By Stone Culdesac

Here is a great video from Anthony Zuiker of CSI:NY fame and in this video he gives out some great information on tonight’s episode, Down the Rabbit Hole featuring Second Life. The first thing he mentions, and I saw it somewhere the other day, that CBS had acquired the Electric Sheep Company, which is a great move on their part, buy the Second Life creative team ESC and start building stuff to include it in some of your series that would lend itself to something like Second Life, such as CSI, and create some stickiness for your TV series.

He also describes the thought process behind the Down the Rabbit Hole episode, such as having the sim after the show that people can do stuff in and interact with, they are calling it the CSI:NY Virtual sim, where they have recreated the Flat Iron Building, not sure if that is right but it is the one you see in the Spiderman movies and episodes of Friends, they have recreated Times Square, the Chrysler building, the Empire State building, he says they have recreated every inch of New York city, so it really is a virtual representation. It will take you through an orientation process and then right after the show you will be able to do some cool things like a facial reconstruction game, puzzles and memory games, for the intermediate player you will be able to play Murder by Zuiker, a blog written by him in which you have to find one crime scene a month and the one who comes closest to giving the correct explanation of what happened wins a prize.

The last thing is Murder of the Month, where you can fly around virtual New York city, find crimes, solve the crimes, go to the virtual lab, be hands on inside the lab, and go to the Cisco teleconferencing system and deconstruct and solve the crimes every month. The same lab that you see in the show, will be the same in the virtual lab, with an audio/visual department, where you can trace, do fingerprints, do an autopsy, think about that, do an actual autopsy on a body to gather evidence, so you can be the CSI in first life and in Second Life, he says.

This looks so cool and will definitely be something I check out monthly to see what the crime is and whether people are actually playing and using the sim. Don’t forget, the show is on tonight October 24th at 10pm eastern time, 7pm SLT. Check out the new video below of the creator talking about the new Virtual New York city.

CSI:NY Second Life - Virtual New York

Posted to Technology Videos by eubeenhadd on October 24, 2007

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