Follow the Metaverse Roadmap to EyeBeam
The Acceleration Studies Foundation is wrapping up its work on a first version of the Metaverse Roadmap, a document designed to look ahead at the next 10 years of the metaverse, and to be updated along the way. (I participated in the meetings that gathered thoughts for the Roadmap back in May.) To celebrate, the ASF is holding a pre-release party at EyeBeam in New York City on Thursday, August 10. The party is free and open to all, but space is limited, so RSVP on Jerry Paffendorf’s Sheep blog to reserve your ticket.
EyeBeam, of course, is the cool hacker’s collective (actually, it “engages cultural dialogue at the intersection of the arts and sciences,” but we know what they’re really up to over there) that produced the OpenGL Extractor, which let’s you export stuff from virtual worlds like World of Warcraft and Second Life, and even 3D-print your avatar — and which has caused a lot of agita among some SL residents concerned about its use as an IP-stealing device. Mike Frumin, who helps run the place, has been a great friend of various metaversal initiatives, and was kind enough to help Jerry secure the space for the party.
I’ll definitely be there — which is good, since part of the event involves an on-stage conversation between me and Prokofy Neva, who’s consistently been one of the most outspoken monitors of the metaverse, and who brings a unique and important viewpoint to the development of Second Life culture, technology and society. Let me know if there are any topics you’d like to see discussed during the event and I’ll see if I can get them in. See you there.
Feeds
Hi Jerry, great job with the Summit and Roadmap. We should talk sometime as the Contact Consortium is engaged in a “10 year retrospecitve”, a digitizing and written project to tell the story of the first ten years of the Metaverse (1994 onwards) with the first generation platforms and the first events/innovations done by avatar citizens within them. We should perhaps join forces and connect this work in with your Roadmap. Many of the innovations done today in SL and other platforms have been done much earlier (and one might argue with some interesting twists) in platforms such as Active Worlds). I think that any Roadmap for this medium needs to incorporate the full development from its start. Happy to work with you on this!
Bruce