WoW + Second Life Crossover Event?
by Mike D'Anna 
May 29th 2006 at 9:00AM
While browsing the latest WoW news today, I stumbled across this tidbit of info; A faction of players from two of the most popular online games, WoW and Second Life, are apparently planning some sort of unofficial crossover event, to take place in late July, according to this blog posting. No solid details are given on exactly what the event is or how it's to take place, but I'm just curious as to how such an event could happen. Players from one game meeting up in the other, and vice-versa? Ok, fine...but doesn't sound all that sexy right off the bat. Then again, there could be something actually cool going on here that I'm just completely unaware of....it happens. I'll keep my ears open...Filed under: Events, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
joey May 29th 2006 9:03AM
They need to make a model exporter for wow that will create an avatar in secondlife of your character (armor included). That would pretty much do it.
Jerry P May 30th 2006 8:11AM
> They need to make a model exporter for wow that will create an avatar in secondlife of your character (armor included). That would pretty much do it.
Not quiiite there yet, but check this out: http://ogle.eyebeamresearch.org . Eyebeam R&D in New York has been exporting 3D models from virtual worlds including WoW and Second Life, and 3D printing them. They printed my SL avatar and imported it into Google Earth. Pics in this blog post: http://tinyurl.com/m2b6d
I'm the one who posted the Second Life of Warcraft event plans. Should be a blast. Looking for more WoW guilds who want to stream live video into Second Life and communicate between the worlds. The plan is to do a full-day event with multiple streams for people to choose from and a schedule of games and conversations about virtual worlds and the metaverse. The whole thing will be documented in machinima form. Hit me up at jerry[at]electricsheepcompany[dot]com if you want to get involved or shoot the breeze about what the heck this is! :]