Baseball and Wimbledon in SecondLife
Over at Electric sheep they are announcing major league baseball as an event This of particular interest given my current Wimbledon tennis proof of concept that we have been demoing the past two weeks here at Wimbledon along side the official championships site
This has been getting some very good reactions from my collegues and my customers, and it feels like we are riding the start of a very large wave.
July 8th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
There is a good article on this over at 3dpoint.com
a bit more inside information.
July 10th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
[...] Hank Hoodoo from the electric sheep company sent me an IM that I got this morning in Second Life, saying the baseball stadium for tonights MLB.com HomeRun Derby 2006 was open for a look around. I had wrriten about this before but at the time I could only look it it from afar. So I popped along and took a tour. All this is linked to the work on Wimbledon Tennis this year that I have been demonstrating to customers and fellow IBMers, on the potential of Second Life and general metaverse technology in several areas. One key are is the ability to represent a brand and an experience in a much more immersive and sociable way. Event are attended by othre people, interested people. The more events I attend the more I learn how they can be run and the benefits and risks that they bring. This is aside from the other trends around avatar based marketing, social computing and education. The baseball stadium has been built by people who specialize in this sort of building. Deisgners and programmers working together. Some people focus on structure others on textures, others on code. On approach this is very impressive. It has a very authentic feel as a ‘real’ place [...]
April 24th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
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