It’s Like Being At Wimbledon, Only Furrier

From itnews.com.au:

GLOBAL – IBM has recreated a ‘virtual Wimbledon’ in Second Life where users will be able to see matches being played by avatars using real match data from this year’s championships.

You know what would be even more exciting than watching virtual tennis being played by NPCs controlled through an XML stream fed from an actual tennis match? Paint. Drying. Or cricket.

Ian Hughes, a ‘metaverse evangelist’ at IBM, said that virtual worlds like Second Life allow people to “experience Wimbledon in a better way, with other people”.

And by “experience Wimbledon in a better way” he means “strap on a virtual penis and have a virtual 3-way with virtual Venus and Serena Williams.”

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