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Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds This project is “Virtual MTV” which is based on the same technology as There.com but has spaces controlled by MTV. You can watch TV shows, but importantly, with your friends. Bringing social participation back to broadcast media? Extending your living room to a worldwide community of friends? 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds MTV is not alone in exploring how to use virtual worlds. Here are just some of the brands to find a way of promoting themselves in virtual worlds in the past few years. (Shows with the “big three” agencies who have helped them) 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds Aloft (part of the Starwood group of hotels) not only put their hotel in Second Life before it was built in the real world, they sought feedback. 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds http://www.millionsofus.com/projects_scion.php Scion enjoy a popular following with people who like customising their car. They’ve have created a presence in Second Life in which the cars you can pick up there are customisable. If you design a really excellent flared wheel arch, or custom spoiler, they’ll consider building it in the real world and making it an official after-market accessory. 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/07/11/live-at-mlb-second-life-game/ The first time I watched a game of baseball was in Second Life. I could watch the video, or watch the little computer controlled versions of the players acting out the game in near real time. The best bit wasn’t the baseball but the crowd. Somewhere between watching it at home (a single-user experience) and watching it live at the stadium. Perhaps the closest analogy is watching it on a TV at the local pub, with a crowd of cheering people around you. Not the same as being there, but a very social experience. 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds More music in Second Life... Suzanne Vega - live gig. (image: http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2007/07/suzanne-vega-re.html) Regina Spektor listening party and album preview Hedrons - live gig. (image: http://www.3pointd.com/20060928/scottish-girl-rockers-to-gig-in-second-life/) Ben Folds live album listening party 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds Please don’t think Second Life was empty before all the ‘real world’ brands and musicians entered though. It was (and still is) full of ‘native’ talent. Three examples: - Jeremy Works (AKA Frogg Marlowe in Second Life) and Jaycatt Nico - http://www.froggmarlowe.com/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathfinderlinden/221978873/) - Melanie Fudge (AKA Mel Cheeky in SL) - http://www1.melcheeky.com/ (photo credit: http://andypiper.wordpress.com/2006/10/20/interview-with-mel-cheeky/) - Keiko Takamura - http://www.keikotakamura.com/ (one night of gigs described at http://www.vtoreality.com/2007/review-keiko-takamura-frogg-marlowe-kim-seifert-bill-pam-havercamp-and-greg-colossus/352/) 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds I said I’d talk about play, work and learning in virtual worlds. 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds http://flickr.com/photos/toniblay/52445415/ So let’s being by looking at play. 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds Club Penguin Sold to Disney this year for $700M It’s a game, but the “point” is left pretty open. It’s a safe environment in which kids can keep pets, race down the ski runs, play ice hockey, or just hang around and chat. Very simple, quite fun (though I’m not really the target audience) and the ‘play’ is emergent, in that kids will find their own things to do and games to play. One of the screens has an iceberg, and there’s an urban legend that if all the players stand on the same end of the iceberg ir will tip over. 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds Sony PlayStation Home, currently in beta on the PlayStation 3. A virtual world in which to meet people with whom you’ll play games. From the little I’ve seen of it so far, it’s very impressive (graphically, at least). Also interesting to see virtual worlds escaping the domain of the PC and begin appearing on games consoles. 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds EVE Online is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. It’s set in space, and it’s really very beautiful. Usually, screenshots look better than the real thing, but with EVE the whole thing is very beautiful. 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds When you first start in EVE, you’re in a small, weak, fragile litle spaceship. To make you feel really bad about it, the default ship even has the word “rookie” as part of its name. In order to get a bigger ship, you will either need to save up and buy one, or you might try to beg, borrow or steal one. I’m not joking about the steal either, in some parts of space, piracy is rife. Assassinations and espionage are all fair game, and all part of the fun. 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds Eventually, though mining running courrier runs for other people, I saved up enough to buy a frigate, a battlecruiser, and eventually a battleship. Here’s with a firend working together to kill a (pleasntly weak) computer controlled hostile enemy. We could, if we were so inclined, get into player-killer, and gang up on an actual person. If there happened to be a bounty on their head, we’d even get a reward. We’re nice though (and frightened of the well armed police force which patrols the safer areas of the universe), so we didn’t get into crime or piracy. 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds Space is big. Each dot on this map is a solar system which might have a couple of dozen stations and asteroid belts. I mentioned safe areas.. The bright red dots are dangerous areas on which people have been recently killed 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds In such a big universe, trading gets quite interesting. Pick up this item while it’s cheap in one system, and either jump to another one where you’ll get a better price, or hire someone to do it for you. 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds http://www.flickr.com/photos/therift/130671212/ World of Warcraft is similar sort of game. A bit older, and even more popular. Millions of players around the world. This is a screenshot, though it rarely looks like this. 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds http://wow.uiscreens.com/details.php?ssid=329 It’s more often like this. You can see a couple of other players, some chatter happening between then, spells, a map… 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/86792894/ Joi Ito’s interface. Enormously complex. Interesting research implications for military commanders – how do you present large quantities of frequently changing info. Games seem to be on the cutting edge of complex dashboards, maybe there are things to learn from them. 3 years ago
Roo Reynolds commented on IET Mountbatten Lecture 2007 - Roo Reynolds http://ibm.com/gio An insight from IBM (from 2005) about the use of massively-multiplayer games in business. 3 years ago

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