Really

On April 17th, we had a big product launch event at Fenway park in Boston, in conjunction with AIIM/OnDemand. There was a large Second Life component to the event, with the Boston audience being shown a virtual product showroom on Xerox Innovation Island. Sophie Vandebroek posted a short summary (including a transcript (warning - MS Word document!) of the in-world panel discussion), and there was some news coverage and blog entries here and there. We had also planned to stream video from Fenway Park into Second Life, so that the SL audience could see and here what was going on. Unfortunately, as we all know, Real Life is not entirely stable and we always take a risk when we try to stage events in the physical world, so the video link never materialized.

However, there are now some videos of the event available, so everyone can see what they missed! The first video shows what was going on in both worlds, and gives you a bit of peak of the pavilion at Xerox Innovation Island:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dgooEhCMzY[/youtube]

The second video is an edited version of a machinima shown at the event, used to introduce the audience to Second Life. Follow along as a journalist meets an avatar named “Sophie”, and learns how businesses are mixing digital and real worlds:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFtAJPpRR9k[/youtube]

Unfortunately, this edit omits my favorite line in the film. As Sophie and the journalist sit down to chat, Sophie, of course, chooses “Belgian hot chocolate” to drink, but the narrator declines, stating “I had my big eye on a little tea”! Get it? Well, I liked it.

As you may have noticed, both videos include parts from the machinima we did in January - Reuse and recycle is what we do!