Sports communities in Second Life – A new satellite dish?

With all my comments on needing to engage with virtual worlds and the olympics and the work I have done up to now with online sports representations is it really great to find an exemplar of a community driven collect of sports enthusiasts.
One great example is the Global Online Hockey Association

In particular it is worth taking [...]

Crowdsourced digital recreation of Olympics 2012?

I managed to get this idea into a tweet of 140 characters. Which I guess means that its not too bad an idea and easy to explain. The original text was
“2012 olympics spectators to share their videos. Pump video into project natal. Mocaped events rerendered in vw. Bypass agencies”

Image from Konami Track and Field at arcade-history.com
To [...]

Dear London 2012 Olympic people – Wakeup to Virtual!

For a while a few of us have been pushing the odd button, making suggestions and plays to various people that London 2012 really should have a rich and ground breaking virtual component. It could, after all, be the cheapest, yet most far reaching impact on the games and the future of sport. 

Sport works in 3d, [...]