The annual installation and lighting of the huge Christmas tree that adorns Rockefeller Center each holiday season is one of the small, cool things about living in New York. This year’s tree, which went up on November 10, is 88 feet tall and weighs nine tons! It gets lit — after being strung with over five miles of lights — tomorrow, November 29, at 9pm 8:55pm Eastern time. This year, for the first time, you’ll be able participate in a virtual tree lighting in Second Life, as well, courtesy of NBC Universal and the Electric Sheep Company (sponsors of this blog). The NBC Universal headquarters in Second Life (I’m not sure exactly where this is) will host “A Very Virtual Christmas,” in a distributed event that will take place across 16 19 SL regions. According to a press release from the Sheep, “A total of sixteen regions will contain identical replicas of the NBC Universal headquarters complete with holiday decor, ice skating, live music, and a coffee shop. Elements of the Second Life event will be live in every sim while others will be streamed from a live audio/video feed coming from one of the sims.” SL musicians Jaycatt Nico and Frogg Marlowe will perform. [UPDATE: NBC now says there will be more like 19 sims, named NBC1, NBC2, etc.] (more…)
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