Virtual Worlds 2007 Slides

Per request, here is a copy of my slides from the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference in both pdf and flash format. The flash shows the builds on the slides, however loses the builds between slides (which was kinda important). The pdf is.....well......pdf. Meat and potatoes.

Please let me know if you have any difficulty accessing.

Comments

[Prokofy Neva]

I felt this was a very impressive presentation, Christian, and I hope to get the PDF at least working or perhaps a video will be up eventually.

I've been listening to geeks and game-gods and fanboyz and such now for about, oh, 7 years or so about these worlds, from The Sims Online to Second Life. And I've never heard a business person speak about them, and with such clarity and vision. I really felt relieved, somehow, and yet, concerned that we are in for some virtual globalization that will homogenize some of the wild beauty of the early virtual games and worlds.

[Christian]

Prokofy,

Please let me know if the SWF file doesnt work for you. I had a colleague open it ok in Internet Explorer, and I know that Safari opens them fine on my Macs. That works much better than the pdf.

I appreciate your feedback on my keynote, and I share your concern on virtual globalization and homogenization. My reference during the keynote was to the Interop conference in San Francisco in 89/90 when the market was tiny and we were trying to make SNMP work. It was a fun time of black magic and demigods that we all knew wouldn't last forever. Now N+I (Networld + Interop) conference in Las Vegas is like the Consumer Electronics Show or CEBit in Europe, gigantic. With that degree of mainstream adoption (and it's resultant homogenization) we lost the intimacy of the early years, but the societal benefits have been much more widespread.

I suspect that if we are able to overcome some of our growing pains, we'll be in the same situation this time. It will become more popular, which will benefit a broader group of participants but at the dilution of many of the unique aspects attributable to it's current small size.

[Bret Treasure]

Completely unintelligible to non-attendees.