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The latest virtual world developed by Parallel World Labs for Rockheim - Virtual Rockheim - launched today, providing a multi-user environment to experience the Rock & Pop of Norway over the past 60 years!

The Norwegian government continues to leak more project information to the press. Highlighted in this article is Virtual Rockheim once again - showing an image of the Holodeck-like 3d playlists amongst more information on the whole Museum project itself.

For those who can read Norwegian and wish to know more, see this link.

 The Norwegian government has officially released some early information on the new Rockheim Rock & Pop Museum and Virtual Rockheim Experience that Stacey Spiegel & I have been working on (well I’ve been focused on the Virtual side). Time to show Web 2.0 what ROCK & ROLL is all about. A PDF of the full-page article in the Norwegian press is viewable: Rockheim in the News! (the article is in Norwegian FYI)

The pieces are starting to flow together. The data in the Rockheim Wiki, the KML (& Collada) file format translator, and a procedural 3d form generator can now generate some cool embedded content experiences into Google Earth in a relatively automated fashion (minus a few bugs/steps to automate). All the steps now work though it needs some optimization to be manageable through a webbrowser (this image has > 980 album links in it with cover art/etc.).

‘Second Earth’ is a reality, not just a dream. Onwards!

Just finished a set of interesting code! A wiki for Norwegian Rock & Pop (part of the Virtual Rockheim project PWL is working on), built from some core encyclopedic data we’ve gotten to start with (well the first 1127 people/bands so far) in XML. PwlWikiBot was written in C# (using the wonderful free DotNetWikiBot class) which converts all of the data to an editable Wiki format (while protecting the source material from user-editing - though they can ‘Add’ to any page), and cross-references Artists, Labels, and Decades of music.

I’m planning to cross-reference this to some other website resources to enhance the core data before it is opened up to the public for use/enhancement. My key goal is to automate Geo-referencing of the data and combination with the Google Map/Earth work that has been done thusfar!