cup of tea, then perhaps you’ll be interested in a new MyMiniLife tool for importing real life objects into cyberspace. These items can be added to your own homes or shared with (i.e. sold to) other users. I’ve used it to import the Crunchies Award, shrinking it and yet making it life-size at the same time.
All that’s needed to import an object is a camera for taking four isometric shots, and a moderately functional photo editing application. A green screen is recommended, but who has one of those lying around? I found that you can do just fine without one if you have decent Photoshop skills. See the video demonstration at the bottom of this post to get an idea of the process.
MyMiniLife has been testing this feature for two months with beta users who have already uploaded 9,000 items. The company, which operates on angel funding, claims 750,000 users total and 9M page views per month.
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Do they have credit crunch in virtual world?
The things people think of! Neat!
@Everett thanks! We think it’s neat too
@sky no but you can escape the credit crunch by joining MyMiniLife
Damm Cool!
Some of the stuff you review is nuts.
Stuff like these are just a waste of time. The creators obviously have too much time and money .
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I’d normally have no interest in something like this but your addition of a monkey makes it ten-times more interesting…..
@xowanna010playxo I think that’s the idea
It’s supposed to be a time waster. We do enjoy creating the site. It seems like other people like creating homes as well:
check out the recently updated today:
http://www.myminilife.com/minihomes.php
@scottdc - hah, that was the point. I’m glad someone appreciated it.
funny, that house with the grass is taken from some free wallpaper site…
ZAO the fair enough , but congrats on the user count and pageviews. No matter what site or venture it is those are impressive figures.
@Thomas We’ve already redesigned the site, we’ll be shortly rolling out a new version. We’re still a small startup
pretty cool, but I think I will stick with http://www.citypixel.com as my virtual world destination for now.
This is really messy - isometric view by definition has no perspective. A natural photograph does, thats why the imported objects look slightly wrong and dont sit well in that environment. Nasty.
MyMiniLife sucks….. Nothing original about the concept.
I know many people who have tried it and not 1 ever went back…..
Way to go UofI! I remember the Daily Illini article on this. Glad you guys made it to TC. Good luck and keep up the good work!
User generated items made using a camera and photochop placed within user generated worlds … all in a distributed widget. This rocks!
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