Comments on: More tennis in Second Life - Australian Open

By: Andy Piper

Andy Piper — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:55:57 +0000

David - we actually picked up on your comment on episode 83 of Dogear Nation (http://dogearnation.com). It’s hard for me to see how pushing the boundaries and innovating is wasteful… we’re learning how to engage in these new spaces. Bear in mind that this isn’t all about Second Life, it is about the 3D Internet and virtual worlds in general. As for a so-called “Third Life” concept - what would you suggest? and why go further immediately when there’s more to do in this existing space?

By: TennisPlaza

TennisPlaza — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:42:58 +0000

I honestly hope IBM doesn’t continue to blow their customers money on this. They should focus their energy on the next concept that is better than Second Life. Is their any Third Life concepts out there yet?

David
TennisPlaza

By: paul ruice

paul ruice — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:02:16 +0000

Great Read well written
http://www.mytennissecrets.com

By: gunay guz

gunay guz — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:48:03 +0000

Anyway we welcome your comments on it, as we try and bring the experience of the tennis event to the metaverse. The main website extends the experience with news and photos aswell as scores. In Second Life we can obvioulsy extend that experience to one that can be shared.

By: Rob the tennis fanatic

Rob the tennis fanatic — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:52:58 +0000

It will be interesting to see what is in store at the 2008 Australian Open. One year is a long time in terms of technology improvements. I enjoyed the 2007 version with the added dimension of the hawkeye system.

I wonder if players will better manage the challenge system. Some players seemed to have a knack of knowing when to challenge while others seemed to not have a clue.

By: eightbar » Blog Archive » More Tennis in Second Life - Roland Garros

eightbar » Blog Archive » More Tennis in Second Life - Roland Garros — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:05:19 +0000

[...] We have gone live with our mini build of for the French Open tennis on the “IBM 7″ sim. We have previously had the builds for last years Wimbledon (video here) , and the previous Australian Open, but they were all private. This is out in the the public areas. The team, Laronzo Fitzgerald, Andy Remblai and I have taken Pipe Hesse and Gizzy ElectricTeeth’s australian open and adjusted it for the Roland Garros event. We have all discovered on the way lots of interesting gotchas on collaborative building, with sharing of permissions and how to make things portable. The area itself is branded and in the style of the actual event with a central clay court. We get data from the same feeds as we use for the website with current matches and complete matches represented on a main board. The court itself is central, it houses the match replay gadget. The replay shows the play of the ball from a rally and updates the main scoreboard. People can pose at each end of the court for a players view. We are going to keep adjusting the experience as we have realized a few usability quirks that may not be obvious to people. 1. The rally is played after the real rally has finished, that is when the data is sent in Real/Web life. So the main scoreboard and court will always be behind the live one (at the moment) 2. When players change ends, or there is a break in play it looks like the court is not doing anything, so that may be confusing as a spectator 3. Rain delays, its started with one yesterday and we have not represented one as the Autralian Open has a roof. Anyway we welcome your comments on it, as we try and bring the experience of the tennis event to the metaverse. The main website extends the experience with news and photos aswell as scores. In Second Life we can obvioulsy extend that experience to one that can be shared. Here is a mini youtube with a famous metaverse personality playing tennis at the end with a golf club [...]

By: UgoTrade » Blog Archive » The Level Playing Field: From Web 2.0 to World 2.0 and Virtual Life

Tue, 29 May 2007 14:41:26 +0000

[...] Ian Hughes who has pioneered this tennis project with others at IBM sent me a message from Second Life earlier, in response to my questions about when tennis on Second Life would open to the public: The tri board has schedule, completed matches and matches in progress, the main court will be showing live current match (all being well) or a replay of a match some videos and other things around. We are doing this quite gently as its the first tennis one we have gone public with. [...]

By: aroko

aroko — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:18:02 +0000

This is a good article…..But I think joining the secondlife is more interesting and Learn how to easily find, court and finally marry a beautiful Girl in Secondlife…

http://www.secondlifepartners.com

By: epredator

epredator — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:22:13 +0000

The aus open tennis sim is called Slam1 on the main map.
The team are using it currently as an invitation event, much like the real thing and as a deeper proof of concept than the original Wimbledon build.
We wanted to show people the pictures and the work but given the limit on the number of AV’s on a sim we did not want cause people problems by not being able to TP in and see it because it is full.
IBM sponsored tennis events, the grand slams are some of the most heavily used sites as I know from my years of Wimbleodn experience.
As this is stage 2 of a much bigger experiment the team are looking at ways to scale it, the best way to run an event such as this and just how big it may have to be.

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:12:55 +0000

gr8 blog this