December 17, 2007
Microsoft Kicks-Off Online Student Avatar Playground & Competition
On Friday, Microsoft launched their “Ultimate Steal” promotion, which allows university students from around the globe to create and customize their own avatar, or digital alter-ego, at the Ultimate College All-Nighter and Ultimate College Idol “playgrounds”. To get started and create your own avatar you’ll first need to head over to theultimatesteal.com/Sweepstakes and register.
Once registered, students can begin to create their characters, and utilizing Voki technology from Oddcast, they’ll also be able to use their voice to make a speaking avatar story, and then share their stories or songs in the “playgrounds”, publish them to other social networking websites (like Facebook), or e-mail them to friends. (more…)
