It’s been a crazy week! Monday morning, bright and early SLT we had the ribbon cutting for virtual Palomar West. An excellent crowd joined us for the event, including some rather notable members of the SL press! Mat beat me to the punch about linking the Massively article, but I wanted to share some of the others I’ve found as well:

The Grid Live: Combining a slew of wonderful pictures with a quick description of the build and his experience, Stone Culdesac writes about his experience at Palomar West.

Cisco Newsroom: Announcing the opening of the sim at the HIMSS Conference, this site has some great facts about the future of the build, and details on the amazing technological additions to the hospital.

Your2ndPlace: Evansmom Goodspeed is not only a fun person to talk to, she’s also an excellent writer! Check out her scope of the project at this popular Second Life blogging community.

New World Notes: Last but not least, a late entry, for I am blind. The formerly embedded but still journalist Hamlet Au explains how Lauren is evil to him. Poor guy.

Thanks to everyone that attended throughout the day for making it a fun and education experience!

As Lauren has been blogging, we’ve had the pleasure of working with Southern California’s Palomar Pomerado Healthcare district and our longtime friends at Cisco to bring a virtual preview of one of the world’s most cutting-edge hospitals to Second Life. Massively, among others, picked up the news, praising the build for its clean look and lifelike medical demos.

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Join Millions of Us for a Second Life ribbon cutting for Virtual Palomar West: Hospital of the Future, a previsualization of Palomar West: Hospital of the Future. The virtual hospital – a simulation of a real world hospital campus due to open in 2011 in Southern California - gives visitors the opportunity to tour the facilities years before its doors actually open. Enjoy an immersive experience combining video, scripting, and architectural innovation.

Event Information
Palomar West, Second Life
Monday, February 25th, 2008
8 - 8:30 AM PST (SLT)

Contact me, Lyra Millionsofus in Second Life for event access.

Tomorrow morning starting at 9 am SLT we’ll be doing this event with Cisco and the Santa Fe Institute. Mixed reality with all the fixings!

As you can see, we’re running some streaming tests in preparation. The event will be streamed live to 4 locations on Cisco’s islands. Here are a couple of them.

Should be a lot of fun!