Real TV turns into virtual life
Oct 20th, 2007 by dabloguiman
I don’t watch much TV other than news and a few sporting events but I am always amazed at the way different media continue to converge and be used in ways that were not even imaginable a couple of years ago.
The next episode of CSI:NY to be aired next Wednesday and known as CSI:NY does Second Life will see one of its characters Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) entering Second Life “to pursue a killer who has killed a Second Life user in a case of virtual stalking gone too far”.
According to Techcrunch,
CSI:NY fans will be encouraged to join Second Life and investigate the case by following a link on the CBS website. CSI:NY will have three options for CSI-related inworld activities. The first option will allow viewers to walk around virtual New York buildings and visit a CSI lab and play forensic games. The second option consists of a game called “Murder by Zuiker,” a unique murder plot which can be solved by users finding clues. The 100 people who come closest to solving the murder will win virtual gifts.
The big tie-in gives new users the ability to become CSI investigators, complete with field kit and tools, and are given a chance to interview suspects and to solve the murder featured in the actual CSI:NY episode. The episode itself will apparently end in a cliff-hanger with the solution not revealed until February.
Amazing! It should be a lot of fun.
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