Even
though SecondLife has attracted a lot of attention in
China and the first millionaire from SecondLife
is Chinese, this western virtual world has still not been officially
launched in China. But the rapidly growing Chinese Internet apparently could not wait for
it. Last week a Chinese virtual world was launched, named HiPiHi.
It's a SecondLife-like 3D virtual world and it started a limited beta test last week. We had a very nice talk with HiPiHi’s founders, Hui Xu (CEO) and Xinhua Liu, to find out more about this new Chinese
virtual world.
HiPiHi was founded in Beijing in October 2005 as a privately held company funded by GCIG. HiPiHi is the only Chinese virtual world and probably only the second company worldwide after SecondLife to offer a truly collaborative, immersive and open-ended experience for users to create, inhabit and govern a new world of their own design.
