More real world virtual world and back again at Wimbledon
Today Wimbledon and our customers visiting us in Second Life and Real Life had the benefit of both of eightbar/IBM’s metaverse evangelists onsite. Today we continued work along with the other guys on creating the extra behind the scenes experience now we have the event up and running.
After the mixed mode press conference it was a natural thing to try and bring things into SL and out again using some extra pieces of ambient instrumentation.
So using veodia and a webcam to pipe back into Second Life our real life presence.
Whilst giving a customer tour Adam Reuters popped by. So he got to see the people on the tech tour, and also became part of the tour himself as he was on my big screen. The impact of an avatar waving due to the mixed mode of video ambient presence and a two way interaction across the worlds had a massive wow factor.
June 28th, 2007 at 21:17
This is awesome!!
June 29th, 2007 at 20:44
[...] That said – I have been exploding Second Life for a couple of days (my new MacBook runs the software so much better than my old Vaio) – and among some other interesting things I read about this: Second life at wimbledon on a blog kept by one of the IBM staffers. [...]
July 4th, 2007 at 20:00
[...] It was an excellent experience – really good fun to talk to these guys – just chatting about up-to-the minute links, hacks and mashups. The initial reason that I got involved was to talk about Slorpedo! from HackDay, but we managed to cover a whole range of subjects including the new Google Maps features[1], Second Life in Real Life, Internet time, Wimbledon and Veodia, and all kinds of other stuff. [...]
September 11th, 2007 at 00:34
[...] eightbar » Blog Archive » More real world virtual world and back again at Wimbledon Link from ccmehil about streaming live video or a webcam in SL. (tags: tv sl video streaming) [...]