3pointD Off to Collect Virtual Goods in California
I’m off tomorrow for California, where I’ll be moderating a panel at the Virtual Goods Summit being put together by venture capitalist Susan Wu and Google’s Charles Hudson. I’ll also be hanging around Supernova just to see what can be seen. I’m very much looking forward to the summit, especially because, as Susan points out, it’s now clear that “virtual goods represent a real, viable business model and will likely have a huge impact across all of the consumer Internet.” (More thoughts from Giff.) That means not just as part of gaming or even as part of virtual worlds, but most everywhere. I’m not sure what the recording and archiving plans are for the conference, but look for reports from 3pointD, since plenty of excellent speakers will be in attendance who hopefully will have plenty of interesting things to say.
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Hi Mark,
hope to run into you at supernova.
we will have some archiving. still super sekret. squirrels are working on it in the backroom as we speak.
Two questions I’d like to ask the virtual goods panel, if appropriate:
1. How do you think the development of 3D virtual goods will play out in the dialectic of open and closed systems (free information vs. DRM) ?
2. I’d be interested to hear some ideas about the types of “virtual goods” that will arise in augmented reality systems. If we super impose a “mirror world” on the real world, and can see it in the real world, what kind of virtual goods might we expect to see floating around, and how could they be useful to us in the real (augmented) world?
Question #2 is an awesome one, Mason.
I won’t be asking it, though, as I’ve been switched to an even better panel, the virtual economies panel after lunch that features Raph Koster, John Bates from Entropia, Brock Pierce from IGE and Joshua Hong from K2. Fun.
Come to think of it, there’s no reason why I can’t ask it on that panel, is there?
Awsome Mark, I look forward to hearing how it goes!
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