Aug 15 2009
Second Life: The long and short of the road ahead
Today, the third day of SLCC 2009, Philip Rosedale and Mark Kingdon provided the telephoto and wide-angle views of the road ahead for Second Life.
Union Square as seen from SLCC 2009
Philip summarized his message to a backdrop of an abandoned and decrepit Detrioit home thus (as best I heard it)
“TRY and recognize that we are at the very beginning, and together, you guys and us, will have to weather a tremendous changing as we move from where we are today
to where this thing is, this kinematic and imaginary global kind of new digital world.”
Mark had a fine intro where he disclosed a moment of discovering his passion for in-world activity while building
“…it was at that point that I got a second island, and the land addiction began.”
Sessions today included morning Art track’s “Plastic Reality”, running over the start of an enterprise session that I really wanted to hear all of: “Enterprise and Virtual Worlds: The Value Proposition” moderated by Dusan Writer. I stuck around for Schott Homan’s Purdue case study, caught a share of Patio Plasma’s “Building Interactive Science Exhibits, Tools and Techniques”