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Friday, June 02, 2006
Surveys inside Second Life
Inspired by Matt's FlickrScreen in Second Life, and a very interesting piece in the Harvard Business Review on Avatar-based Marketing, I spent a couple of evenings in SL hacking together an interface to GMI's Net-MR survey software, using LSL's new llHTTPRequest feature.
Below is a video I took earlier tonight - as an avatar walks towards the GMI survey object, it senses the avatar's presence and asks the avatar to touch it in order to start a survey. If the avatar decides to touch the survey object, it starts asking the survey questions using the GMI survey engine.
Too small? Larger size video, in new window
You can probably tell that I haven't spent any time on creating an interesting object itself, but the script running the survey could be attached to any object in SL, so much more sophisticated implementations are possible. Virtual shopping inside an entire store, virtual product/concept testing, you name it...
I'll be happy to show this "in person" to people in Second Life - my SL name is "Mario Sonic", feel free to ping me when I'm online. Alternatively, the demo survey object is on my little island (slurl): http://slurl.com/secondlife/Albata/80/10/22/, feel free to come and visit and try it out.
(Small tech note to the streaming video: I've used the excellent ffmpegX for Max OS X to encode the original .mov to .flv format for streaming in the Flash Video Player.)
Below is a video I took earlier tonight - as an avatar walks towards the GMI survey object, it senses the avatar's presence and asks the avatar to touch it in order to start a survey. If the avatar decides to touch the survey object, it starts asking the survey questions using the GMI survey engine.
Too small? Larger size video, in new window
You can probably tell that I haven't spent any time on creating an interesting object itself, but the script running the survey could be attached to any object in SL, so much more sophisticated implementations are possible. Virtual shopping inside an entire store, virtual product/concept testing, you name it...
I'll be happy to show this "in person" to people in Second Life - my SL name is "Mario Sonic", feel free to ping me when I'm online. Alternatively, the demo survey object is on my little island (slurl): http://slurl.com/secondlife/Albata/80/10/22/, feel free to come and visit and try it out.
(Small tech note to the streaming video: I've used the excellent ffmpegX for Max OS X to encode the original .mov to .flv format for streaming in the Flash Video Player.)
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