HiPiHi, China’s answer to Second Life has opened its doors to the public with a beta test that includes free features. We first wrote about HiPiHi in August 2007 when the company called for the establishment of virtual world standards and interoperability.
German’s are famed for their ability to clone sites, but the Chinese aren’t far behind; HiPiHi looks and feels like Second Life, at least in the demonstration video (in Mandarin above). HiPiHi is available in Chinese and English, and name registration supports both character sets. The service is free to use and register, and like Second Life users can rent land and create their own items.
According to the Second Life Herald, HiPiHi is working with Intel and IBM towards building the platform architecture so that it “is more open, highly scalable and truly inter-operable, in order to lay the groundwork for the mainstreaming of virtual worlds.”
PC only, and although the service is available in English, the download page isn’t.
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A chinese second life? No thanks.
A chinese second life… Good news for 200+ million chinese users
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Home
This will be the end all of 2nd life. It’s not a clone and it’s Japanese.
If you don’t have a PS3, you are out of the loop. When I moved from Canada to LA, my customized PS3 was one of the very few things I could not leave behind.
hmm. could be promising. I’d like to see a standard…that sure would make virtual worlds take off.
i registered one, but I really don’t think it’s the time for China to get involved with this. The marketing issue could be very serious.
But will there be virtual censorship? Will HiPiHi become a watering hole for dissident activities and thought crimes not sanctioned by the good ol’ Party?
I hear Darfur is also making a second life clone…now that should be fun
Matt.. you ever hear of class?? you really need to get some.
you must be very smooth with the ladys.
They probably need a second life clone because there is no freedom, democracy or human rights in their real lives. Particularly if you are from Tibet.
3 Floor:
Hiphi is not a clone of a second life, different platform and scripting language, though they have the same business model.
Sony’s Home is a gaming virtual worlds, there’s huge difference to second life.
4 Floor:
Yeah, i also hope to see a standard, many disperse virtual worlds are composed of a world-wide 3D network.
6 Floor:
Every country has its own traditional cuture and political rules, so in china’s virtual worlds, there is a
difference compared to united states. esp regarding sex, virtual money and political related.
9 Floor:
Partick, Do u know Tibet, do u living in tibet? if u dont have such experience, that make nonsense.
eu condegui baixar mais quando vou entrar no meu nome de avatar nao consigo sera que tem que ser ingles ou japones.