We, as keen in Second life, made an attempt for fulfilling and increasing the participants through a virtual hot air balloon.

Do u want to participate in the event through Second life? Then please land at SL through http://slurl.com/secondlife/Aster%20Island/231/27/21

CokePool – Splash and Dash on fizz (a pool which offers the essence of Coca-Cola )

Concept

An interactive billboard that magically transforms itself into a water slide. The idea is to transform benign everyday object like a billboard into a vending machine that offers fun, refreshment and unity (serendipity).

Implementation

In the default state, the build will look like a billboard in the form of bottle cap. The billboard will have points of interaction reflecting the product offerings viz., CocaCola, Sprite, Cherry Coke, etc. When the billboard is activated, the bottle cap starts rotating first in the horizontal axis. Then it slowly starts rotating in the vertical axis. A giant bottle of the chosen product appears and starts filling up the cap to transform it into a water slide like pool.

The CokePool will contain animated scripted objects (Pose balls) which will enable different styles of swimming.

The CokePool will also contain water body related objects like dolls of duck and particle effect (fizz bubbles).

An important flotilla in the pool will be a teleport object. Upon selection of this object, the avatar will be given an option to be teleported to a ‘random’ location with a similar billboard/slide. [Maintaining the list of billboard locations, working out the randomness algorithm is the challenge left to the developer to figure out ]

The default and active state of the billboard/interactive slide is illustrated in the image below.

Relevance

This build is targeted as a giveaway for outdoor oriented builders. The builders will be interested in using the build as it can generate valuable traffic to their location. The users will be interested in the interaction, as it enables serendipity.

CokeMeGo – High on a Ride (a Merry-Go-Round)

Concept

The vending machine is in the form of a simple coke bottle. Upon interaction, the bottle shaped vending machine becomes a Merry-Go-Round. A variety of ride experience is possible based on avatar’s product selection choice.

Implementation

User camera manipulation using a Vehicle Script is the core component of the implementation. The path traced by the vehicle and speed of rotation offers the controlling parameters for generating different experiences. The outline of the build is illustrated by the image attached.

The image illustrates the default and active states of the coke bottle shaped vending machine. In the default state, the vending machine is simple coke bottle. When an avatar touches the bottle, an option tab appears listing the products viz., Coke, Sprite, etc. When the interaction is complete, the bottle spans out Merry-Go-Round arms (marked a, b, c in the image) that are vehicles that the avatar can ride. Product choice by the avatar will determine the theme of the ride.

The particle effect (marked d in image) will set the tone of the theme ( bubbles: Coke, Hearts: Sprite, Bats: Cherry Coke)

Relevance

This vending machine will be useful for land owners that have a large stretch of land. An avatar can quickly browse the landscape without much flying effort.

For more interesting information, visit www.virtualthirst.com

Being a buffs to environmental concern, made us to do this modest video. To show off, wasting paper towels is equivalent to destructing trees and some quick facts of TCFT labels……

To become a part of it, we featured about our presence in SecondLife. Since, it is also a wiki, as it contains user generated content where micro payment of Linden Dollars are possible and it was good…

I was happy to share with you, there is going to be a day of Wikis .Wikis, as of SecondLife, is one of well known Web 2.0. As a great part of it, there is going to be an upcoming event under the banner WikiCamp.in. Wikicamp is going to be happen by participants, which comes under unconference concept and is all about harnessing and understanding the power of Wikis…….

Let us see the WikiCamp.in event at Tidel Park, Chennai on 25^th February 2007.
A video demo about WikiCamp.in, is showcased below….

This video is created using SecondLife by UPSL@SecondLife Team.

The whole auditorium was very live by the discussions between SL avatars (nearly 20 avatars) relating advertising.

As a renowned profession in advertising, Maurice’s main focus is the advantages of carbon neutral medium and he putforth his ideas and eagerness to make carbon neutral medium of advertising by 2010…

The whole show was nicely featured by Reuters.

I was also involved in valid talks with couple of SL inmates ( Avretica Edelman and Jillian Barth) and i was happy with that…

The attendance was very impresive( some 30 avatars in interesting shapes and sizes participated). From UPSL, we( Me- Maha, Balaji, Vasu) huddled in front of the monitor as upsl Pink . We attended an interview by Peter Gabriel, – renowned musician, activist and a internet technology early adapter. He put forth some of his intense thought about human rights violations. And how a simple camera can make a huge difference to the plight. ‘Just make the camera available, make it easy/seamless to upload/share’. He shared his encounter with an African women and her strong faith on how a camera could make a world of difference.

The discussion mentioned the one hundred dollar laptop and Peter rightly pointed to the trend that mobile phone is doing what it does more or less.

Actually, it was very stunning to get such a positive opinion about Camera Mobile phones! Amazing to note that the simple camera phone could turn the ‘Big Brother Watching’ upside down to ‘Small Brother Watching( Empowered!)’.

Bonus Link:

MooMoney was one of the active participant in the event with an impressive avatar!

WEF coverage at SL just validates our bet on SL as a conference medium.

Good show Reuters!

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