The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference is pleased to confirm that Justin Clark-Casey will be one of our invited keynotes in OSGrid. It is fitting that someone who has been so influential in making open source virtual reality possible, should lead our day with his insights into ways we can better connect to the communities of OpenSimulator.
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2014
Time: 7:00 a.m. SLT (PDT)
Location: OSGrid VWBPE Main Auditorium
Invited Keynote
Connections in an Open Place
Work, play, culture, education – all these are either already primarily online phenomena or will soon become so.
But to bring this movement to its full flowering, I believe that the Internet will need an immersive, general purpose 3D environment where people can explore, connect and create just as they do in the physical world. This is not a game but a place.
I believe that this place will rest on foundations of open standards, open source and anarchic growth and experimentation. Just like the web, it must be possible for anyone to set up their own space but also travel, with their identity and inventory intact, to any other space without the permission or co-operation of any central entity.
In this keynote, I will explore where I think OpenSimulator fits into this vision and why open places are critical for the connections that we need in a global online culture.
Biography
Justin Clark-Casey is a professional consultant and developer of open-source virtual 3D environment software. He has been a core developer on the OpenSimulator project for more than 6 years, responsible for features such as OpenSimulator Archives (OARs) and NPCs, as well as numerous bug fixes, release management and general steering of the project. In this time, he has worked with numerous clients, including Intel Corporation, Sandia National Labs, 3D Avatar School and McMaster University.
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