Ever combined the Web, real life, Second Life, World of Warcraft, Google Earth, Nintendo, Facebook, Moore's Law and the unfolding human experience into a single thought (which, perhaps, you then Twittered over your iPhone)? Working on an art or web or game or virtual world project? Have an avatar? Are an avatar? Think video games can save the world or that the world is already a video game? (Or think that's the worst thing you've ever heard?) Does Snow Crash ring any bells even if you're way too cool to find it fascinating in public? Fans of history and the future who are interested in the march of the web into the world and the world into the web unite! Meeting for dinner, drinks, talks, networking, workshopping, fun, scheming, and events. For people actively working on, researching, or interested in creative, mixed-reality, augmented reality, lifelogging/streaming, social web, video game, virtual world, mapping, simulation, or 3D projects.http://is.gd/1KpTg
Metaverse Meetup: OpenSim & Virtual Worlds Interoperability 7.23.08 IBM and Linden Labs recently announced a historic breakthrough in virtual worlds: "...research teams from the two companies successfully teleported avatars from the Second Life Preview Grid into a virtual world running on an OpenSim server, marking the first time an avatar has moved from one virtual world to another". The topic for this Metaverse Meetup was OpenSim and virtual worlds interoperability and we were very fortunate...