Just logged into Entropia portal to discover that new planet… SEE Virtual Worlds is now listed as coming soon…Our universe is growing and this promises to be an interesting new place to be…
what I found most interesting is the visionary aspects expressed on the last highlighted paragraph of this story…
SEE Virtual Worlds, Entropia Universe Join Forces to Bring Blockbuster Movie Properties
LOS ANGELES--(Business Wire)--
SEE Virtual Worlds, LLC, a new division of SEE Touring Attractions
Inc. - the award-winning company behind many successful and innovative
themed touring exhibitions, including Star Trek The Tour and Titanic
Official Movie Tour - today announced a partnership with Mindark PE
AB, the Swedish developer and creator of the Entropia Universe, to
expand popular Hollywood properties into full, stand-alone virtual
planets utilizing the Entropia Universe Virtual World Platform.
"I believe that this is the first, fully realistic business
capitalization of what has been up to now a fledgling but exciting new
entertainment platform," said Martin Biallas, CEO, SEE Virtual Worlds,
LLC. "Special Entertainment Events has been creating and presenting
Hollywood's best themed entertainment projects for the last decade.
Our unique relationship with the entertainment industry has provided
us rare access and insight into what's required to bring high profile
properties to the public. And, we know how to present those titles to
their best advantage and protect them which is of great concern to our
studio partners. There is no question as to the clear synergy that
this venture embodies."
In the first merger of its kind, Mindark will provide SEE Virtual
Worlds the Entropia Universe Virtual World Platform. SEE Virtual
Worlds will launch Hollywood-inspired virtual worlds to coincide with
Entropia's debut of the state-of-the-art and award-winning Cryengine2
upgrade in early 2009. SEE Virtual Worlds will handle studio licensing
of major Hollywood film and television properties and marketing for
the themed worlds. NEVERDIE Studios, led by virtual world icon Jon
"NEVERDIE" Jacobs, will design and develop the individual planets
which will include input from the creative teams behind the original
film or television property. Mindark will integrate the newly designed
planets into the Entropia Universe.
"Mindark has enjoyed great success in the emerging fields of
virtual worlds," said David Simmonds, business development director,
Mindark. "We believe that this long-awaited enhancement to the
industry will bring interactive entertainment to a new level. As a
company, we've been careful to only make such a move when the right
combination of proven partners were realized and it's clear that
there's no better triumvirate then this. Together, Mindark, SEE
Virtual Worlds and NeverDie Studios represent all of the elements
needed to expand this marketplace."
"Movies give us the ability to watch our favorite stories, video
games enable us to interact with our favorite stories and virtual
worlds will enable us to play, work and grow inside our favorite
stories," said Jon "NeverDie" Jacobs, president, NeverDie Studios.
"Entropia Universe is the viable economic platform for this
partnership given that virtual reality is a medium that has come of
age."
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS207340+06-Oct-2008+BW20081006
http://www.seevirtualworlds.com/
http://www.seevirtualworlds.com/VirtualWorld_StudioAgreementRelease.pdf