NOAA's Virtual Island

A brief tour of NOAA's prototype virtual island based on the platform known as Second Life.
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/outreach/sl/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteroa/1...

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[leavebeaver2me]

I spent over an hour exploring the island and there's some things that are broken: The media link on the Science on Sphere is dead, for some reason there are four planes in the Hurricane Tour that trail each other (I'm not sure if there's supposed to be a scripted announcer as well since I didn't see anything in local chat about what was going on), last thing I noticed was the live weather over the map doesn't work but I'm guessing it was broken on one of many SL updates.

[burping tiger]

I fail to understand why you would participate in this rather than the actual thing.

[RedDawnJensen]

Love this place, went Geocaching here and got a crab! 3:18

But man, I miss weather island so much. I got a weather buoy from a builder there, Its now on Xstreet but with less prims. Ive got something rare, w00t!

[MrSltaiwan]

美國海洋大氣局地球系統研究實驗室

[jcfreitas1956]

Being NOAA what it is I found this surprising and went on a check and today (Apr 21st) it is correct: if you position yourself at the beginning of runway 27 you will be looking towards West... Perhaps they already corrected the problem?

[Spoolz07]

It's fascinating, but I've just noticed that the runway designations are the wrong way round... Runway 27 should point west towards 270 degrees and Runway 09 should point east towards 090 degrees. Other than that it's brilliant!

[Captain Jack]

Being a licensed USCG Master (Captain) I find this NOAA VR experience a fantastic tool. I use NOAA's weather pages to keep my passengers and crew safe by avoiding bad weather. Im happy to see NOAA taking the jump into the 3D world. You guys are fantastic to do this! Good job!

[Alan Khamsouk]

Awesome

[trechan]

i just finished installing the game to lol

[FaRi Elfarero]

funny