IBM’s Virtual Australian Open In Second Life
Posted Friday, January 12th, 2007, at 10:01 am Eastern by Mark Wallace
Stephen Hutcheon of the Syndney Morning Herald has a nice piece about a new build by some of the IBMers in the virtual world of Second Life, which does for the Australian Open tennis tournament what IBM did for Wimbledon on a smaller scale last summer. The virtual stadium re-creates the tournament in real time, shot-for-shot, based on real-time tracking data fed into the world. The Herald also mentions that spectators can choose to watch the matches “from a player’s perspective,” though I’m not entirely sure how that works. To see more, watch the YouTube video. (more…)
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