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Virtual strawberries anyone?

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For anyone not particularly into music festivals and so not rushing-off to the Secondfest virtual festival in Second Life next weekend (read post here), how about relaxing with some tennis at IBM’s Second Life virtual Wimbledon?

Following testing on a private Second Life island in 2006, this year any interested spectators in Second Life will be able to see matches being played by avatars using real Hawkeye ball position data from Centre Court. They even have virtual rain and virtual covers to protect the virtual courts. If you’ve got a Second Life account then you can take a visit.

Alternately, if tennis is your thing but Second Life isn’t, then you can see video from Centre Court and No. 1 Court, as well as highlights, interviews, and archive footage at Wimbledon.org.

June 24, 2007 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Secondfest – wellies not required

Those who braved the rain and mud at Glastonbury this weekend should just about have dried-out in time for Secondfest, a three-day virtual music festival in Second Life – running from 6pm GMT (10am SLT) on Friday June 29th to midnight GMT on Sunday July 1st.

Organised by The Guardian and Intel, the festival will feature live music from both offline and online performers, plus theatre, ballet and cinema. The ‘offline’ headliners are Groove Armada and the Pet Shop Boys, while the line-up of SL performers includes Doubledown Tandino and Slim Warrior.

For more information, you can take a look at the festival website – complete with the usual blogs, downloadable festival map, and ‘survival guide’, plus some tragically unsubtle promotion of the latest Intel processor. You can also find a Secondfest page on MySpace and sign-up for live festival tweets from the Secondfest twitter feed.

June 24, 2007 Posted by | Uncategorized | 4 Comments

   

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