Watch Duran Duran With SL Avatars at the Olympics

As promised earlier, here's Duran Duran performing at the Olympics with Second Life avatars in the background to an audience of 4 billion (give or take, well, maybe 3.99 billion). Video gets avatar-ish around 3:15:

The live concert video was shot by the UK guy known as JJ Coronet in Second Life, who also shot the machinima, and as you can hear in the video, is pretty stoked to see it onstage. The show was part of a concert in Hyde Park connected to the Olympics opening, so while it wasn't part of the main opening events (which would have been seen by billions, alongside the Queen apparently parachuting from a helicopter with James Bond), the live audience is pretty large -- over 70,000, by one estimate. (And it likely showed up in lots of news coverage footage around the world.) The machinima footage was shot by JJ on Duran Duran's island in SL, featuring avatars of the band's fans, which the supergroup has been using in their live stage shows. According to Coronet, the SL footage was displayed for a few minutes during the show (for "Reflex", looks like). He says it's also featured in Duran Duran's latest DVD, Diamonds in the Mind, and may herald even more SL-related content from the group coming soon:

"I can't say officially what is going to come out of this because it hasn't been confirmed yet," Coronet tells me, "but it will be big. And it will involve Duran Duran in Second Life. The band are crazy about Second Life, so it will be really good what is going to come out really soon, it's very exciting." We will see: Join the SL group's fan page in Facebook for more updates.

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[jjccc coronet (@JJcccART)]

https://vimeo.com/45779363

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n5aUDv0CiU

This was the video used by Duran Duran at the hyde park gig if one dont work the vimeo one will

[Jo Yardley]

Seeing your own video made in SL being used would make even me watch anything Olympic related!
Well done.

[Gahs]

!Wow! 350 people saw a SL footage in Hyde Park and it was filmed on i-phone!
Impressive!

[Stone Semyorka]

Bravo, JJ!!

[Spiral Silverstar]

So, did anyone besides JJ know it was shot in Second Life....or care?