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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

Hi Virtual Worlders:
I’d like to invite you to participate in a survey put together by our friend and associate Eilif Trondsen of SRI Consulting Business Intelligence.  It’s about 15 mins or less to complete and you will get the report and analysis too.

Here’s the link: http://tinyurl. com/yrhzmm

About the survey:
A wide range of applications and uses of virtual worlds (VWs) by consumers and enterprises have emerged in the last couple of years. The objective of this survey is to focus on one broad use category—Collaborati ve Work—and to get your views and perspectives on what role virtual worlds are playing in these kinds of applications today, and what you expect to see in the future.

The survey is a collaborative effort between the following organizations:
• Special Interest Group (SIG) on Virtual Worlds of the Software
Developers Forum (SDF) in Silicon Valley (led by Bob Ketner)
• The Serious Second Life group in Bolder, Colorado (led by Richard Hackathorn)
• Metaverse U at Stanford University (led by Henrik Bennetsen)
• The Virtual-Worlds Consortium for Innovation and Learning of SRIC-BI (led by Eilif Trondsen)

Everyone who participates will receive a report with analysis of the survey results. We may also organize a SDF-SIG meeting on this topic, and in this case we will alert all participants so they can join us in Palo Alto or in Second Life. No personal information collected in this survey will be used for any commercial purposes and your answers will be confidential and will be used only in combination with those of other respondents.
The survey has four more sections and should take about 15 minutes or so to complete.

Join us in Second Life at: Innovation Island (this link will start the Second Life program)
You can view the SIG 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 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.
Corey will present a talk on Jan. 26 called “Exploring the Metaverse”.

NASA Jan. 27 Virtual Worlds conference Day 2 with Virtual World SIG Co-chair Bob Ketner of Studio SFO.
Bob will present a talk on Jan. 27 called “Shrinking Space” Designs for Augmented Exploration”.

More at: http://amesevents.arc.nasa.gov/virtual-worlds/

Virtual World SIG Jan. 28 7pm PST  -Gemini Mobile presenting on “3D Mobile Communities“.
This is a dual event with the Virtual World SIG and the Mobile Internet SIG.

Be there or be virtual!

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.

- Bob Ketner

The shape of virtual worlds to come will be shown January 28, 2008 at our Virtual World SIG!  Of course,  you have come to expect as much.

I wish I could say more at this time, but suffice to say the virtual worlds to come will not be like dear ol’ dad’s virtual worlds.

Save the date - it will be worth it. More details forthcoming.

-Bob Ketner

Join us in Second Life at: Innovation Island (this link will start the Second Life program)
You can view the SIG presentations with the embedded viewer.
If not working please try: http://ustream.tv/channel/virtual-world-sig

 Hello Virtual Worlders and welcome to the newly upgraded Virtual World SIG website.

Just announced - the presenter for the Aug. 27 SIG!

 Title:

Synthetic Currency - Real Work:  Using a Virtual Economy to Solve the Problem of Information Overload

 Abstract

Complex multiplayer games foreshadow new possibilities for the future of work.  An increasingly large portion of game play is collaborative and strategic, and it requires sustained interactions with several players.  The engagement of games and the lessons they foster may influence a new gamer generation to expect real work that better resembles the structure of complex play.

This talk will review the recipe for successful games, the convergence of games and the future of work, and describe a new software application that tackles the problem of information overload in corporate email using psychological and economic principles from successful virtual worlds.  The application (produced by Seriosity, Inc. and called Attent) creates a synthetic economy with a currency that enables users to attach value to outgoing email to signal importance.  It gives recipients the ability to prioritize messages and a reserve of currency that they can use to signal importance of their messages to others.  The software also provides a variety of tools and rewards that enable everyone to track and analyze communication patterns and information exchanges in the enterprise.  

The lively marketplace that emerges from the attention economy offers new insights into collaboration, productivity and leadership.

Bios

Byron Reeves, Ph.D. is a Professor at Stanford University and Faculty Director of the Stanford Media X Partners Program.  He is a leading expert on the psychology of interactive media, including complex multi-player games, and is co-author of The Media Equation. Dr. Reeves has worked at Microsoft Research on consumer and enterprise software, and has helped design software products for several large companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, and Schwab.  He is a Co- Founder and board member at Seriosity.

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