http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/07/08/baseball-and-wimbledon-in-secondlife/ Raising The Eight Bar Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:02:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/07/08/baseball-and-wimbledon-in-secondlife/#comment-87410 gosecondlife » eightbar ” Blog Archive ” Baseball and Wimbledon in SecondLife Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:49:48 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/07/08/baseball-and-wimbledon-in-secondlife/#comment-87410 [...] Original post by secondlife and syndication software [...] [...] Original post by secondlife and syndication software [...]

]]> http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/07/08/baseball-and-wimbledon-in-secondlife/#comment-4300 eightbar » Blog Archive » Baseball Sneek peek Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:16:36 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/07/08/baseball-and-wimbledon-in-secondlife/#comment-4300 [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 [...]

]]> http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/07/08/baseball-and-wimbledon-in-secondlife/#comment-4191 epredator Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:32:03 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/07/08/baseball-and-wimbledon-in-secondlife/#comment-4191 There is a good article on this over at <a href="http://www.3pointd.com/20060707/a-day-at-the-virtual-ballpark-with-mlbcom/" rel="nofollow">3dpoint.com</a> a bit more inside information. There is a good article on this over at 3dpoint.com
a bit more inside information.

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