BEIJING / TOKYO, 26 May — Just when you thought you knew all the virtual worlds in the world, iRez sources revealed today that both China and Japan have their own, Sex and Gambling Free, Second Life-Like Virtual Worlds! While everyone at the iRez translation desk was apparently asleep today, it appears that both services may be in-country only and blocking foreign IP addresses. After all, you can’t really have a Joseph DeLappe avatar running around trying to free Tibet, now can you!?
Japan’s Meet-Me:
China’s HiPiHi:
The Meet-Me website is in Japanese and a little hard for this blogger to decipher. The HiPiHi website has an English version that makes signup and software downloading very easy. But when trying to login I get this alert screen, which our uncertain translator thinks might be an IP address block:
R E L A T E D . M A T E R I A L S
• Meet-Me / Wikipedia
• Meet-Me / Academic Commons
• Meet-Me / Fox News
Agnes Sharple
Botgirl Questi
Bumblebee (Wendz Tempest)
Canary Beck
Carissa Arthurine Somerset
Eva Marie
Fuschia Nightfire
George Coghill
Ironyca Lee
Jeremy Owen Turner
Joseph DeLappe
Kathleen Cool
Katie Vizenor
Krista Hoefle
Kristine Schomaker
Lizzie Gudkov
Aero Bigboots
RMarie Beedit
Marmaduke Arado
Isabella Medici
Nadya Tolokonnikova
Nathan Shafer
Pixel Reanimator
Ravanel Griffon
Scarlett Luv
Strawberry Singh
Tabitha Raincloud
Toni Tyldesley
Trilby Minotaur
Vanessa Blaylock
Xue Faith
Yordie Sands
I’m pretty amazed. Geez.. never heard of any of these. Meet.me seems pretty childish but has a lot of functionality. HiPiHi functionally seems to be SL platform. Enlightening!
haha, yes. I never heard of either, either! They both look pretty close to an SL type world… although there may be differences my eye’s unaware of.
I almost got in to try HiPiHi… would have been fun!