Monthly Archives: January 2008

MRO typist to present at NASA

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Hello Metaversals.
This weekend kicks off three straight days of metaverse chat -

NASA Jan. 26 Virtual Worlds conference Day 1 with Will Wright and Virtual World SIG Co-chair Corey Bridges of Multiverse.

More at:  http://amesevents.arc.nasa.gov/virtual-worlds/
NASA Jan. 27  Virtual Worlds conference Day 2 featuring
Virtual  World SIG Jan. 28 7pm SL time  with presenters Gemini Mobile

My talk at NASA is called “Shrinking Space: Designs for Augmented Exploration” and will focus on emerging technologies and how they will interface with and become part of – virtual worlds.  The whole event may be streamed into SL at a NASA sim like CoLab or Spaceport Alpha – I’m not sure but will try to logon from there.  You know MRO….have laptop will stream! 

I will try to logon from there if bandwidth allows.  Major kudos to Bruce Damer, a former SIG presenter who pulled the better part of this together.

Be there or be virtual!

Virtual World SIG presenters Forterra given award by IEEE.

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That’s right the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers … aka. IEEE have given a nod (or award?) to SIG presenter Forterra Systems.

They were noticed as “one of the five best technologies for 2008″. Their staff local to Palo Alto, CA have been big supporters of the Virtual World SIG and they have some fantastic virtual world tech. Their presentation from June 2007 at the SIG really showed what “serious games” can mean.

It’s breaking news relayed from Virtual Worlds News.com

Congrats, Forterra staff on the recognition of your work.

- MRO

Gemini Mobile to present at Jan. 28 Virtual World SIG

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Hello Virtual Worlders,

Rob Osborn of Gemini Mobile (http://www.geminimobile.com/) will present information about the company’s eXplo platform (http://www.geminimobile.com/products/community.html) on Jan. 28.

Here’s the description of the SIG:  (http://sdforum.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=650&parentID=483&nodeID=1  )
This will be a joint meeting with the SDForum Mobile SIG.

The idea is, how can the MMO / Virtual World experience and services be extended to mobile platforms?

Virtual Worlds News had complete coverage of their latest news here (http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/11/wireless-mobile.html)
And shortly after agreeing to present, Gemini Mobile got blogged at Massively.com (http://www.massively.com/2007/11/07/new-product-will-let-you-mmo-on-the-go/)

So this is shaping up to be quite an interesting presentation, as we find out how virtual worlds can become lodged in the palm of your hand!

Location for Second Life and simulcast to be posted here.

Save the event for your calendar and tune in for it!

I hope to be better able to stream this time… anyone care to donate a web-cam to the SIG??

Thanks for your continued virtualness,

MRO.