Word has surfaced in IT Media News (Japanese) of a new 3D virtual world out of Japan apparently named meet-me and funded in part by trans cosmos. meet-me (at least in this article) is being positioned as similar to Second Life. A Google Translate provides some attempt at translation.
From what we can tell from the Google translated article:
- expected to be released this winter
- no adult content (women and children welcome)
- replicates real world Tokyo
- replicates shopping - so there will be some type of ecommerce or transaction economy.
- Runs on Windows Vista but plans call for other platforms including mobile phones
- The real world seems to effect the virtual one - If season and also the weather the actual world reflect should have made, in Tokyo the cherry tree has bloomed, and the cherry tree blooms in the hypothetical space, if the rain falls in Tokyo, the rain falls in the hypothetical space, that - - it makes the shape which was said.
- Users can build a range of items including houses
From the Article (Thanks to Komuso Tokugawa for newslink):
Tokyo town was reproduced to real, the 3D hypothetical space like Second Life is released to this winter. It removes the adult contents, it strikes out the difference with Second Life by the fact that operation is made simple, also the child and the woman that try it can enjoy.
The joint venture enterprise cocoa of the trance cosmos and the [huromu] software and the industrial economic newspaper publishing company announced that June 5th, 3D hypothetical spatial “meet-me” ## edition on the net like “Second Life” is released to this winter. You say that it makes the service where inside the 3D space which reproduces Tokyo town to real, the user builds the house freely and/or can do shopping.
We'll have more as we know more.
Anyone know of any videos of Meet-Me?
Is there an English language registration page?
Posted by: SuezanneC Baskerville | January 28, 2008 at 12:44 PM
It said its coming out winter, and the post date said june 5, 2007, SEVEN, thats 2 years ago. it must be out by now, where can i play it?! D:
Posted by: haha | June 29, 2009 at 06:59 PM