{"id":4398,"date":"2014-11-13T23:16:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T23:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4398"},"modified":"2014-11-13T23:20:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T23:20:49","slug":"philip-rosedale-set-to-talk-about-high-fidelity-at-gigaom-roadmap-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4398","title":{"rendered":"Philip Rosedale Set To Talk About High Fidelity At Gigaom Roadmap 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tis the season to be a speaker it seems. Last weekend’s events aren’t the end of the event season by any stretch of the imagination and\u00a0Gigaom are talking up their Gigaom Roadmap 2014 event<\/a>, scheduled for November 17th – November 19th. There are a couple of posts about this event and I’ll highlight this one first : At Roadmap, Delve Into Virtual World Design With Philip Rosedale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article doesn’t give too much away about what Philip may say, which is fair enough, otherwise why would people go and listen to Philip speak? However the article does start off on a controversial footing for those who are still very much engaged in Second Life :<\/p>\n

When Second Life launched in 2003, it was the future. Now it is the past, with its once-hyped virtual storefronts and social centers empty (or nearly empty, as 1 million people still log on each month).<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible that it came 10 years too early.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve blogged recently about how some designers are finding those once-hyed virtual storefronts getting a new lease of life due to the number of virtual events. There’s something uncanny about that as I’m blogging here about the number of events outside the virtual world, although many of them are designed to talk about virtual worlds and peripherals. Hmm, this could get quite circular! Anyway, I don’t agree with Signe Brewster’s premise regarding where Second Life is today. Second Life is in a much stronger position than outsiders realise, although it’s certainly not at the peak of its popularity.<\/p>\n

Philip Rosedale of course has moved on from Second Life and will be talking about his new venture, High Fidelity<\/a>. I would imagine he may well cover some of the ground he discussed at the OpenSim Community Conference. Philip spoke well on a number of High Fidelity, OpenSim and Second Life related issues as a keynote speaker at the OpenSim Community Conference and hopefully an official video of that speech will be released soon. There were some technical difficulties with sound, but it’s a speech well worth listening to and involved a very interesting Q&A session too.<\/p>\n

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There’s another article on Gigaom about this event too :\u00a010 Things I Can’t Wait To See At Roadmap 2014<\/a>. This is a good article because it gives you more of an idea of who else will be speaking at Gigaom Roadmap 2014. Now the author of that article, Katie Fehrenbacher, is very much looking forward to hearing Philip Rosedale speak, she even dubs Philip, “The\u00a0godfather of virtual reality<\/em>“. I’m not sure how Mr Rosedale will feel about that.<\/p>\n

Next-gen UIs<\/strong>: One of the big themes of Roadmap this year is the future of the computing interface, whether that\u2019s with audio, virtual reality, touch, wearables, or robotics. We\u2019ll have the godfather of virtual reality, Philip Rosedale, discuss designing virtual worlds with Gigaom reporter Signe Brewster; we\u2019ll have an interaction designer who worked on Google Glass, Hayes Raffle, talk about the next-gen wearable interface; we\u2019ll have sound designer Brant Ward inform us on designing the future of the audio interface, and we\u2019ll have the production designer for the movie Her, KK Barrett, show us how he created the futuristic look and feel of the movie where an OS and a human fell in love.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another interesting area of discussion for me at Gigaom Roadmap 2014 is to do with something I’m very much a fan of, storytelling :<\/p>\n

Designing storytelling<\/strong>: Media, content creation and the ways that digital stories are being told are evolving, and new visual, audio, and interactive mediums are driving that change. Evan Willams, the co-founder of Medium and Twitter, will discuss why design is so important for storytelling and narrative, and designer and writer Craig Mod will show us how storytelling is evolving and using design to delight.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This again looks like another interesting event, although again it needs to be pointed out that unlike the OpenSim Communnity Conference, there will be no virtual world streaming of this event. Maybe in a few years time.<\/p>\n

One of the major challenges with all these events is keeping up with what’s being discussed, there’s a lot of discussion going on, the real question of course is whether the potential will be realised. That’s something that won’t be answered for many a year yet.<\/p>\n

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