A NEW metaverse app lets you live and hang out in entirely virtual bedrooms.
Called Bondee, the viral app has been downloaded millions of times – despite being just a few weeks old.
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Users create their own “space” – a virtual room – that they can customize just like the smash-hit video game The Sims.
The app lets you decorate the space with furniture, art, and homeware.
And then you explore it using a virtual avatar that you’ve set up to look like you – or someone else entirely.
“Bondee is a virtual plaza for you and your closest friends to hang out authentically,” developer Metadream Tech explains.
You can link up with up to 50 friends in virtual “plazas.”
The app lets you interact with friends, as well as chat and post statuses.
You can even visit a virtual sea, if you like.
Avatars are highly customizable, so you can make your metaverse figure look exactly how you want.
“Pick from a huge variety of trendy original outfits created by designers in the fashion community,” Bondee explained.
The app has already proved wildly popular.
Google’s Play Store lists it as having been downloaded on Android more than 5million times.
And it’s got over 2,000 review ratings on the Apple App Store for iPhone.
It’s also totally free to download and has mostly positive reviews.
One iPhone App Store reviewer wrote: “This app is so addicting especially if you have lots of friends. The graphics are amazing!”
Another wrote: “I’ve really been enjoying Bondee.
“It definitely has a lot of potential to fill a gap that social media needs.
“I get nostalgic feelings playing this game. It actually reminds me of Habbo Hotel, but with the Animal Crossing kind of look to it.”
The bad news is that Bondee isn’t available in the UK or US yet.
But it would be surprising if the company didn’t roll the app out more widely in the future, given its popularity.