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Major League Baseball In Second Life

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-your-digital-pop-cooooooooooooorn dept.

Jerry23 writes "There's apparently an upcoming Home Run Derby in the world of Second Life, sponsored by Major League Baseball and created by The Electric Sheep Company. In proto-interactive TV style, fans can tune their laptops to the multi-player recreation and chat with other Second Lifers while they watch the real deal on the tube. And of course they can also pop over to the virtual souvenir shop and drop some hard-earned loot on a pixelated jersey." From the article: "[T]he virtual derby will not be a separate contest, but will be 'a real-time Second Life re-enactment' of the real thing, featuring avatars for each of the eight Derby players -- Major Leaguers competing to see who can hit the most home runs over the course of two rounds."

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  1. Slashvertisement by mrxak · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In other news, Electric Sheep Company writes in to slashdot to tell everyone about themselves.

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  2. Re:Wow-Crummy Burger. by (A)*(B)!0_- · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "Envy? No, I'm glad I'm not a stupid (what's the average SAT/ACT score of the average baseball/basketball player?), drug-enhanced, overpaid dolt. Bitterness? Yes, because I think it's stupid that entire populations (not just America, the whole world [think of all the crazy World Cup stories, locking spouses in closet so you can watch a game or running into a burning house so you can grab your t.v. to finish watching the rest of a match is STUPID]) are so amazed by sports that they don't see a problem in paying millions to people who contribute nothing to the world (they play a fucking GAME -- kids play games for FUN!) while people that are intelligent and pour their lives into their profession (teachers, social workers, doctors, etc) are paid poorly (well, maybe not doctors)."
    Teachers? I've seen plenty that are just there to get their paycheck and let their union protect them from being fired. But we'll leave that aside. Why do you care what people enjoy for entertainment purposes? And, since you care so much, what's entertaining you that is so much better and delivers so much more benefit to the world?