3D Advertising for a 3D World

Hi,

We at WBA Advertising offer a unique opportunity for all designers in Second Life. We carryout a full turnkey service to have your wares show in full 3D movies directly into your premises. Afterall this is a 3D world, so why just settle for 2D pictures?

Our solution, we carryout a full movie production of your range of wares, in our fully equiped studios, all movies are tuned and formatted to show very quickly to your customers as they enter your shop. We fully host and stream the movies, using several streaming dedicated movie servers across the USA and Europe. We also supply and install all required hardware/software including many bespoked designed screens to suit your location.

Checkout our website http://www.wba-advertising.com dedicated to the designers of Second Life and all are welcome.

Url please.

Nice idea, just a couple of thoughts.

1) The red on grey text is difficult to read.

2) I looked at a few of the movies, and they appeared to be all clothing related. People can design buildings, environments and much more - you may want to specify if you're just doing clothing or anyone/anything who builds in Second Life.

Good luck, it certainly seems an interesting service - although of course it's still only on a 2D screen...

Broccoli

They are not all clothing related...
Great work, I am very interested in your services, however, I am wondering if the models are able to do something else other than spin or walk? is that possible?

Hi,
Thanks for the responses. We started doing ingame movies back in October 2006 after carrying out research into what shoppers would like to see. The majority said they wanted a way of seeing what the product looked like from all angles, and how the clothing reacted in a 'normal' situation (walking).. oh and didn't want yet more scritped texture downloading 'vendor, holovendor' type machines causing lag.

We believe we have covered most of those 'wishes' in our current activities, and have reduced to a minimum any overheads a movie sytem would cause, through numerous processes to make sure our movies are clean, sharp, smooth and large enough, that don't require resourses from the Second Life servers (already overburdened with downloading huge flat 2d Pictures and scripts). Our movies are 'throttled' to maintain a smooth stream and unlike full RSTP streaming movies, once they download they play directly from the users harddisc without the further need for bandwidth.

We are developing many different methods to show off the various wares that designers/creators spend a lot of time and love, creating. For instance, we now shoot movies using 'Blue Screen' which allows us to place sharp descriptions of the goods shown, and some awesome backdrops. We can also capture greater movement such as animated scripts (see the Pirate Lady on RHDesigns Costume movie), we have RL companies developing more and more methods to control movements within Second Life to extend our services to House builders, Appartment renters/landlords, even land sales by offering promotional views of land for sale from a menu driven media player.

We do currently make movies of weapons, hair styles, shapes, skin, jewelry and accessories, even portfolios for models and agencies. We have been comssioned to make a movie of a Fashion Show to broadcast into various areas in Second Life, to remove the SIM restrictions and the lagg that goes with.

Our investments go beyond what we are currently doing, to reach new horizons, breaking the so called limitations. The next phased release will be the ability to show more than a single movie stream into a parcel of land, so stores with large areas and or floors, can show different movies of their goods, in the relevant areas. We are exploring menu driven 'personal Hud screens' that you wear so you can watch our movies to further reduce the need for lots of shop screens!

We host a website so shoppers can keep an eye on the latest wares of designers featured.
We have introduced another streaming server, making 3 in total now across the USA and Europe, with a capacity of 4.6tb of bandwidth, to satisfy the growing need for movies to 'enhance' existing systems. We have developed a whole range of screen types, from curved for wasted corner space, window and door screens, even screens suitable for Malls, our latest the 'Triscreen Point of Sale' enables shoppers to buy directly from alongside a movie screen, without the need for over burdening scripted vending machines, potentially reducing the need for large flat 2d pictures requiring huge bandwidth resourses causing ever increasing lag on the database servers.

We are always interested in carrying out 'custom' work if you have something that you believe a movie would enhance the way its presented?

News Update:

We have increased our server numbers, giving us a total of 6.9tb's bandwidth for hosting the ingame movies and website support. Our website, although only live for less than a month is already drawings over 11,000 hits per day.

We are adding Flash support and converting our movies to give both options, so that those without QuickTime facilities can view the creations (estimated time for completion of this project: 2 weeks) after which all movies will be co-hosted in both formats.

We have comissioned our own suite of media players which do not require deeding to the land to operate so you can take them with you if you move (useful for anyone renting land), this also adds to the security of your playing media. Remote controls are now included to give clients and users control over certain features of the system.

More exciting features will be released soon.

Latest News:

It has always been our wish to break the 'limitation' of being able to show more than one movie in a single parcel/land/sim.. over the past few months we have been working very hard with some very talented and lateral thinking RL and SL companies... Together (from our resulting partnership) we launched the first ever full blown system, that can show seperate movies into a single parcel/land/sim.

We have a fully installed working system for anyone interested to come along and see it for yourself (bring 5 friends so they can each watch a different movie to you). There are many applications for this system.

We have implimented into our core business for advertising the movies we make for designers/vendors in SL and offer it as a enhancement feature, which will become the 'norm'.

We have also developed a 'retail' version so anyone can install it into:-
House - different movies in 7 rooms in the home
Appartments - fed up not being able to watch your own movies?
Malls - Now owners can offer numerous designers the ability to have their own advertising movies, without the need for parceling.

The list is only thwarted by your own imagination.

Need further information, or simply want to take a look for yourself, IM me ingame.

AWM Mars

NOTE: We do not use the multi-stacking QuickTime 'feature'.

This is a cool concept, good luck with it. I have to agree with the previous comment about the website itself - the red text is nearly impossible to read....

Opps, I wasn't seeing that for myself until mentioned again, consider it changed Thanks for the comments

Hi Again,

Hopefully you will see a difference on the website now the text colour has been changed (feedback please).

We have completed the addition of flash streams option for those that do not have QuickTime. We will be further enhancing the flash streaming using new a codex that offers better quality and streaming abilities, than the low resolution versions currently hosted.

Look out for us at the new Weapons Expo in March, where we will be utilising the 'multi screen server' in a single sim (no parcels) to cover the vast array of goods on display.

Again, we are sponsoring the Fashion Show at Caledon Sim in March, in association with Prim & Proper Designs, we will be offering some great prizes to the many winners.

Stop by our offices in game, and pick up our latest handout, which includes many additions for new installations, for our valued clients.

Regards,
AWM Mars
For and on behalf of the WBA-Advertising Group