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Are real life replicas of ourselves and our cities a better idea than a make-believe world in virtual world design? Twinity – and their venture capitalists – believe that it has a better chance of succeeding when things around us in our virtual world are more familiar to us – with photo-realistic avatars and real life city replicas only as opposed to the make-believe world of Second Life.\u00a0 Currently Twinity is in beta. I have not tried it yet but I am unsure of the concept itself. We’ll see.<\/p>\n

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