Mirko Caspar CMO Twinity named Leading Visionary – itsReal

IBM, SUN, METAVERSUM & SIMUTRONICS JOIN VASTPARK, AVALOOP, CCP GAMES, CODEMASTERS&RIVERS RUN RED TO SPEAK AT CONFERENCE IN LONDON, 10th JULY

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June 19th, 2008

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These key players are all at the forefront of developing the de facto standards for virtual world platforms. They all lend their inside view to the vital debate about the opportunity and direction of virtual worlds and the visual web for the next 6-12 months.

This is a welcome chance to catch up with some of the leading developers who are behind the revolution of interactive digital brands, games and business communications on the emerging immersive Visual Web. Together they will enlighten the audience on the near-term opportunities, risks and rewards for developers, agencies, publishers and corporates; tying in the key but disparate issues right now of widgets&gadgets, virtual worlds, games and social networks.

The current head-count of 10 leading visionaries speaking at the conference includes:

• Dr Mirko Caspar– CMO, Metaversum a leading virtual worlds developer

• Neil Harris– Executive VP, Simultronics developer of the HeroEngine

• Bruce Joy – CEO of virtual worlds platform developer VastPark

• Thomas Bidaux -Development VP virtual world games developer Avaloop

• David Solari – VP Online games publisher Codemasters

• Thor Gunnarsson – VP CCP Games (Eve Online)

• Bernard Horan – Senior Engineer Sun Microsystems (the Wonderland platform)

• Rob Davis – CEO Solaris Media a leading developer of casual virtual world games for broadcasters (e.g. UKTV, BBC)

• Justin Bovington – CEO Rivers Run Red a leading in-world brands and media communications agency

• Ian Hughes– Metaverse Evangelist IBM

The sessions provide delegates with a 6–12 month strategy roadmap based on clear case studies for monetizing the Visual Web and online communities.

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Dr. Mirko Caspar joins the AVW Global Ambassadors Program – itsReal

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Dr. Mirko Caspar joins the AVW Global Ambassadors Program

Co-Founder and CMO for Metaversum GmbH, developer and operator of the 3D online world www.twinity.com, Mirko Caspar accepts invitation to be part of the Association of Virtual Worlds Global Ambassadors Program.

Singapore, 18 June 2008 – At the invitation of the Association of Virtual Worlds, Mirko Caspar, co-founder and CMO for Metaversum GmbH is pleased to become an AVW Global Ambassador representing Germany in this vital and growing association and worldwide network of professionals interested in forwarding the cause of Virtual Worlds development.

“The AVW is about outreach and education. Reaching out through our global membership to all corners of the physical world will allow the AVW to more quickly and efficiently, through the entire range of international perspectives, demonstrate the power of virtual worlds to bring people together, as if in person, despite distance, I warmly welcome MR. Caspar as a Global Ambassador” says Dave Elchoness, Executive Director, AVW.

In this voluntary capacity Mirko Caspar will seek to fulfill the programs aims. The Global Ambassadors program is meant to ensure that the AVW’s positive message about virtual worlds has a truly global reach. Global Ambassadors seek out new members for the AVW in their geographic area of the physical world. They also inform the AVW leadership and membership of particular virtual worlds-related items coming out of their geographic area that may be of interest.

“I am extremely pleased and honored to be invited to be a part the AVW Global Ambassadors Program and look forward to bringing a positive impact to the growth of AVW here in my home country, Germany and around the globe,” said Mirko Caspar.

About Metaversum and Twinity:

Metaversum develops and operates the 3D online world Twinity. This visionary endeavor mashes up the real with the virtual world. Twinity offers its members the ability to populate the digital world with their own avatars, design 3D homes, communicate with friends, engage in shared media experiences, work or simply have fun. Members of the Twinity community enrich and expand their lives by integrating real life into the virtual world. Twinity is currently in its private beta phase. Founded in July 2006 and financed by leading venture capital firms, Metaversum has offices in Berlin and Kiev. For more information: www.metaversum.com and www.twinity.com.

About Association of Virtual Worlds:

The Association of Virtual Words is a global industry association for the rapidly growing virtual worlds industry. It serves as a resource for those wishing to experiment and explore virtual worlds for work or play. The Association’s mission is to educate, network, recruit, and further the membership’s collective goals. For more information please visit www.assocaitionofvirtualworlds.com

The First Digital Film Festival on the 3D Internet: Twinity and Bitfilm Open Virtual Art City

Metaversum, the developer and operator of the 3D online world www.twinity.com, is the official partner of the Bitfilm Digital Film Festival.

This year’s Bitfilm Festival for digital film will also be taking place on the three-dimensional internet for the very first time. As official cooperation partner, Metaversum GmbH from Berlin has created the virtual art city ‘Bitropolis’ for Bitfilm within the 3D online world, Twinity.

Bitropolis is the virtual home of the Bitfilm Festival and houses a cinema, art gallery, and bar, where festival fans can gather for a virtual drink after the film. Filmmakers and 3D artists can also rent their own studio cube within Bitropolis and host special film screenings or exploit the space for other creative ideas. The studio cubes, which can also be used as a personal exhibition space for videos, music, or 3D objects, are located all around the Bitropolis cinema, where nominated festival films will be screened.

“Bitropolis is a wonderful example of the vision that we are pursuing with the virtual world Twinity. Real events, such as the Bitfilm Festival in Stuttgart and Hamburg, are given a whole new dimension when they are transferred into a virtual world. We thus enable users from all around the world to take part in the festival and experience the best featured films,” comments Dr. Mirko Caspar, CMO of Metaversum GmbH.

The Bitfilm Festival 2008 is running from 01 May to 12 July. Users who wish to visit Bitropolis can register online via the following websites:

http://www.twinity.com/de/bitfilm

http://www.bitfilm.com/ bitropolis

Metaversum fills Key Roles for Twinity.com – itsReal

Lars Smidt and Andreas van de Castel join Metaversum

Metaversum GmbH, developer and operator of the 3D online world www.twinity.com, expands its team in preparation for the launch.

Lars Smidt and Andreas van de Castel join MetaversumMetaversum GmbH, developer and operator of the 3D online world http://www.twinity.com, expands its team in preparation for the launch.Lars Smidt (36) and Andreas van de Castel (27) join Metaversum GmbH with immediate effect as Head of Online Marketing and Head of Product Management respectively. In his new position, Lars Smidt is responsible for all online marketing activities for the virtual world, Twinity. Andreas van de Castel is responsible for the conceptional design and implementation of new community features in Twinity. “Lars Smidt and Andreas van de Castel have many years’ experience working in successful internet companies. The focus of Lars Smidt’s previous position at FriendScout24 was on the acquisition of new members. He will now be performing this key task for Twinity, as well as promoting communication both with and within the user community. Andreas van de Castel played a decisive role in shaping product development at studiVZ. We are very happy to welcome such capable reinforcements for these key areas,” confirms Dr. Mirko Caspar, CMO of Metaversum GmbH.Lars Smidt joins Metaversum GmbH from FriendScout24, the largest German-language dating platform, where he worked as Head of Online Marketing. Andreas van de Castel was previously employed as Head of Product Management at studiVZ, Germany’s largest online social network.You can find out more about Twinity at: http://www.twinity.com

About Metaversum:

Metaversum develops and operates the 3D online world Twinity. This visionary endeavor mashes up the real with the virtual world. Twinity offers its members the ability to populate the digital world with their own avatars, design 3D homes, communicate with friends, engage in shared media experiences, work or simply have fun. Members of the Twinity community enrich and expand their lives by integrating real life into the virtual world. Twinity is currently in its private beta phase. Founded in July 2006 and financed by leading venture capital firms, Metaversum has offices in Berlin and Kiev.

For more information: http://www.metaversum.com and http://www.twinity.com.

pick of the week: Metaversum Using Singapore as “Gateway to Asia”; Aiming at Co-Space?

Singapore will be the hub for Metaversum to take its upcoming mirror world, Twinity, into Asia, reports Today Online. “Singapore is a gateway to Asia, with access to native speakers of the main Asian languages, a stable business and intellectual property environment with a well-educated workforce,” said Metaversum co-founder and CMO Dr. Mirko Caspar. In February, Metaversum announced that it would be using Pacific West Communications to conduct integrated marketing campaigns for the virtual world in Singapore.

Read more at: Virtual Worlds News

media interview: Twinity makes Singapore Asian Hub – itsReal

As reported in Today Newspaper, Lead Technology story page 54, May 9 2008 – Metaversum the creators of a new virtual world called Twinity – plan to make Singapore its’ Asian Regional Hub

Dr Mirko Caspar – co founder & cmo, Metaversum talks to Hedirman Supian of the Today Newspaper

Text Version: Today Online

PDF Version: Today Online

Mirko Caspar, CMO Metaversum to join games philosophy panel – itsReal

Mirko Caspar, CMO Metaversum, the creators of the virtual world Twinity to join games philosophy Open World panel on May 9th 2008.

The Philosophy of Computer Games

– an international conference discussing computer games from a philosophical perspective.

OPEN WORLDS PANEL to be held on Friday evening, 9th May 2008, 18:00h.

Please register for attendance at the conference. Registration is open to all and there is no conference fee.

The conference will be held at the University of Potsdam, Germany at the Institute for Arts and Media, European Media Studies. Campus Neues Palais from May 8th to 10th, 2008.

For further information please contact us.

If you are near by drop in and hear the CONVERSATION.

Conference Aims

The purpose of this conference is to initiate an investigation into how current research on computer games touches upon philosophical issues. In line with this purpose, the conference is interdisciplinary, drawing together researchers from diverse fields such as: philosophy, computer game-theory, semiotics, aesthetics, sociology, psychology, and anthropology.

The conference is a collaboration between the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Norway; the Philosophical Project Centre (FPS), Oslo, Norway; the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark; the Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Science at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy; and the Department of Arts and Media, European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

The 2008 conference is the third international instalment of “The Third Place”, an ongoing project on philosophical problems arising from the increasing cultural and societal significance of computer games.

The first instalment, the international conference “The Third Place: Computer Games and Our Conception of the Real”, was a shared initiative of FPS in Oslo and the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT-University of Copenhagen . It took place at the IT-University of Copenhagen from May 20-21, 2005.

The second instalment, the international conference “The Philosophy of Computer Games: An Interdisciplinary Conference”, took place in Italy at the Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantative Sciences of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, from January 25-27, 2007.
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Twinity interview – CMO Mirko Caspar speaks – itsReal

Twinity is one of the growing swathe of mirror worlds in development. We took the opportunity this week to fire some questions at Dr Mirko Caspar, who’s the CMO and co-founder of Metaversum, the company behind Twinity.

Lowell: Can you outline the history of how Twinity came about?

Mirko: Connecting the real with the virtual world will be one of the major Internet trends in the coming years. Such a virtual world will be both playful and useful, with positive benefits for the ‘real’ lives of those who explore and populate it. Twinity is designed to enrich people’s real lives. Most of the current virtual worlds focus on fantasy environments without reference to the real world. Twinity will blur those boundaries and create that missing link. With that vision in mind, Jochen Hummel (CEO), Dietrich Charisius (CTO) and myself (CMO) founded Metaversum in 2006. Metaversum has since developed Twinity, which is now in private beta.

Lowell: You’re competing in an increasingly crowded space – who do you see as your core market?

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News Release: Mirko Caspar CMO of Metaversum to Attend Virtual Worlds 2008 – itsReal

Mirko Caspar CMO of Metaversum to Attend Virtual Worlds 2008

Metaversum’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Mirko Caspar will be attending the convention, Virtual Worlds 2008, held at New York City (USA). Twinity, the next upcoming virtual world to look out for, is Merversum’s latest product. Mirko Caspar will be available for meetings and appointments at the conference for those who are interested.

Singapore Friday 28th April, 2008 – Virtual Worlds Management presents Virtual World 2008, which is going to be held from the 3rd of April 2008 to the 4th of April 2008 (2 day event) in New York City. Virtual Worlds 2008 is where leading media, consumer entertainment, youth brands and agencies come to understand how to monetize their intellectual property using virtual worlds. Entertainment brands and youth-oriented companies are increasingly integrating virtual worlds into their product mix. Forward thinking brand advertisers and agencies are aligning themselves with high-quality virtual worlds franchises in order to further engage consumers.

Virtual Worlds Management (VWM) is the leading virtual worlds media company. VWM services include the industry defining Virtual Worlds Conference (April 3-4, 2008 in New York), Virtual Worlds Expo (September 4-5, 2008 in Los Angeles), the Virtual Worlds Weekly email newsletter, VirtualWorldsNews.com, Virtual Worlds Connect, Virtual Worlds Passport and VirtualWorldsJobs.com. Virtual Worlds Management is a division of Show Initiative, LLC. More information about Virtual Worlds Management can be found at http://www.VirtualWorldsManagement.com.

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About MetaVersum
Metaversum develops and operates the 3D online world Twinity. This visionary endeavor mashes up the real with the virtual world. Twinity offers its members the ability to populate the digital world with their own avatars, design 3D homes, communicate with friends, engage in shared media experiences, work or simply have fun. Members of the Twinity community enrich and expand their lives by integrating real life into the virtual world and transcending the boundaries between physical and virtual space. Twinity is currently in its private beta phase. Founded in July 2006 and financed by leading venture capital firms, Metaversum has offices in Berlin and Kiev. For more information: www.metaversum.com and www.twinity.com.