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Aug 21, 2006 | 10:50 PM

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Official, virtual edition of xB for Second Life residents

Toyota comes to Second Life
by Wagner James Au - August 20th, 2006

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Metaverse developer "Millions of Us" announced they had an agreement with Toyota to offer an official, virtual edition of the Scion xB to Second Life residents.

For good measure, the Millions staff (all wearing blue coveralls, like James Bond villian henchmen) made that announcement in the parking lot of a bitterly cold Fort Mason parking lot, tearing off in a real Scion, and when it rounded a curve, horn honking, released numerous copies into Second Life. (Fully-appointed and drivable around the 3D world, of course.) ...

http://games.gigaom.com/2006/08/20/a...o-second-life/

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Aug 22, 2006 | 03:10 PM

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bitterly cold Fort Mason

Please tell me where this bitterly cold fort mason is?

Either this old news, a premanition as to what's going to happen sometime in Dec or Nov, or these people have this global warming thing figure out.

Aug 22, 2006 | 03:32 PM

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I had the same reaction that you did when I read about the "bitterly cold Fort Mason parking lot."

After Googling, I decided that the article is talking about the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California, and the Second Life Community Convention, August 18th-20th, 2006.

Fort Mason Center
http://www.fortmason.org/

Second Life Community Convention 2006
http://www.slconvention.com/

I think those 3D virtual reality people do not really understand what "bitterly cold" means. LOL!

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