SIGGRAPH 09 MultiUser Virtual Environments Meeting: MUVE MOOT

SIGGRAPH 09 MultiUser Virtual Environments Meeting: MUVE MOOT (http://www.muvemoot.com)

Confirmed speakers:

Chris Collins, our General Manager of Enterprise, Linden Lab.
An Update on Second Life.

Steve Guynup, Doctor of Design & Communication, Lecturer in Game Design, Art Institute of Pittsburgh; and Dr. Warren Wake is the Chair of Game Art and Design and Web Design and Interactive Media at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. The Magic Classroom (supported by Mauricio Ferrazza)

Paul Aslin, presentation via skype?

Peter Schickel, Founder of Bitmanagement Software GmbH.

Lauren Gauthier, CEO of 3D Net Productions. Virtual Relationships and Trust

Doug Twilleager, Wonderland group, Sun Microsystems, An Update on Project Wonderland.

Mick Brady, Professor Emeritus, Russell Sage College, The adventures of a virtual artist, Chrome Underwood.

Don Brutzman, Head of Naval Postgraduate School
An update on X3D
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Location: New Orleans, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Room: 287
Date(s): Wednesday 5th August
Reservation Time(s): setup time at 12noon, teardown until 2:45pm
Meeting Time(s): 12:30-2:30pm
Room Setup: classroom style with seating for up to 84.
link: http://www.siggraph.org/s2009/community/birds/index.php

The growth in virtual worlds, social networks and online games heralds a global change to a new experience in entertainment, education, commerce or social networking. Meet to explore how the virtual phenomenon is changing the way people interact, think and feel in their daily activities. The theme for this meeting is: How do Virtual worlds affect hearts and minds?

Last year's meeting is documented at http://muvemoot.com/MUVEMOOT08/html/MUVEMoot08Report.html
, more information at: http://muvemoot.com/
Anyone who plans to attend please email me (dragonmagi@gmail.com) so I can get some idea of numbers. Please also say if you have something to present and what you would like to see on the
agenda for discussion.

Agenda:

1. Introductions: One paragraph summary provided by the speakers will be used to introduce each at the start of the meeting.
2. Demos/presentations: Each speaker presents and demonstrates (5-10 minutes each).
3. Panel Discussion: Speakers form a panel for the audience to ask questions.


About the Organiser:

Chris Thorne is Managing Director of VRShed Pty Ltd (http://www.vrshed.com), developers of visualisation / simulation content. Chris is interested in the confluence of simulation and social networking. He currently works with Second Life, Google Earth/Maps and Web 3D technologies. Chris has over 25 years experience in 3D graphics industry and academia. His research is about improving quality, fidelity, scalability, accuracy in simulation (http://www.floatingorigin.com).


About SIGGRAPH:
SIGGRAPH is the worlds largest yearly interactive computer graphics conference. For more information see: http://www.siggraph.org/about

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Comment by Angelina Macedo on July 5, 2009 at 7:23pm

Hi,
I would like to attend the conference as it seems very interesting but it is very far away for me:-(
Any chance that any presentation will be in Second Life?