[tt] [croquet-user] Intel CTO lays out VirtWorld strategy

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Jeremy Kemp <jeremykemp at yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:25:57 -0700 (PDT)
To: croquet-user at duke.edu
Subject: [croquet-user] Intel CTO lays out VirtWorld strategy
Reply-To: croquet-user at duke.edu, Jeremy Kemp <jeremykemp at yahoo.com>

Hello,

I spent a few hours boiling down Intel CTO Justin
Rattner's keynote yesterday at their developer forum.
"Virtual Worlds – The Rise of the 3D Internet"

Notes and screenshots here:
http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=RattnerIDF

It is fascinating to see how a mega-tech looks at this
as an opportunity to sell more product. (Duh) And
ironic that it embraces and disses Second Life in the
same breath. 

Key watchwords are "interoperability" and "open
standard" and Croquet gets some solid airtime. Or
rather its commercial cousin QWAQ.

Intel underlines that SL is NOT the next 3D web, but
only grumbles about fidelity and openness to back its
case. Ignoring the fact that this platform is the 90%
player behind the metaverse blowup in the last two
years?

So how will Linden tackle this problem of sitting on
terrabytes of user-created content with a resident
dollar value attached to each object? "Make it open"
can ONLY apply to their platform but the TRUE value is
the content (ie. community).

Open WHILE an asset...
interoperable WHILE being venture funded...

--J

- Jeremy Kemp, M.Ed., M.S.J.
Assistant Director, SL Campus
SJSU School of Library & Information Science
(408) 393-5270 Cell, (408) 924-2466 Office
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