University of Arkansas Announces Extensible Virtual Worlds Workshop
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Dec 7, 2009 10:35pm
On March 29-April 2, 2010, the University of Arkansas is offering a virtual workshop on Extensible Virtual Worlds. While it will take place within Second Life, the workshop is aiming broader to Virtual World platforms.
Today’s virtual worlds are mostly stand alone and not easily extended. This workshop will explore component technologies that can be leveraged to make a set of extensible virtual worlds. These extensible virtual worlds will need to be secure, easy to build, easy to create applications for, and easy to integrate with the physical world and with enterprise IT systems. Several technologies are poised to contribute including gaming, geographic information systems, Web technologies, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, cloud computing, service oriented architectures and others.
This workshop aims to bring together knowledgeable international researchers and virtual world developers from areas that can contribute to accelerating our understanding of 3D virtual world architectures aimed at understanding the kinds of extensible 3D virtual world platforms that will be needed in the next five years to construct a rich variety of applications that 3D virtual worlds can make possible.
Organized in collaboration with well respected virtual world developers from IBM, this workshop has an interesting format —
as a series of small group thematic discussions in Second Life at various SLURL venues to be announced (avatar registration required). Each small group discussion will focus on a theme and will last around 3 hours. A moderator will ask the group a set of questions (available beforehand) and a scribe (volunteer from the group) will record the meeting and summarize the discussion in a 2-3 page brief that will be posted on the workshop homepage soon after that discussion.
So it looks like to register, one needs only be willing to share by contributing a paper.
For more information, see the conference site http://vw.ddns.uark.edu/X10/ and see the contacts page if you have any questions.
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1. Cristianmazz » Exte&hellip | January 6th, 2010 at 9:42 am
[...] Anche se un pò in anticipo vi segnalo che dal 29 Marzo al 2 Aprile 2010 l’Università di Arkansas in collaborazione con IBM, terrà un workshop Inworld (dentro SL): si eploreranno applicazioni cercando il modo più facile e semplice di interagire (integrando) questi strumenti in uno scenario di sviluppo pratico e reale. Una buona occasione per capire gli sviluppi più prossimi e soprattutto quello dell’universo 3D virtuale ma l’approccio sarà ancora più interessante capendo il link con le varie tecnologie di gaming, geographic information systems, Web technologies, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, cloud computing, service oriented architectures: University of Arkansas Announces Extensible Virtual Worlds Workshop, [...]
2. High Definition Content | January 29th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
This is an awesome idea.
What about social networks in a virtual 3d online world?
That would be a thought.
3. XeroX | February 19th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Elbistan
What about social networks in a virtual 3d online world?
That would be a thought.
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