3pointD on March 2nd, 2007

Posted Friday, March 2nd, 2007, at 8:22 pm Eastern by Mark Wallace
Posted Friday, March 2nd, 2007, at 9:02 am Eastern by Mark Wallace

The Electric Sheep Company's Sibley Verbeck on the Today Show
Sibley on the right

Electric Sheep Company CEO Sibley Verbeck was finally on NBC’s Today Show today this morning, after being delayed twice already. The appearance was quite brief, and preceded by an edited sequence that made it clear that NBC doesn’t think there are many SL users in its Today Show audience (which I’m sure is true), but I get excited about virtual worlds appearing on national television, I always think that’s huge. And pretty interesting, to think that millions of people are peering into their TV screen and then peering through that into a computer screen at a virtual world. Does the remove of two screens make it feel safer to an audience like Today’s than if they were simply shown it on a laptop? In any case, I don’t think SL has been featured before in a venue with broader reach than Today. That’s good for adoption, which in turn is good for the metaverse. Good.


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