Merlin shows the young Arthur the wonders of community at the new Beta Business Park in Second Life™. Produced and presented by Beta Technologies, a Second Life™ Gold Solution Provider. Machinima capture by Sudane Erato. Editing by Mike Sudyn. Voices by Ollie Wyman and Michael Rivera Smith. Script by Almo Schumann. A huge thanks to Gayle Cabaret and her team of concierges.

A reporter's day in Second Life. Original voiced by NBC reporter Al Roker, this video was produced for a Xerox Product Launch held simultaneously in Boston's Fenway Park and on Xerox Island in Second Life. Produced by Beta Technologies, the video was written by Velocity, directed by Jeff Bush and edited by Mike Sudyn.

Xerox Chief Technology Officer Sophie Vanderbroek introduces the virtual world of Second Life to the 2006 Xerox Leadership Conference. The video was produced by Beta Technologies, a "Second Life Gold Solutions Provider" serving an international corporate clientele with virtual world content and services. The video was created by Jeff Bush and Mike Sudyn.

This project — the recreation of Baroque Lisbon in 1755, just before the big earthquake which destroyed the city — was used by Beta Technologies as a means to do heavy-duty, intensive use of our own OpenSim mini-grid, to test the technology to the extreme under "real" conditions, with buildings of 8000+ prims in a single region.

The video shows how crude logging in can be (the worst-case scenario) but how smoothly things work when everything has rezzed. The result was that the technology is "good enough" for professional, regular work, although it requires a lot of time and patience in constant maintenance to make sure everything works flawlessly. For low-budget projects (where the customer cannot afford the cost of leasing private islands from Linden Lab) or machinima (where scenarios will be basically destroyed after the videos are shot), OpenSim really becomes a viable alternative.