In another Wishfarmers project for Second Life, my team and I created the “Personal AccuWeather System” as a marketing initiative for Weather giant Accuweather.com.
Integrating their live weather data, the device “follows” its user around Second Life, rendering the current weather conditions of their real-life location – over their head.
Yes, it is hilarious.
Users enter their location by zip code, and the system continuously re- creates local weather conditions up-to-the-minute. Day and night, fog, wind, rain, snow and lightning all follow the user around as they go about their regular “virtual” lives.
Components
Client - SecondLife proprietary "LSL" language
Server - Perl