bob ketner

Join us in Second Life at: Innovation Island (this link will start the Second Life program)
You can view the SIG presentations with the embedded viewer.  Video will be active during the presentation.
If not working please try: http://ustream.tv/channel/virtual-world-sig

I’ll be presenting at NASA Ames in Mountain View on Jan. 27, 2008.
Here’s the link http://amesevents.arc.nasa.gov/virtual-worlds/

My talk is called “Shrinking Space: Designs for Augmented Exploration” and will focus on emerging technologies and how they will interface with and become part of - virtual worlds. The whole event may be streamed into SL at a NASA sim like CoLab or Spaceport Alpha - I’m not sure which one.

I will try to logon from there though if bandwidth allows. Major kudos to Bruce Damer who pulled this event together and roped me in to help.

Be there or be virtual!

Hello Metaversals.
This weekend kicks off three straight days of metaverse chat -

NASA Jan. 26 Virtual Worlds conference Day 1 with Will Wright and Virtual World SIG Co-chair Corey Bridges of Multiverse.
Corey will present a talk on Jan. 26 called “Exploring the Metaverse”.

NASA Jan. 27 Virtual Worlds conference Day 2 with Virtual World SIG Co-chair Bob Ketner of Studio SFO.
Bob will present a talk on Jan. 27 called “Shrinking Space” Designs for Augmented Exploration”.

More at: http://amesevents.arc.nasa.gov/virtual-worlds/

Virtual World SIG Jan. 28 7pm PST  -Gemini Mobile presenting on “3D Mobile Communities“.
This is a dual event with the Virtual World SIG and the Mobile Internet SIG.

Be there or be virtual!

That’s right the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers … aka. IEEE have given a nod (or award?) to SIG presenter Forterra Systems.

They were noticed as “one of the five best technologies for 2008″.  Their staff local to Palo Alto, CA have been big supporters of the Virtual World SIG and they have some fantastic virtual world tech.  Their presentation from June 2007 at the SIG really showed what “serious games” can mean.

It’s breaking news relayed from Virtual Worlds News.com 

Congrats, Forterra staff on the recognition of your work.

- Bob Ketner

Milk crate + PC + wii = 3D spaces

This is what it means: Paul Otellini for Intel at CES 2008

The shape of virtual worlds to come will be shown January 28, 2008 at our Virtual World SIG!  Of course,  you have come to expect as much.

I wish I could say more at this time, but suffice to say the virtual worlds to come will not be like dear ol’ dad’s virtual worlds.

Save the date - it will be worth it. More details forthcoming.

-Bob Ketner

Join us in Second Life at: Innovation Island (this link will start the Second Life program)
You can view the SIG presentations with the embedded viewer.
If not working please try: http://ustream.tv/channel/virtual-world-sig

 Hello Virtual Worlders and welcome to the newly upgraded Virtual World SIG website.

Just announced - the presenter for the Aug. 27 SIG!

 Title:

Synthetic Currency - Real Work:  Using a Virtual Economy to Solve the Problem of Information Overload

 Abstract

Complex multiplayer games foreshadow new possibilities for the future of work.  An increasingly large portion of game play is collaborative and strategic, and it requires sustained interactions with several players.  The engagement of games and the lessons they foster may influence a new gamer generation to expect real work that better resembles the structure of complex play.

This talk will review the recipe for successful games, the convergence of games and the future of work, and describe a new software application that tackles the problem of information overload in corporate email using psychological and economic principles from successful virtual worlds.  The application (produced by Seriosity, Inc. and called Attent) creates a synthetic economy with a currency that enables users to attach value to outgoing email to signal importance.  It gives recipients the ability to prioritize messages and a reserve of currency that they can use to signal importance of their messages to others.  The software also provides a variety of tools and rewards that enable everyone to track and analyze communication patterns and information exchanges in the enterprise.  

The lively marketplace that emerges from the attention economy offers new insights into collaboration, productivity and leadership.

Bios

Byron Reeves, Ph.D. is a Professor at Stanford University and Faculty Director of the Stanford Media X Partners Program.  He is a leading expert on the psychology of interactive media, including complex multi-player games, and is co-author of The Media Equation. Dr. Reeves has worked at Microsoft Research on consumer and enterprise software, and has helped design software products for several large companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, and Schwab.  He is a Co- Founder and board member at Seriosity.

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