NMC Campus Observer

November 1: Fashion and Virtual Worlds – Innovations in Global Collaboration

Metanomics : Nov 1, 2010 10:30am

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What does the future of distance collaboration look like? How can immersive technology help enterprise to prototype products and work across boundaries? In this episode of Metanomics, we’ll explore virtual fashion, its cross-over to ‘physical’ fashion, and look at how advances in technology and organizational design are changing the ways we work and collaborate.

Guest host Dusan Writer welcomes Shenlei Winkler, CEO of the Fashion Research Institute:

The Fashion Research Institute (FRI) develops products and systems for the fashion industry that sweepingly address traditionally wasteful, environmentally unsound and unsafe business and production methods.

Using web 3.0 and virtual worlds to solve real world issues FRI has developed new technology infrastructures using web 3.0 and virtual worlds, that will reduce related fashion industry production landfill wastes and by-products to up to 1/3 over traditional fashion production methods.

Our goal is to research and develop bio-renewable, sustainable, multi-channel production pipelines for the fashion industry, which will change the way the industry handles raw materials, processed materials, product design methodology, and product tracking technology.

In addition, FRI is currently developing a method to distribute digital assets generated from its unique virtual world design application, Black Dress Design Studio. The Fashionable Grid™ enables designers of both apparel and avatar apparel to develop new revenue streams through this service.

We’ll explore virtual fashion, OpenSim, intellectual property rights, and the nature of global collaboration.

Join us on Monday November 1st at 12 p.m. PT.

You can join in through our main stage in Second Life, or watch a live video stream of the event on this page.

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