VIRTUAL HISTORY MADE AT FUSION EVENT IN ROYAL, MICHIGAN
August 21st, 2009 VIRTUAL HISTORY MADE AT FUSION EVENT IN ROYAL, MICHIGAN
Aug. 19, 2009, Royal Oak, Michigan (For Immediate Release) A Fusion Event happens when a live event fuses together simultaneously with an event scheduled in the virtual world (Second Life) populated by alter-ego animated people, called Avatars. On August 16th, Avatars from all over the world ‘transported’ into a virtual world and concert stage known as Callidora Beach in Second Life, where they watched both worlds fuse, in the form of Avatars performing along with a live video feed displayed on virtual flat screens bordering the dance floor and above the virtual stage. On these virtual flat screens, people attending as their Avatars in Second Life, watched a live performance by the very talented rock ‘n’ roll composer, Liz Larin and her band. Liz Larin and her band put on the rock n’ roll performance of the century at Memphis Smoke, August 16th, at the Stratton Foundation Machinima Festival Fusion Event. Machinima is a new word that comes to us from the gaming world and combines the words ‘machine’ and ‘cinema.’ It is the use of real-time three-dimensional (3-D) graphics rendering engines to generate computer animation.
Virtual history was made; and a vision realized; a vision of Doug Stratton of the Stratton Foundation for Science and Technology - as an audience at Memphis Smoke witnessed the Fusion of both Liz Larin live and her sexy Avatar, dancing wildly on the virtual stage. At Memphis Smoke, this was shown on TVs hooked up as monitors to a computer on the Internet which broadcasted the Second Life view. At the same time Liz Larin in real life appeared on the flat screens in Second Life, for virtual attendees, from around the globe, to watch via a live stream. “I think we were all amazed when we saw it on the screen: it actually worked! It was like landing a man on the moon and the possibilities for using virtual world technologies to communicate in new and interesting ways seem unlimited,” said Liz Larin
Technical execution was a success. This seamless technological feat was executed by a cutting-edge software company, IDEACore-Interactive. Both firms, IDEACore-Interactive and the Stratton Foundation are located in Birmingham. “IDEACore and Delsol Filmworks streamed a live video feed of band and machinima productions, which was then melded onto the Callidora Beach virtual stage. The final integrated web browser view was presented back to patrons to see via a converted RF signal shown on the venue’s monitors,” said Joe Craig, President of IDEACore, LLC. See: www.IDEACore-Interactive.com.
The Stratton Foundation provides a scholarship to the esteemed College for Creative Studies, CCS. Scholarship recipient, Janya Shropshire, and her parents and brother were in attendance, to see her Machinima animation art, ‘Made of Sound’ a beautiful interpretation of one of Liz Larin’s songs from the new CD ‘LusterKraft.’ It was screened along with 14 Machinima works of art shown, before the Liz Larin concert. These too were shown on the virtual flat screens in Second Life as well as on the Flat Screens at Memphis Smoke, for all to enjoy in both worlds.
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