Second Life Consumer Products

This globe uses the same KML file used by Google Earth, which means that it can take many of the KML files produced for Google Earth and display them directly in SL. If the KML feed includes images, or links to web pages, then the Globe will display those too. As well as KML the Globe will also read RSS/RDF/ATOM feeds and use its own geocoder to plot story locations based on country or city names in story titles. If you don't like the Globe format then the Globe can instantly turn itself into a 2D world map. For sale shortly, in the meantime please contact us, particularly if you have a bespoke requirement.

Our first HUD is a generic RSS reader. You can load it up with all your favourite RSS feeds and have it cycle through them continuously, or just stay on any one. We have designed this HUD with a keen eye for usability so most controls are accessible through dialog panels, and the HUD dynamically changes shape to fit in most HUD positions.

This is designed not so much as a consumer product but rather as a simple and effective display of SL-RL interfacing. Each cloud on the display is linked into its own RSS weather feed from Yahoo. Once an hour each cloud updates itself and changes the weather symbol to match the current weather for its given location, and change the colour spot below it to reflect temperature. The distributed nature of the design means that you just need to add more clouds to add more detail to the map, or to get the weather for other places.

In the real world Nabaztag is a 20cm high plastic rabbit with a wifi connection. He (or she) can be sent RSS feeds or controlled through an explicit web services interface, and a loudspeaker on the rabbit reads out any messages received. Of course we just had to build a virtual nabaztag and then link it into our real Nabaztag. So now any visitor to our SL offices will be detected by the virtual Nabaztag and "announced" in the real world by the real Nabaztag. If you have a Nabaztag of your own we'd be more that happy to give you a copy of the code and the virtual Nabaztag. For the rest of you, this demo hopefully migh tspark a few thoughts on the very different ways in which you can link SL and RL.

This globe is designed to display locations that are user configurable and stored in a notecard. You can display all points together or make "where is" enquiries. Clicking on a point can provide additional information from a note card, a link to a URL, or a teleport within SL. Any map image can be used (it comes with Earth and Moon), and you can pan, tilt, resize and spin the globe. More info and buy from SLBoutique.