Dr. Dobbs Life 2.0 Summit
I’ve been really busy with an as-of-yet-unannounced MV project which I’ll be happy to tell you all about at the end of October, but I did find some time to go to a couple of great events that were part of the Dr. Dobbs Life 2.0 Summit last week. The Life 2.0 Summit once again proved that there is a value to virtual worlds conferences, and both events I went to were well attended across the two-sim build.
The first panel I went to featured some of my favorite griefers libSL developers and was all about the fabulous things you can do with libSL bots. I was surprised that, all teasing aside, many of the audience questions did focus on the use of bots in griefing and traffic gaming. We use them extensively to enhance web-SL communication, extend SL functionality, and generally do a lot of awesome work.
The panel featured libSL lead developer Eddy Stryker/John Hurliman, libSL project manager otakup0pe Newmann/Jonathan Freedman, CMP Metaverse’s John Zhaoying, Baller City’s Dirty McLean, and surprise guest Christian Prior/Westbrook of Wello Horld and the OpenMV project.
I was also thrilled to attend a keynote by Tateru Nino about user engagement and experience in virtual worlds, which featured graphs on satisfaction, friction, and misconception.
Panel transcripts and recordings will be available on the Life2.0 site in the coming weeks. Thanks so much to Dr. Dobbs and sponsors for putting on this great week-long event!