UPDATE: As pointed out by Fish’s management in the comments section, Tuna Oddfellow will appear on America’s Got Talent, not Fish himself as written below. Thanks for the clarification.
We’ve written a bit about the Second Life magic community here on iTricks before, but now it seems to have made the biggest imprint on the popular virtual world to date. Tuna Oddfellow, a SL magician nabbed the top prize in Virtual NBC’s Avatar’s Got Talent contest, this earned him a million Linden dollars (a currency that equates to roughly $3,800 USD) and a chance for his real life counterpart, actual conjuror Fish The Magish, to appear on next week’s America’s Got Talent installment.
The Second Life News Network has a really great look at what goes into an online magic act (finding and writing scripts, recording the proper sound effects, running the programs correctly) and how his win was basically two years in the making.
We wish all the best to Tuna, Fish and any other hemispheres of this talented magician’s personality we are not yet aware of. Click after the jump to see some footage from the audition process to see what he was up against.