With Linden Lab working on a new platform, Second Life as we know it today could soon become a shadow of its current self. The days of using Second Life to provide a standard to match -- and to innovate against -- might be coming to an end. Second Life is also a source of a great deal of relevant training material, both in-world and on the Web and, of course, provides a constant flow of new users to OpenSim. Meanwhile, High Fidelity and other platforms will be competing to become the dominant technology of the 3D metaverse. Does OpenSim have what it takes to survive -- and to flourish?
Founder/Administrator of Littlefield Grid and Littlefield Systems, LLC. Walter Balazic is an IT Infrastructure/Network designer for over 30 years,and has been involved in VW's since 2008. USA
David has been involved with virtual worlds since 2009 and has worked with Universities around the country to help develop virtual worlds for education. Currently, he is President of Ventoux Learning Network and is using Opensim as a sound stage and rapid prototyping tool for Instructor-led... Read More →
Thirza Ember organizes the OpenSim travel group, HG Safari, which has been promoting the community spirit by arranging weekly group visits to grids all over the OpenSim Hypergrid for the past 3 1/2 years.
Stephen Gasior is a Biology Instructor at Ball State University, Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts (at Ball State University), and Administrator/Evangelist for REDgrid (Ball State's OpenSimulator campus -- see http://idialabprojects.org/redgrid/). Stephen... Read More →
Maria Korolov covers artificial intelligence for CIO magazine and cybersecurity for CSO online. She has also been the editor of Hypergrid Business since 2009. During her twenty years as a journalist, she's run a business news bureau in Shanghai, covered wars in the former Soviet Union, and wrote about local politics for the Chicago Tribune. But none of that prepared her for covering OpenSimulator, which has been both intensely... Read More →
Kimberly Rufer-Bach (avatar Kim Anubis) is Owner, Designer, and Producer of The Magicians, a top solution provider for Second Life and OpenSimulator. Since 2005 Kim has specialized in working with educators, nonprofits, and government agencies to bring their virtual worlds projects... Read More →
Sunday November 9, 2014 1:30pm - 2:15pm PST
Business Track
