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Very soon you might be shuttling between a Playboy party and a Roberto Cavalli fashion show. Sony has constantly been trying to improve the Playstation Network, as the online experience plays a pivotal role in this era of gaming. One of the newest additions to PSN is Playstation Home, an interactive 3D world for PS3 users, currently in closed Beta.

Now Sony has made one more place available for Home users to explore when they decide to get out of their virtual apartments. Playstation Media and Events Space is a venue for virtual events within Home, which recently allowed some of the Home’s “closed beta” users to be part of Playstation Day on May 6, 2008, from their living rooms (or mother’s basement).

Users did not miss out on anything that transpired during the event in London since the virtual event was designed to closely mimic the live Playstation Venue. The users were fed the speeches at the event on large screens within the Space and a photo gallery was also made available to them.

It is becoming customary for online console gaming services to deliver media content related to real world events like E3 and GDC to the gamers. But Home will provide a more interactive way of delivering such content.

Sony plans to use Media and Space to serve as the virtual venue of a wide gamut of real world events including video game events and fashion shows. The best part of Media and Space is that it can be altered to replicate the real-world venue of a real event.

For the uninitiated, the Playstation Home is a community-centric virtual world for the PS3, where every user will have an avatar of his own and a virtual apartment. The users will be able to interact and can meet in their apartments or in other places like Media and Space. The service will be free to download but users will have to pay for virtual goods like clothes, accessories and furniture - the generic virtual world props.

Read [Spong]

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