NMC Campus Observer

Johnny99 Gumshoe Rocks Out NMC Opening

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Apr 27, 2006 03:13pm

For the grand opening of the NMC Second Life Campus, one of the busiest places was Huntley Hall, where guitar virtuoso Johnny99 Gumshoe was jamming ferocious guitar music.

Johnny99 Gumshoe NMC Campus Opening Jam

His music was coming to us live, beamed into SecondLife directly from his studio. We are looking forward to more live performances of various forms here at the NMC Campus. But more importantly, it gives us new ideas on what we can do with bringing live audio streams from the net into Second Life.

As our first NMC Observer Podcast, we have Johnny99 Gumshoe’s leadoff song available for you as an MP3 available as links at the end of this article and will be using it for the theme track to our upcoming series of interviews we hope to record in Second Life and offer as podcasts.

“Johnny99″ is actually a music faculty at one of the NMC member campuses (a real one!), and the music his avatar performed came to use live as it was streamed from his studio. Using standard audio streaming technology (MP3 stream), music form his guitar was sent out, and attached to the Huntley Hall on the NMC Second Life campus. This means, as participants approached the room where the audio was associated, they could listen in, and it even increased in volume as an avatar gets closer to the source.

This is but one way we are considering connection RL (Real Life) into SL (Second Life). The audio stream could be a remote expert giving a presentation, a storytelling interacting with our campus, a recording of a world event or science experiment, and we can bring the audio directly into Second Life. There are a number of desktop software applications that can allow any computer to act as an audio stream source, and we are right now running some experiments in the NMC Audio labs.

Story filed under: Audio / Video, What's Happening

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