The world of Second Life soon will be available on 3G handsets via Vollee’s streaming mobile games service.

No matter how good mobile handsets are becoming, they’re still very under-powered compared with PCs, notes Julian Corbett, head of business development for Vollee. But with technology like Vollee’s, consumers can play games that are full 3D, with complex physics. Vollee renders everything on its servers, so the handset doesn’t need to be a super computer.

Vollee doesn’t just bring Web content over to the mobile space; it adapts content to make it work better for the mobile medium. “The biggest reward for us is when we have people who love properties such as Second Life and they just get lost within our version of Second Life … without thinking about how this got there,” Corbett says.

Beta trials for the mobile offering of the Second Life Grid platform will be open to those who pre-register at www.vollee.com/secondlife.