Friday, August 29, 2008

Virtual Worlds (SOS) State of Standards London Oct 20,21

I will giving a talk in Virtual Worlds London (Oct 20,21) about the State of Standards. If you have any specific inputs please drop me a line. I guess I will see some of you in the Kick Off meeting earlier but wanted to give you enough time to give me specific input on this field.

Here's the abstract:
Virtual Worlds State of Standards (SOS):
MPEG-V, Metaverse1, Open-SIM and more

With Virtual Worlds development, we will enjoy a constant stream of innovations, creations, services, and products. Things like art, medicine, learning, and shopping will be enhanced by virtual galleries, home treatment clinics, learning kiosks and family owned stores. However, there is one major roadblock to this vision: lack of standards - hence the term SOS. On the Internet, we were able to overcome this block with a well-oiled open system of standards that facilitates innovation and growth. We were unable to overcome this block in the gaming world where major game companies have their own systems. There are several formal, open source, and private initiatives aimed at creating an stadards for virtual worlds. State of Stadnards will review the current efforts in the field, and identify key factors in this work. The talk cover MPEG-V, Metaverse1, Opensim, Croquet, Sun's virtual worlds, Linden's and IBM architecture group.

Meetings Meetings Meetings

Both Jean and Yesha will attend Virtual Worlds 2008 in LA, USA -- Sep 3,4.
Yesha will also attend Second Life Community Conference in Tampa, USA -- Sep 5,6.
Also... closer to Europe... Virtual Worlds London -- Oct 20, 21. See special note about that.

Oct 7, 8: Kick Off for Metaverse1 in Veldhoven, Veldlhoven (near Eindhoven) The Netherlands

We are happy to announce that the official Kick-off meeting will take place in Veldhoven, Veldlhoven (near Eindhoven) The Netherlands Oct 7th and 8th.

You should have received your invitation with hotel details directly from the Metaverse1 office.

(Draft) Agenda of the Metaverse1 Kick-Off workshop

October 7

Ø 09:00 Welcome and Introduction

Ø 09:45 Consortium changes and impact (overview)

Ø 10:30 Break

Ø 11:00 Start of parallel working groups

Ø WG1: Starting the actual work è Operational Work plan

Ø WG2: Consortium changes and impact è Revision of project plan

Ø WG3: Way of Working è Project Handbook

Ø WG4: Advanced status of the standardization efforts è Input to MPEG-V

Ø 12:30 Lunch

Ø 13:30 Parallel working groups (Cont.)

Ø WG1: Starting the actual work è Operational Work plan

Ø WG2: Consortium changes and impact è Revision of project plan

Ø WG3: Way of Working è Project Handbook

Ø WG4: Advanced status of the standardization efforts è Input to MPEG-V

Ø 15:00 Break

Ø 15:30 Feedback from the Parallel working groups (4 * 15’)

Ø 16:30 Alignment discussion (preparation for WG’s in Day 2)

Ø 17:15 Concluding and plan for second day

Ø 17:30 End of first day

Dinner/ Social event

October 8

Ø 09:00 Parallel working groups (Cont. & Implementing Alignment)

Ø WG1: Starting the actual work è Operational Work plan

Ø WG2: Consortium changes and impact è Revision of project plan

Ø WG3: Way of Working è Project Handbook

Ø WG4: Advanced status of the standardization efforts è Input to MPEG-V

Ø 10:30 Break

Ø 11:00 Parallel working groups (Concluding & Finalizing)

Ø WG1: è Operational Work plan

Ø WG2: è Revision of project plan

Ø WG3: è Project Handbook

Ø WG4: è Input to MPEG-V

Ø 12:30 Lunch

Ø 13:30 Feedback from the Parallel working groups (4 * 20’)

Ø WG1: Starting the actual work è Operational Work plan

Ø WG2: Consortium changes and impact è Revision of project plan

Ø WG3: Way of Working è Project Handbook

Ø WG4: Advanced status of the standardization efforts è Input to MPEG-V

Ø 15:00 Break

Ø 15:30 Detailed planning & action plan ‘active work packages’

Ø WP1 (Use case driven requirements & State of the art overview) (30’)

Ø WP4 (Dissemination, Standardization & Exploitation) (10’)

Ø WP5 (Project Management) (10’)

Ø 16:30 Concluding, Wrap-Up and AOB

Ø 17:00 End of second day and kick-off workshop