Virtual Tennis

In about 1983 there was a commodore 64 game known as virtua tennis, it was actually quite fun. You got to play as one of three or four top players at the time and you had a selection of about three shots (forehand, backhand, and smash) that would work depending upon where you were standing in relation to the ball at the exact moment you pushed the joystick button.

Well enough reminiscing its only 2007 and now they are broadcasting the Australian Open in second life. This is probably more accurate virtua tennis because each shot is captured by the cameras and technology around melbourne park and rebroadcast into the online world. It all sounds kind of weird and you can in fact wander round the whole of melbourne park and buy merchandise (both real and virtual) etc all in the virtual world. Supposedly this is the web of the future whereby pages aren't really pages but are instead a complete virtual world that you can navigate. The only shame about this melbourne park thingee is that it's invitation only. So if you got any spare ones send me one over and I'll conduct a full review including tasting all the virtual beer available.