Electric Sheep Company Builds a Second Life CSI Lab

Anthony Zuiker, creator of the CSI franchise and keynote speaker at the upcoming Virtual Worlds Conference, is working with the Electric Sheep Company to develop a CSI lab in Second Life. CBS contributed to the ESC's last round of funding  in February. "And then they called and said, 'Hey, we just bought some of this company and what do you think?' and I'm like, 'What I think is, I want to have 16 million people go to first life ["CSI: NY"] and to Second Life, that's what I think. That'd really be a lot of fun,' " said Zuiker, who's been working on the project about three months and says he logs in to Second Life every day. Zuiker plans both a tie-in with a virtual worlds-themed episode as well as a Second Life location. [via Philly.com]

"What you'll see is Gary Sinise's avatar be downloaded . . . He'll walk and he'll fly," Zuiker said.

In the fifth episode of the upcoming season, TV Guide reports that a murderer will escape into Second Life and not return until spring. Users can help solve the murder in the meantime.

"The campaign will be something like, 'Your first life begins at 10 o'clock. But your Second Life begins this weekend.' You'll be able to go and download and get in the site and play in the ['CSI'] lab."

The Sheep are working to build a virtual lab where users can recreate the experiments and tests from the show. There will also be contests through a Zuiker Blog, allowing users to view a dead body and formulate an opinion on what happened. Zuiker will then rank the responses.

Zuiker has also described he location as an ongoing mystery lab: "What I’m creating is this multimedia, virtual crime lab that will actually take place and be live and active that same weekend for the next year. You’ll now be able to actually solve one crime per month, like a real investigator."

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[sean percival]

For a quick tour of CSI in second life check out:

http://www.landmarkisland.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1068596%3ABlogPost%3A1046