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  • On Second Life, the Sprint Center Goes Latino

    Fri Apr 20, 2007 at 11:37:21 AM

    Even in the virtual word, the Sprint Center looks like a giant radial.
    The Sprint Center opened a few days ago – on Second Life, a Sims knockoff. The real deal won’t open for another 173 days.

    Welcome to the inside of the Death Star.
    Sprint is marketing the cyber arena “exclusively” to Latin music fans and will stream concerts from the Sprint-sponsored Telemundo reality TV show, Concierto Clandestino. Sounds like Second Lifers are getting an even rawer deal than Kansas Citians. No Big 12 basketball tournament. No High School Musical on ice. Not even lucha libre.

    Inside the Sprint Center, it appears they want to -- no surprise here -- sell you a phone.

    Still, I’m betting on the virtual Sprint Center to lure a pro basketball or hockey franchise before Kansas City does. Maybe the virtual Penguins will leave Pittsburgh after all.

    Missing from the arena floor: a tenant.

    The screen shots are courtesy of the Three O’Clock in the Morning blog. -- Justin Kendall

    4 Comments:

    ACollins says:

    I don't know a soul who knows anything about Second Life who refers to it as a "Sims knock-off." Clearly this writer does not get it.

    "A Sims knockoff"? It's obvious you have zero experience with Second Life.

    Second Life is the fastest growing virtual world in existence. It has its own economy, it's own culture, and has been accorded the status of a pseudo-nation by virtue of the fact that more than one real world country is establishing a virtual embassy there.

    feeble says:

    "Second Life is the fastest growing virtual world in existence."

    Care to qualify that? A MMO enterprise with 200K active subs, worldwide, is hardly impressive.

    Now, if you qualify "virtual world" to leave out things with more overt "game" mechanics, you might get a bit further. One could also argue that SL is the world's fasted growing virtual Ponzi Scheme, but that's neither here nor there.

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