Virtual, group-designed hotel goes live
Posted by: hipstomp on Tuesday, May 08 2007
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/virtual_groupdesigned_hotel_goes_live_6241.asp

Today is launch day for the new Aloft Virtual Hotel which we wrote about last year. To get you back up to speed, Aloft Hotels, a subsidiary of Starwood (and sibling to the swanky W Hotels) has been implementing feedback from Second Life users on how to revamp their virtual hotel--with a plan to implement the design changes in their real hotels, too.

Fate is a cruel mistress, friends; four years of design school, and we designers may be put out of work by a bunch of transgender teenagers with batwings for ears.

http://www.virtualaloft.com/

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