The Otherland Group - Blog

Why 'Otherland'?

A few people, who already have heard about "Markus' New Company" have asked me "how on earth did you come up with THAT name?" Which is an obvious question, of course. Why not call it Metaverse this or Second that? And, like always, there is a story behind the name; a rather long story actually. But don't be afraid. I won't tell this story here. It has already been told by someone who is a much better author than me ...

The namesake for our company is a series of novels by Tad Williams: The Otherland Tetralogy, consisting of four volumes telling a many-facetted story set in a near future society. Most of the story takes place inside a number of virtual worlds, The Otherland Network. See? The connection is becoming apparent! ;) Two groups of protagonists are traveling through this network of worlds in their fight against a malevolent and very powerful organization, controlled by one ruthless guy - who has do die in the end. (Yes, I love happy ends.)

Technorati Tags: 3d web, second life, virtual worlds, web 3.d

Our first (temporary) office

At the moment we are at a point, where we definitely need a office in RL to work together. Berlin is a big city and has of course a lot of office spaces. So we can't complain having not enough choices ;) But our search for a new home is still ongoing and therefore we decided to rent two desks in a coworking space in berlin. (see picture above)

And I have to say: very good decision so far ;)

Goldie from "Anshe Chung Studios" has visited me yesterday to chat a little bit about whats happening in SL and he, who is setting up the german ACS office in Berlin, has been taken with it from the first moment aswell and is now considering if he will work from here for the first weeks aswell.

So - if anybody is in town: come on over ... we have pretty good coffee here.