Life2.0 - Monday, 17th March

Today's (rather late) lineup for Life2.0

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9:00 AM PDT - 10:00 AM PDT
KEYNOTE: 3DV AND THE FUTURE OF IMMERSION
Mitch Kapor, Chairman, Linden Research - SL:MitchK Linden
Deeper, more satisfying immersion hangs fire on the emergence of a new generation of interfaces, which harness gesture both to project identity and assist communication, and to enable simpler, more vivid means of interacting with objects and people. Continuing the thread begun at Davos and Metaverse U., at Stanford, Mr. Kapor will describe and chart the implications of one such device, nearing introduction.

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10:00 AM PDT - 11:00 AM PDT
CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
Susan Wu, Principal, Charles River Ventures

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11:00 AM PDT - 12:00 PM PDT
METANOMICS @ LIFE 2.0: NICK YEE
Nick Yee, PhD, Research Scientist, PARC; Robert Bloomfield, Professor, Johnson School of Management, Cornell - SL:-, Beyers Sellers
Prof. Bloomfield will interview Nick Yee on current research, including implications of the Deadalus project, work at Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and with Xerox' PlayOn group. In addition to Life 2.0 realtime video on life20.net, this session will be broadcast via SLCN.TV

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12:00 PM PDT - 1:00 PM PDT
SHOW-FLOOR OPEN!
Spend the luncheon hour with our sponsors, Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems!

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1:00 PM PDT - 2:00 PM PDT
MULTIVERSE: UNDER THE HOOD
Rafael Cedeno, CTO and co-founder, Multiverse; Corey Bridges, co-founder and Executive Producer, Multiverse - SL:Raf Dawg;Corey Dawg
The makers of the Multiverse platform dive deep to show how their platform works, and explain why it can perform at scales of up to 2,000 avatars on a single server, presenting rich 3D environments such as their recently-released Virtual Times Square demo, and supporting hundreds of current development projects by teams of all sizes.

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2:00 PM PDT - 3:00 PM PDT
DATA VISUALIZATION IN SECOND LIFE
Melanie Swan (SL: Xantha Oe) - Futurist, MS Futures Group; Michel Gallant (SL: Stormbringer Blackflag), Technical Lead, Pleiades Consulting; Eric Hackathorn (SL: Hackshaven Harford), IT Specialist, NOAA; Ben Lindquist (SL: Arkowitz Johnson), CEO, GreenPhosphor, LLC; SL: Eloise Pasteur, Second Life Dataviz Developer; Gus Rosania (SL: Caia Alter), Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan
So far virtual worlds have been used mainly for architectural builds and interaction. The next obvious step is making them alive with data, streaming in data and representing it visually. Data visualization in Second Life is growing rapidly: open-source building-block tools are being made available to the community and developers and end-users are creating enterprise and science applications. There is a dataviz wiki and a "Data Visualization" group in Second Life. This panel will provide a live demo of dataviz tools and discuss the challenges and techniques for bringing data into Second Life and turning it into useful representations.
This panel will show some of the most exciting work now being done by private companies, government agencies and independent developers in data visualization: projects as diverse as 3D graphing, realtime display of weather data and dynamic histogram generation in 3D.

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3:00 PM PDT - 4:00 PM PDT
OPENSIM: NOW AND FUTURE
Tedd Hansen, OpenSim - SL:Tedd Maa
OpenSim began as an independent reverse-engineering of Second Life's server system -- intended as a tool to create SL-compatible open grids. The project has evolved significantly, though, and in recent months, a new grid architecture and other powerful extensions have emerged, and real open grids based on the technology have come into being. Tedd Hansen, a key contributor to the project, will update us on where OpenSim stands, who's working to extend it, and why it may go beyond where even SL envisioned going.

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4:00 PM PDT - 5:00 PM PDT
SHOW FLOOR OPEN!

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5:00 PM PDT - 7:00 PM PDT
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: FOUNDATIONS, NOT-FOR-PROFITS, HUMANITARIAN WORK IN VIRTUAL WORLDS
Sharon Burns (SL: Wrigley Kidd), CIO, MacArthur Foundation; Benjamin Stokes (SL:Benjamin Macfound), Program Officer, MacArthur Foundation
This birds-of-a-feather session, in the amphitheatre, will be a relaxed open discussion on topics such as the role of the foundation in virtual worlds, charitable and humanitarian causes, education, and the vexing question of technology divides between classes and cultures. With us are special guests, Sharon Burns, CIO of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and her colleague Benjamin Stokes, program officer.

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7:00 PM PDT - ? PM PDT
DANCING IN THE SKY
Tuna Oddfellow, Magician
Tuna Oddfellow is one of the hottest multimedia artists and experiential entertainers now working in the metaverse. He's built a huge platform in the sky over CMP's islands, and is waiting to entertain us with a deeply-immersive and mind-bending display of light, music, and ... magic. Landmarks to the venue will be distributed at the amphitheatre.