Startup Vollee brings Second Life to mobile phones
With more high-end PC titles to follow
In a live demonstration to Newsweek's video game blogger extraordinaire N'Gai Croal, startup company Vollee has shown Second Life running on a 3G mobile phone. According to the company's website, the popular virtual world will be coming to mobile via Vollee's innovative streaming technology, with optimised controls and a tab-based interface. Beta trials are available here.
While Second Life is the company's flagship title, it seems that Vollee's proprietary technology – which is purportedly capable of streaming 'high-end' PC titles to mobile (probably not Crysis, though) – may eventually bring a whole range of games to your handset.
As well as Second Life, for instance, N'Gai Croal alludes in his coverage to a "PS2 board sports game running reasonably well."
According to American blog site 1UP, Activision has also announced a relationship with Vollee. Rumours of a mobile World of Warcraft have long been rife, but with the game's publisher involved it looks like the rumours may not be utter piffle after all.
Of Second Life, meanwhile, 1UP had this to say: "The results are stunning. A PC-perfect version of Second Life runs on a phone that could barely handle some of the most elemental mobile games." Crikey.
Vollee first blipped onto Pocket Gamer's radar last July, with our own Stuart Dredge calling it a "company to watch." That man is never wrong. Click 'Track It!' to keep watching.
