NGI Group Announces 3Di.jp, An Asian Virtual World Software Development House

The NGI Group, formerly Netage Capital, announced a reorganization in June to reposition itself as a tech holding company and better take advantage of emerging media markets such as virtual worlds. A subsidiary group, 3Di.jp, was created to address virtual worlds, looking at " 5 primary lines of business related to Virtual Worlds development and services that will effectively represent the company's charter." On the technology front,  3Di has developed and announced a Web-based Second Life browser. From the screenshot, it looks like the company is avoiding the avatar approach, but instead allowing users to chat, search, access information on their friends an groups lists, and work with their inventory. It will also display the user's location on the map. The browser is accessible from PCs and certain mobile devices

Thanks to Jefferey Pope, who is working with 3Di.jp as an exclusive consultant, for translating the press release below (Jefferey will be speaking at Virtual Worlds Conference in San Jose in October):

In a mid June press release it was announced that NGI group (formerly Netage Capital) of Tokyo Japan has reorganized itself into a technology holding company. This move was made to better structure the company to take advantage of emerging media markets such as virtual worlds and other technology trends.

In line with this change, NGI group has created a subsidiary company known as 3Di.jp. 3Di will focus on the burgeoning Virtual Worlds middle ground business, and has outlined 5 primary lines of business related to Virtual Worlds development and services that will effectively represent the company's charter.
3Di will not be focusing solely on the Japanese market. Rather, they will leverage existing contacts and partnerships to build their business across Asia. On the technology side 3Di has already produced results on enabling Second Life access through a browser as reported on their official blog and news portal. By this engineering development, sending and receiving information via a browser and some mobile devices to Second Life becomes possible.

Heading up the team at 3Di is President and CEO Tsuyoshi Ogawa. Mr Ogawa comes from Netage Capital and has an extensive background in business development. Next is CTO Toshitaka Jiku who is primarily responsible for all of the technology related solutions including the effort to port Secondlife onto a browser.

Going forward 3Di will aggressively be seeking to develop their business on all fronts and is open to receiving inquiries related to Virtual World related market opportunities in Asia and abroad.