Chic at Ebbe's Place

Come this November 8th and 9th Philip Rosedale will be speaking a the second annual OpenSimulator Community conference discussing the opportunity of developing an open platform for virtual reality over the Internet. Philip's talk will be entitled, "What is the Metaverse?".

Registration for the virtual OpenSimulator Community Conference is free and opens on September 15, 2014.  The conference will also be livestreamed through UStream.  For more information go to the conference website at http://conference.opensimulator.org

The co speaker will be Dr. Steve LaValle, principal scientist at Oculus VR and professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois.
  
Both Philip and Ebbe are thinking in big terms these days, planing for their platform to be the new, BIG, multi-user grid of the future.  Philip's ideas seem to point toward an entwined global network of users supporting a grid aimed at communication. Philip's grid appears to be more of a gated community with high quality content the star attraction. Both seem to be very much in the Oculus camp.

Each world vision has it selling points, both aim to enhance virtual reality via gear; it will be interesting to see who comes out on top -- and then again, the both might.