What you need to know about Bondee, a new metaverse app gaining ground in the Philippines

Have you seen your friends posting an image of an animated room?

It's the latest trend in town—the app Bondee, a metaverse that simulates living with friends and features 3D animated avatars that users can customize.

The avatars can do a wide array of things from sitting on the sofa to clubbing or dancing. Users can also choose the clothes of their avatars and design their rooms with furniture.

Users can add up to 50 friends in the metaverse setting. The app also involves NFT elements.

Bondee was developed by the tech start-up firm Metadream in Singapore. The company has teams based in Japan and South Korea, as well as data centers in Singapore, the USA, and South Korea.

It alsos plan to have regional operations centers in the Philippines and Thailand "to better serve local users."

According to a report on Channel News Asia, Bondee recently addressed rumors alleging that users' credit card information has been leaked through the platform. Bondee denied the rumors and maintained that their users' data is secure.

The Bondee app can be downloaded for free on the Google Play and App Store.

—MGP, GMA Integrated News