OpenSimulator Community Conference 2014

Streaming Link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oscc1

Although women make up a substantial portion of virtual reality users, enthusiasts, developers, and content creators, they are often underrepresented in positions of power in the industry, and face a variety of barriers, misconceptions, and discrimination in virtual environments that both mirror and differ from similar challenges in the "real" world. This panel will discuss the critical importance of diversity and inclusiveness in the emerging metaverse, and specifically address strategies to advance and encourage women's contribution in the field.

Streaming Link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oscc1

3DICC's Terf platform is a enterprise-oriented virtual world platform with support for the Oculus Rift. It is one of the leading enterprise-focused virtual world platforms. Julie LeMoine, the CEO, will talk about how enterprises buy immersive platforms. What feaatures and services are they most interested in? What industries are on the leading edge of adoption? Where does she see growth as coming in the near future?

Streaming Link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oscc1

Last year, Avination and Singularity developed a new "export" permission for OpenSim with support both on the server side, and in modern viewers. Meanwhile, Kitely rolled out their own, parallel, export permission system based on a combination of Kitely Market settings and existing perms. Now, both systems are in play, with InWorldz and other grids testing out the Avination/Singularity system, and Kitely using their own system to enable market deliveries to other grids as well as OAR region downloads. Panelists will discuss how to implement export permissions, how well they work, and what's still to be done. They will also debate the merits of the two current approaches, and whether content creators should be using DRM at all.

Streaming Link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oscc1

Kitely Market is an advanced, feature-rich virtual goods marketplace which delivers to all Hypergrid-enabled OpenSimulator grids as well as some closed grids. It creates a unified market that enables content creators and avatars from across the metaverse to transact using real money, without requiring content creators to maintain a duplicate presence on each grid. The presentation will begin with a quick overview of existing features followed by a short progress report and discussion of some of the lessons learned during Kitely Market's first year in business. The presentation will conclude with a Q&A session.

Streaming Link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oscc1

Maria will provide an update about OpenSimulator growth numbers, with the latest statistics about the grids, the hypergrid, marketplaces, and other OpenSim-related data points.

Streaming Link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oscc1

4Dialog is responsible for a series of city development projects in the USA and Sweden based on OpenSim with added functionality by Encitra and 4Dialog. In these projects there is extensive use of real time planning, charettes, Oculus Rift and public outreach at citizen days etc. The rapidly growing interest in these possibilities has produced challenges and opportunities for fast and accurate modeling and a strong need for interactive and democratic survey tools.

Streaming Link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oscc1

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?