On September 6th, Cranial Tap launched a Second Life contest for 1-800-Flowers called "Fields of the Virtual World". The contest asks users to submit pictures of Second Life flowers along with a short story.

Five semi-finalists will be selected to compete for the grand prize: a video interview with their avatar to be played on a fifteen foot video screen in Times Square during November and December. The grand prize winner will be voted for by the residents of Second Life themselves.

Cranial Tap developed the kiosk technology that accepts the entries as well as tracks and reports system metrics. Like the kiosks, the entry displays were built from scratch by Cranial Tap and include such functionality as displaying story names, giving story notecards to visitors, and allowing visitors to vote for the grand prize winner.

Contest SLurl:
slurl.com/secondlife/Montserrat/189/158/22