Nobel Prize Laureates Danced the Night Away in Night Club

Well...Not exactly. It's "Nobel prize laureates danced the night away in virtual night club".
"Live sounds and video were projected from the famous Club NEVERDIE into the physical night club, creating the illusion that the Nobel Laureates and the avatars were dancing and partying together" - Press release, Market Wire.
Ok. Bit wierd. Grumpy old gramps dancing to the flashing lights. Couple of questions. What happens if you link up a few night-clubs, and project the crowd in each into the others, creating the illusion of one massive night club? And secondly, why weren't the nobel winners projected out? But I'm pretty sure somebody must have thought about this already, and there must be nightclubs which share crowds virtually and I'm also sure there must be a lot more innovation to this than only sharing crowds. Definitely needs more looking into. But then, bloviating on this without pictures or a video is a bit pointless...


Ok. So I go over to check out Club Neverdie, and run smack bang into something even more wierd. Club Neverdie, it turns out, is a virtual space station, inside an online game called Entropia. Wierd part is, there's a big virtual universe inside the game, and hunders of thousands of registered members roaming and spending time in this universe. These players buy and sell parts of the world, with real money. Jon Jacobs, the guy who owns the club, brought the spaceship for $100,000. That's real money. And turns out there's a huge real estate boom in the Entropia universe. With players developing virtual property and selling it off.

Finally, the wierdest part is that the owners of these virtual properties, like Jacobs, are tying up with owners of real places, like the club the Nobel laureates ended up in, to mix up both worlds and produce cocktails of real and virtual worlds. This is getting just a little bit too close to the sci-fi movies and art and life symbiosis that I bloviated on in the previous post. Makes you kind of uncomfortable.