This weekend BBC Radio 1 held The Big Weekend, a two-day free concert in Dundee, Scotland. The event was also streamed into Second Life and shown on a set of custom BBC islands. I think this counts as another first for both the Beeb and SL as I’m not aware of another major broadcaster officially streaming a live event into a virtual space. Initial figures from creators of the event in SL suggest that up to 6,000 avatars will have been at the show over the weekend.
No beardy musings - just noting another cross-media data-point and the trend from Gorillaz doing Habbo in August last year, through to the Beeb broadcasting from inside Second Life in January this year and now this. Where TV audiences go – broadcasters and (in most cases other than the BBC) advertisers will follow.
Alice has been providing some coverage of the event, but (just in case you missed it) for deeper thoughts check out her entry on public service gaming and Raph’s further thoughts on the subject.
What great professional content for the metaverse!
NPR's Radio Open Source with Christopher Lyden, broadcast live into Second Life in March. It was an interesting event with the host taking questions from the live Second Life audience. The podcast is available for download and it is fantastic.
Posted by: Satchmo Prototype | May 14, 2006 at 20:32
There's some pictures from in-world in flickr and Snapzilla. (For the prior, search tags for Second Life. For the latter, check out Snapzilla (www.slpics.com) on the date of the event.
Posted by: HiroPendragon | May 16, 2006 at 00:43