Increasingly event organisers are seeing the benefit of hosting events either purely within a virtual world such as Second Life, or as so-called "mixed-reality" events, holding a main event in the real-world, but relaying the event into a virtual world.
The advantage of such an approach over the more conventional streaming of content onto a web site is that the people attending the virtual event can talk and network with each other in almost the same way as they would in real-life.
Remote attendees will get a far greater sense of being at the event than they would just watching video on a web site.
Core Offering
The core offering provides a generic auditorium or seminar room for up to 40 avatars, provision of "SL Joining Instructions and User Guides", setting up of an event group, briefing for event organisers, speaker liaison, at-SL support from H-1h to H+30m, on-call support during the event and end-of-event clear up. Audio feed set to any given URL (i.e. your event audio stream) and tested. Slide shower set to the JPG slides URL, and loaded with root URL for each set. Price: £800 for up to 3 hour event, £1500 for 1d event, £2000 for 2d event. Add 50% for 40 - 60 avatars. Contact us for > 60 avatars.Add £50 an hour for at-SL location support throughout event.
Audio
You have 3 options for providing audio streaming for the event. Costs above assume you bear all these costs. If you want us to provide some elements then see details below.
Option 1: SLVoice: Feed the speakers audio into the mic-input of a running the SL client, so that the PC's avatar "speaks" the audio. Can have quality and in-world location issues, but avoids streaming costs.
Option 2: Audio Stream: Either use the PC mic or a feed from mixing desk and relay the audio through suitable software to an audio streaming service (eg..) We can source this from third-parties such as? Typical price is ....
Option 3: External: Maintain a separate audio feed (e.g. Skype Group call). Also useful as a backup-up!
Video
You have 2 options for video streaming for the event. Costs above assume you bear all these costs. If you want us to provide some elements then see details below. Note if you video stream you can't also stream the slides but must upload them - see details below.
Option 1: Web-cam: The cheap-and-cheerful option. Use a PC with web-cam or video camera and run suitable software to send to the streaming service. We can source this from third-parties if required.
Option 2: Pro-video: We assume that you will source your own video crew (or we can recommend). You will need sufficient location bandwidth to get the real-time video out to a video streaming service. Video streaming service costs and conversion costs on request. If you need us to quote for on-site video capture as well we can.
Slides
If you are not using video slides can be brought in on the SL media channel. Otherwise slides must be converted to JPG and imported individually and then loaded into a slide player. A member of the event staff should then control the slide player in SL from the RL event so as to keep the slides in-sync. That same staff member can also act as a relay for questions from SL attendees.
A PC at the event running SL can be used to provide a local large-screen projection of the SL side of the event. Can combine with the slide PC above.
Other Services
In addition to these core services we can also provide:
- Dedicated SL Registration and Orientation
- Attendee Support
- Local and in-world Event support
- Event video
Please also ask about how we can help with event marketing if required.
