Back in London for the second year; VWF08 is three days of congress, expo and optional workshops, brought by the regular Virtual Worlds Salon hosts. VWF08 is the place to make serious business connections, be inspired by three streams of content, participated in the extended expo and demo theatre. For more information please visit: http://virtualworldsforum.com/
The blog is a journal and document regarding the online and treadmill powered reenactment of Mahatma Gandhi’s “Salt March to Dandi” in Second Life from March 12th through April 6th, 2008. Joseph DeLappe will be using his blog on a daily basis to document his progress and experience as the project evolves over the 26 days of “walking” throughout Second Life.
http://saltmarchsecondlife.wordpress.com/
* WHERE: Annenberg Auditorium, Stanford University
* WHEN: Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th of February 2008
Stanford Humanities Lab (SHL) is thrilled to announce the Metaverse U conference at Stanford University. This two day conference will be held on February 16th and 17th 2008 and feature speakers from a range of disciplines spanning industry and academia. Our lab has worked in virtual worlds for some years now and have seen interest in the space grow exponentially in recent years. We believe that the time has come for an event to tell the interesting stories from the evolving metaverse. The current generation of spaces is part of a larger historical picture and many lessons have been learned over the years. Our ultimate goal with Metaverse U is to create a broad conversation about the pressing question of what the metaverse should be. Metaverse U’s growing list of speakers includes Raph Koster (Metaplace), Brewster Kahle (The Internet Archive), Jeremy Bailenson (Stanford University), TL Taylor (The IT University of Copenhagen), Tony Parisi (Media Machines & Web3D), Jon Brouchoud (Wikitecture), Wm. LeRoy Heinrichs (Stanford Medical Center), Rebecca Moore (Google Earth), Parvati Dev (Innovation in Learning), Kari Kraus (University of Maryland), Cory Ondrejka, Christain Renaud (Cisco), Mike Liebhold (Institute for the Future)
For more information please visit: http://metaverseu.stanford.edu
“Inside a virtual replica of the world-famous Globe Theatre, a professional theatre troupe called the SL Shakespeare Company is getting ready to bring the work of the bard to life – Second Life.” Click here for more information about the SL version of Hamlet.
22 November 2007 - 5.15 - 8.30pm
Bloodspell is the world’s first feature-length machinima, and it is licensed under a Creative Commons a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Bloodspell is a Fantasy story “of a world where men and women carry magic in their blood, and spilling it can unleash terrible power.” This event is organised by the London Metropolitan Business School and the Open Rights Group (special thanks to Michael Holloway and Fernando Barrio for putting the event together). For those new to the topic, “machinima”, in very basic form, involves the use of software that has been designed to create video-games to produce films with their own script and narrative. The word machinima was coined some time ago by Hugh Hancock, who also wrote and directed Bloodspell. The evening will start with Hugh Hancock introducing the concept of machinima and the movie, to be followed by a viewing of Bloodspell.
After the viewing a panel will address the issues raised by the film to then open the floor for discussion.
Venue: London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre 166-220 Holloway Road London, N7 8DB
The Metaverse Summit 2007 will be held at the Estrel Convention Center in Berlin, Germany, on December 06 - 07, 2007, and will include
For more information please visit: http://www.metaversesummit.com/