Powerliner: power user of online services
Last week I asked, “What we can do with the internet + virtual environments?” I didn’t finish the answer. Here are a few items,mostly derived from the music business in Second Life. And mostly involving three key concepts:
Outworlding. Exporting Second Life products to the outworld. Products, in this case are entertainment.
Blended reality. Mixing Second Life events with outworld events. That is currently one of the growth industries in Second Life.
Live Streaming. You go outworld with entertainment via live streaming over the web, followed by archiving. You look for ad revenue
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The Redmond Digital Arts Festival
Mixed Reality Musical Jam
Sunday, January 10 2010. Sponsored by: Microsoft, City of Redmond, Gas Powered Games, Marriot, DigiPen, & Redmond City Center. The second Digital Arts Festival, the artists and businesses that work in Redmond and the areas nearby.
Outworld event at Soulfood Books: “ Soul Food Books on 15748 Redmond Way (next to Ben Franklin) “
The artists performed at Soulfood Books and performed (as avatars) in Second Life. The live performance was streamed into Second Life and the Second Life scene was projected on a big screen in Soulfood Books.
Seattle-based SL musicians performing at RL Festival:
Chaos Noyes, Dakota Pluto, Dale Aries, Edward Kyomoon, Eva Moon Ember, Lyndon Heart, Tukso Okey.
So why am I telling you about this show? It’s over. You missed it.
Oh, no you didn’t. They made videos of the entire performance. The original videos are posted in four parts, so I made a page on my website to present all four together for easier access.
Embedded as one page on my website
The Redmond Digital Arts Festival Mixed Reality Musical Jam
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The business of live streaming
You know something has arrived in Second Life when somebody is offering it as a service for pay. Global Real Time Productions now offers “to broadcast your event live on websites and in 3-D virtual worlds. Audio, visual, or both.” “GRT provides onsite staff to broadcast your event, and connects you directly via chat rooms with customers during the event.”
For more information on Global Real Time Productions, contact Thundergas Menges or JadaBright Pond in SL
The most recent presentation by GRT is Dave Specter ! Live ! Presented on Wednesday January 13 Live from his club SPACE in Evanston, IL. The show was streamed into a number of locations in SL.
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Vizworld looks at Video and Machinima in Second Life
Randall Hand, author of Vizworld, is doing a series on Second Life. In preparation for the recent article on video and machinima, he spent about 24 hours exploring and finding out about what happens in productions of this kind. (That’s journalism the old-fashioned way. Some of us still remember.)
He talked with Pooky Amsterdam, participated in one of her shows, and described three of her projects
- The 1st Question (weekly, live, streamed)
- The Dating Casino (weekly, live, streamed)
- PookyMedia Films
The article points out some of the advantages and disadvantages of making video in Second Life.
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Virtual Rail Consortium – update
I previously posted about the Railway Community Partnership.
Here is a website to help people follow developments in virtual railroading in SL
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Tamra Hayden's outworlding web site.
Tamra Hayden (Tamra Sands in Second Life) has an outworlding web page. She streams her Second Life performances to the web via her webpage. She has recently added a chat bridge that carries the local chat from Second Life to the web users and back. Another step in outworlding.
