I had a great chat with Temporal Mitra from Temporal Industries the other day. They have some very interesting new products coming onto the market place in Second Life.

The first is a media player called “follow me” which ingeniously uses a particle script to allow the player screen to always be facing the user (as you can see in the picture above). This could be great for orientation guides or tours of sims, as well as individual users.

The content on these screens is handled client side so you cannot see what is on another users screen. In this way the follow me screens are totally private and not related to land settings.

TIM are also providing a range of other products, including HUD versions, and enterprise version for education and alot of slick smart objects housing the players. Some of these have a revenue model that is rental based. In these cases, sometimes the objects housing the player ( Temporal showed me a smart fish tank ) are gifted to the renter at the end of the deal.

One of the most interesting products we looked at was a free player. This will feature advertising, but a huge array of free high quality tv content. Temporal sees this a way to free up the grid of billboard advertising, with the arguement being that if people can use advertising on a product like this it will be far more effective than static panels.