{"id":102,"date":"2009-04-28T19:26:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T18:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2009-04-28T19:26:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T18:26:43","slug":"dear-london-2012-olympic-people-wakeup-to-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/04\/28\/dear-london-2012-olympic-people-wakeup-to-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear London 2012 Olympic people – Wakeup to Virtual!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sport works in 3d, is rich in statistics, has global interest. Virtual worlds and social media fit very nicely into that space. What do we have for 2012 as a strategy? No idea, cant find one.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still at least 2012 can be shown the way by what the Singapore 2010 youth games are going to do. This article on Virtual Worlds New<\/a>s shows the bids and sums involved (including my old firm, who’d of think it \ud83d\ude42 ) You can build a lot of virtual world experience using the available tools and $10 million. Look what we did with no funding and crowd sourcing for Wimbledon in Second Life !\u00a0<\/p>\n

My door\/email\/twitter\/avatars are open to be approached, we are all happy to help. The country has the skills, in fact some people are world leaders in the field, we also have a thriving games industry.<\/p>\n