CRANIAL TAP, Inc. Releases WeatherBug® Panel to residents of Second Life®

The line between online visual environments and real life blurred today as Cranial Tap releases the WeatherBug Panel to the Second Life® community. The fully interactive display provides real time weather data provided by the expansive WeatherBug network. Residents can place the displays in their virtual homes, businesses or social spaces.

The interactive panel provides a menu of features that leverage real world data in 3D virtual environments. Timely information provided includes current weather, high and low temperatures and an animated wind speed and direction gauge. The panel supports current or SL time, and temperature in Fahrenheit or Celsius.

The WeatherBug real time display is just one example of Cranial Tap’s growing list of technologies that serve to increase enterprise productivity. While fun and engaging, the panel’s core functionality is crucial in supporting today’s virtual world business applications. Other Cranial Tap technologies include data visualization tools, metrics analysis, environment and media management.

See it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qDILwBc15U
Try it for yourself: slurl.com/secondlife/Cortex/27/231/56

The Cranial Tap WeatherBug® Panel

When WeatherBug® announced their API contest in June we knew it was a good opportunity for us to demonstrate the breadth of our skill set for creating data driven objects within virtual worlds. The fact that the WeatherBug® API is so well thought out and simple to use just made our job that much easier.

Our entry for the contest, aptly titled The Cranial Tap WeatherBug® Panel, relies on design and functionality that is core to all virtual world business applications, including: remote data access, meaningful data visualization, and simple, but effective, user interface design. The panel is not just a static data display - it is fully interactive, engaging, and fun. We think it will be a big hit when we release it to the Second Life® population.

WeatherBug® has a more detailed post about our panel and how it works on their blog, Inside WeatherBug, but if you've got Second Life installed you can see it in action right now by visiting our new virtual headquarters on the island of Cortex: slurl.com/secondlife/Cortex/27/231/56.