Cool SL Apps in a Virtual Wimbledon
Ian Hughes at eightbar (a blog co-authored by four people “working in and around IBM’s Hursley Park Lab in the UK”) has a fascinating bunch of screenshots and explanations up detailing a proof-of-concept build for some really nice functionality he’s created in Second Life, based around the Wimbledon tennis tournament. The build includes an RSS weather feed globe, a very cool data-tracking tennis court that seemingly reproduces every shot of a match (pictured above), a neat concept for ambient visual representation of the match score (consisting of two spheres that change sizes depending on who’s winning), and a bunch of other stuff. I really want to check this out, but SL is down for an update at the moment, so I’ll have to bring you the direct report later.
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[…] I haven’t heard what the technology is behind the re-enactment, whether it’s something like the virtual Wimbledon created by some IBM researchers, or something completely different. The stadium the Sheep have built (pictured above), a re-creation of Pittsburgh’s PNC Park, where the Derby is being held, is certainly impressive. Presumably to combat lag caused by overcrowding of SL regions, a “limited number” of tickets to the event will be on sale via the Electric Sheep’s retail site, SLBoutique for a whopping L$1,000 — actually only about US$3. (Tickets go on sale at 7am SL time — 10am Eastern — tomorrow morning, July 6.) […]