HiPiHi reopens beta
by Tateru Nino 
Apr 19th 2008 at 4:00PM
Filed under: Betas, News items, Virtual worlds, HiPiHi
Chinese virtual world HiPiHi has reopened registration for beta accounts. If you want to give this a spin, you will be pleased to know that you can now perform account registration in English. Unfortunately, it seems that you'll still need to either read a few words of Chinese or have a fine-mastery of educated guesswork to handle the user-interface.
We spent a few minutes in HiPiHi today. Within our first couple of minutes, we got our leg humped by some kind of transforming robot, and then someone tried to push us into the sea. Technology is awesome.
If you're feeling brave and would like to have a look at this virtual world in beta, give the signup a whirl. Be warned - the viewer download is at least 20 times longer than the download for Second Life, so find something else to do while that is happening.
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SuezanneC Baskerville said on 8:19PM 4-19-2008
There's been an English registration page for a good while, since at least October of 2007. I wrote about it back then.
Good to see you tried Hipihi.
There are instructions at my blog's Hipihi page that might help setting up the language requirements for some, at http://suezannecbaskerville.wordpress.com/hipihi/.
It is possible to get the interface to be partially translated into Chinese.
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