Twitter in 3D

“Swiss start-up Minsh consists of an underwater 3D navigable world where each fish represents a Twitter user. The concept behind the virtual world is that the social behaviour of fish will represent what people are talking about online. In the world of Minsh, people writing about a given subject find themselves swimming in the same school. When a person updates his or her Twitter status, the fish swims away to join people with similar thoughts on their minds.”

(Richard Banks via infosthetics)

Next release is July 13, but here’s some info from their blog if you’re interested, and some screens of how it works.

While the biz model seems unclear, I can definately see brands using twitter + 3D + DV to create their own ‘minsh’.

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