After the Metaverse U conference for the past two days you’d think I was ready to take a rest or maybe get some real work done, but no! Today and tomorrow I’m participating (remotely, via Skype conference call) in a workshop with some of the same people at Stanford. This time, we’re working with the [...]

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During the break I’ve been catching up on email. One of the messages waiting for me was from Erica Driver of Forrester Research, whom I’d met at a previous blended reality event with a different group. She had done a presentation about a research report Forrester had recently published that she worked on. She asked [...]

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I’m at the Metaverse U conference again today, but I’ve been participating in text side chatter in SecondLife instead of blogging about it. We had quite a discussion about the way this event has been presented in world, which I’ll try to summarize later when I have chance to review my chatlog about it. Some [...]

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Here are some links I’ve found to people who are blogging about the Metaverse U conference this weekend. I’ll edit this post to add more as I stumble across them. I met several other people at the conference site in SecondLife who said they are blogging about it, but until I see a post about [...]

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Following a panel discussion that included Cory Ondrejka at the Stanford Metaverse U conference today, I was looking at his blog. Something he said in an entry called Henrik’s Questions made me think about where I was in 1988, with regard to technical developments since then. At that time, I was working for Boeing on [...]

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Paradox just gave out the URL for his Flickr URL about Metaverse U. More pix will be posted as the conference proceeds. Unfortunately, the afternoon session had a lot of streaming video glitches, so it’s a good thing the video will be available on the Web soon. The conference is in its final plenary session [...]

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Someone in the SecondLife audience at the Stanford Metaverse U conference, listening to the presentation by Jon Brouchard about Wikitecture said Jon has blogged about this at http://archsl.wordpress.com. One of the points in Brouchard’s talk was something about people always asking if they can import their content from other 3D worlds into SecondLife. He said, [...]

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I’m just messaging with a friend of mine who is also at the SecondLife version of the Metaverse U conference, Paradox Olbers. He tells me he’s posting pictures of this event on his blog, too. He says he’s going to make a tag there specifically for this event, so if you go there after the [...]

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The Metaverse conference has broken for lunch, and most of the virtual world attendees are “AFK” (away from keyboard), too. So this might be a good moment to catch up with what has been happening on the side during this event. I have to disagree with John Brown’s blog on one point. He said he [...]

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One of the panelists at the Metaverse U conference just mentioned that he doesn’t live in California, so he had to get on an airplane to come to Stanford to talk about virtual worlds, and how hypocritical that is. Good point! Right now the technology is really not quite advanced enough to have really interactive [...]

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