Virtual World sig

 I found this interesting article about how Microsoft has internal “Quests” that are worked on collaboratively.

You can safely say that the reality that “Work is an MMOG” has arrived.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080626/D91HVAS80.html 

Eilif Trondsen of SRI Consulting Business Intelligence will be hosting a panel this Friday in Second life:
“Year in Review, Year Ahead”

Eilif writes:
As part of our meeting of the Virtual Worlds @ Work consortium at SRI on Friday, June 27 we will have an panel session in Second Life at 9AM PST with four panelists who are very actively involved in the virtual
worlds industry:

* Christian Renaud, Chief Architect, Networked Virtual
Environments, Cisco Systems

* David Wortley, Director, The Serious Games Institute, Coventry
University in the UK

* Justin Bovington, CEO of Rivers Run Red (A virtual worlds
professional services firm with offices in Europe and North America)

* Nick Wilson, Managing Director, Clever Zebra and vBus Expo

The inworld session will be take place in the auditorium at the
Serious Game Institute:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/SGI%20Nexus/96/107/27

The panel session will explore virtual worlds developments during last
year and what they see ahead for the coming year. The inworld session
will be open and free free for anyone interested in attending. Feel
free to share this notifcation with anyone who might be interested in
attending.

Thanks.
Eilif

Eilif Trondsen, Ph.D.
Director, Virtual Worlds @ Work
SRI Consulting Business Intelligence

Event will be LIVE at 7PM PST.

If not seeing media, refesh the page! For event description read post below this one.

For an Second Life(tm) meeting place, meet as usual at: Innovation Island (this link will start the Second Life program)
You can view the presentations with the embedded viewer. Video will be active during the presentation.
If not working please try: http://ustream.tv/channel/virtual-world-sig

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For an SL meeting place, meet as usual at: Innovation Island (this link will start the Second Life program)
You can view the presentations with the embedded viewer. Video will be active during the presentation.
If not working please try: http://ustream.tv/channel/virtual-world-sig

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Virtual Worlds Managment, creator of Virtual Worlds News has posted a list of over 100 youth-oriented virtual worlds.

The list is at: http://www.virtualworldsmanagement.com/2008/youthworlds.html

This list took me by surprise - but - when you consider that “every toy is now getting it’s own virtual world” then it adds up since so many thousands of toys are launched each year. Check out the list for any important worlds you see upcoming.

[UPDATE]
Thanks for staying posted, I wish this could have been streamed.  As it happened, the camera was not hooked up to a  laptop so it did not happen.  Apologies.  Normally I do the streaming myself on my own dime, but in this case I had to run the real-world stage announcements etc.  I invite you to our other sig meetings and will post any links I can to the archived video of today.  Thanks and wish this could have happened.  Best, Bob Ketner

Hi,
Bob Ketner here, I’m not running the camera or audio today, but I’m going to try to direct any media here via ustream. I won’t be in SL either due to organizing the RL conference.

For an SL meeting place, meet as usual at: Innovation Island (this link will start the Second Life program)
You can view the presentations with the embedded viewer. Video will be active during the presentation.
If not working please try: http://ustream.tv/channel/virtual-world-sig

Hello,
Tomorrow’s the day to be part of the conversation as Virtual Worlds Go Mobile with talks from Nokia, SKT, 4 VC’s, MBlox, Veepers, Gemini mobile, WiFi Army, and Smith Micro.

This afternoon conference coincides with alongside a flurry of press releases and announcements from virtual world platforms and media companies that are taking virtual worlds to the new platforms of phones and mobile devices. Get the inside forecasts and views on these new developments!

Register here:
http://www.sdforum.org/

Virtual Worlds Go Mobile

11:45am - 5:00pm February 26, 2008

Virtual Goes Mobile
Crossing the Chasm from the Internet

Event Overview:
At the speed of light, three dimensional parallel universes and their immersive communities -whether they be virtual worlds of shopping centers, nightclubs or interactive gaming- went from “radical fringe” to mainstream, with multinationals around the world setting up their own islands to be represented in this new part of the internet galaxy. Now the next frontier may be the most complex one to cross yet - mobile platforms. All players in the tech eco-system are setting stakes to offer consumers new options in social interactivity of all forms:

* Companies already entrenched in virtual worlds and interactive gaming, where mobile devicese the next BIG opportunity
* Social networking and community enterprises hoping to add a third dimension to their community and/or “go mobile”
* The enablers and supporters, whether they be investors who fund and help scale these enterprises or technology plays, such as payment systems, operating systems and platforms…

This conference is the first of its kind to listen to all the voices in the eco-system as they discuss what opportunities will be available and what the challenges are to realize this goal, when communities are able to connect, communicate and share content on these mobile devices, how the location-specific abilities and information be integrated, where should we look for emerging markets for web content when it becomes accessible to billions of cell-phone users.

Agenda:
11:45am-12:30pm Registration and Networking Lunch
12:30pm-12:45pm Welcome Remarks
12:45pm-1:15pm

Opening Keynote Speaker:
Anders Nancke-Krogh, Nokia
1:15pm-2:30pm

Panel Discussion: “The Venture Landscape”
Baris Karadogan, Velocity Interactive Group
Nate Redmond, Rustic Canyon
Sharon Wienbar, Scale Venture
Richard Wong, Accel

Moderator: Mike Doran, Fish & Richardson
2:30pm-3:00pm

“The Global Perspective”
Keynote Speaker: Joe Jasin, SKT
3:00pm-3:15pm

Entrepreneur Profile, Virtual Perspective
Martin Dunsby, Vollee
3:15-3:30pm Afternoon Break
3:30-3:45pm

Entrepreneur Profile, Monetizing the mobile Experience:
Steve Livingston, MBlox
3:45pm-5:00pm

Panel Discussion: “Paths for the Future: Success Stories and Learned Lessons”

Paul Anderson, Veepers
Rob Osborn, Gemini Mobile Technologies
Tomasz Wojtowicz, WiFi Army
Mandar Shinde, Smith Micro
Moderator: Ewan MacLeod, SMS Text News

5:00pm-5:15pm Closing Remarks

Price:
Platinum Pass: $25
Members: $65
Non-members: $85

Location:
Tech Mart Center, Fremont Room,
5201 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Directions

Got a heads up from California Condor (in-world SL) that there’s a Metaverse Meetup “Crossroads to the Metaverse” in Hoboken, NJ.
tomorrow Sat. Feb. 23. Organized by Thodore Wright, Andy Fundinger,  and long-time SL’er Hiro Pendragon.

Details at:

http://gamedev.meetup.com/166/calendar/7312910/

Looks like all the details will be posted there.  Hopefully it happens simultaneously in SL.  If so, I’ll be there!

Virtual Worlds Go Mobile is shaping up to be a groundbreaking meetup/mashup of virtual worlds+mobile+open platforms. This is the first convergent meeting where the mobile virtual world space meets up on the same stage as the Android open handset movement and mobile hardware.

Here’s a list of the speakers lined up - it all happens Tue. Feb. 26:

Full Program

Keynote: Anders Nancke-Krogh, Nokia

Panel Discussion: “The Venture Landscape”
Moderator: Mike Doran, Fish & Richardson
Baris Karadogan, Velocity Interactive Group
Nate Redmond, Rustic Canyon
Sharon Wienbar, Scale Venture
Richard Wong, Accel

Keynote : Joe Jasin, SKT “The Global Perspective”

Entrepreneur Profile: Martin Dunsby, Vollee

Entrepreneur Profile,: Steve Livingston, MBlox

Panel Discussion: “Paths for the Future: Success Stories and Learned Lessons”
Moderator: Ewan MacLeod, SMS Text News
Paul Anderson, Veepers
Rob Osborn, Gemini Mobile Technologies
Tomasz Wojtowicz, WiFi Army
Mandar Shinde, Smith Micro

Register Here

Demo tables still available please contact Bob Ketner at 415-267-3933 for more info.

Hi Virtual Worlders,

We’re pulling together this afternoon conference to advance the discussion on virtual worlds - how and when they will “go mobile”.
It’s lining up to be an interesting mix of vc, Android, gaming, and hardware takes on the topic - not to be missed, details how to attend below.

“This conference is the first of its kind to listen to all the voices in the eco-system as they discuss what opportunities will be available and what the challenges are to realize this goal, when communities are able to connect, communicate and share content on these mobile devices, how the location-specific abilities and information be integrated, where should we look for emerging markets for web content when it becomes accessible to billions of cell-phone users.”
Keynote Speakers:
Joe Jasin, SKT, and Anders Nancke-Krogh, Nokia
Panelists:
Paul Anderson, Veepers
Martin Dunsby, Vollee
Baris Karadogan, Velocity Interactive
Steve Livingston, MBlox
Rob Osborn, Gemini Mobile Technologies
Nate Redmond, Rustic Canyon
Sharon Wienbar, Scale Venture
Tomasz Wojtowicz, WiFi Army
Rich Wong, Accel
Event Overview:

At the speed of light, three dimensional paralle universes and their immersive communities -whether they be virtual worlds of shopping centers, nightclubs or  interactive gaming- went from “radical fringe” to mainstream, with multinationals around the world setting up their own islands to be represented in this new part of the internet galaxy. Now the next frontier may be the most complex one to cross yet - mobile platforms.  All players in the tech eco-system are setting stakes to  offer consumers new options in social interactivity of all forms:

* Companies already entrenched in virtual worlds and interactive gaming, where mobile devicese the next BIG opportunity
* Social networking and community enterprises hoping to add a third dimension to their community and/or “go mobile”
* The enablers and supporters, whether they be investors who fund and help scale these enterprises or technology plays, such as payment systems, operating  systems and platforms…

This conference is the first of its kind to listen to all the voices in the eco-system as they discuss what opportunities will be available and what the challenges are  to realize this goal, when communities are able to connect, communicate and share content on these mobile devices, how the location-specific abilities and  information be integrated, where should we look for emerging markets for web content when it becomes accessible to billions of cell-phone users.

Agenda:
12:00pm-12:45pm              Registration and Networking
Lunch
12:45pm-1:00pm     Welcome Remarks
1:00pm-1:30pm
Opening Keynote Speaker:

Anders Nancke-Krogh, Nokia
1:30pm-2:00pm

“The Global Perspective”
Keynote Speaker: Joe Jasin, SKT
2:15pm-3:15pm

Panel Discussion: “The Venture Landscape”

Baris Karadogan, Velocity Interactive
Nate Redmond, Rustic Canyon
Sharon Wienbar, Scale Venture
Richard Wong, Accel

3:15pm-3:45pm     Keynote TBC
3:45pm-4:45pm

Panel Discussion: “Paths for the Future: Success
Stories and Learned Lessons”

Paul Anderson, Veepers
Martin Dunsby, Vollee
Steve Livingston, MBlox
Tomasz Wojtowicz, WiFi Army
Speaker TBD, Smith Micro
Rob Osborn, Gemini Mobile Technologies
Register