29-31 oct.: blender conference 2010 live on 2d + 3d web

Please ADD or CORRECT info! – Blogpost updated 2010.10.30 08:37 CEST — shortlink http://wp.me/p9f2i-ix

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Just like in 2009, the 9th annual Blender Conference, a 3D software Developers & Users Event in Amsterdam, will be streamed live online on the web and screened in the virtual world Second Life.

October 29-30-31, 2010

Blender is a free and open-source software program for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering. For graphic designs, movies,  games and other visual arts. Also for importing 3-D objects into virtual worlds such as Second Life and OpenSim.

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Conference info:

• http://blender.org/community/blender-conference

Schedule:

• http://blender.org/community/blender-conference/schedule

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Attend online at the Caledon Oxbridge University in SL:
http://paderdesign.de/secondlife/blender-conference-2010

• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Oxbridge/76/141/29 – Lecture Hall

The Blender Conference moves from the Lecture Hall to the Sandbox in the evenings and nights:

• http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Oxbridge/66/159/1501 – Sandbox

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Live Streams: (De Balie main theatre only)

http://www.debalie.nl/live

• http://live.engagetv.com/debalie.php – Flash video
• http://blender.org/community/blender-conference/engage-tv-flash – Flash video (high bandwith 720 x 404 pixels)
  
• http://blender.org/community/blender-conference/engage-tv-flash-small – Flash video – (low bandwith 480 x 270 pixels)
• http://www.blender.org/community/blender-conference/engage-tv-html5 – Html5 browsers video (iPhone, iPad, etc)
• rtsp://darwin02.engagetv.com/debalie.sdp – H.264/Mpeg4 video (copy/paste in Quicktime, RealPlayer, VLC player or others)
• http://live.nu/1.pls – Mp3 audio
• http://live.nu/1.m3u – Mp3 audio
• http://82.94.213.7:8000/live.nu-1 – Mp3 audio (also for SL parcels)

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Video-on-Demand / Replay:

• Repeats on the live streams of earlier recorded video when there is no live feed.
• Video files available after a few weeks or so.

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IRC Chat Channels:
http://blender.org/community/chat

http://webchat.freenode.net – irc://irc.freenode.net

• #blender
• #blenderchat
• #blenderconference

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Event pages:

• http://facebook.com/event.php?eid=165195463505056
• http://flickr.com/groups/blender2010

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Tweets:

• Hashtag #blenconf2010 – http://twitter.com/search/blenconf2010
• Hashtag #blender3d – http://twitter.com/search/blender3d
  
• The #Blender3D Daily – http://paper.li/tag/blender3d
• Hashtag #blender – http://twitter.com/search/%23blender
  
• The #blender Daily – http://paper.li/tag/blender
• http://is.gd/gseWL (tweetgrid)
• http://tweetgrid.com/grid?l=8&q1=blenconf2010&q2=blender3d&q3=blender+conference&q4=%23blender&q5=%23opensource&q6=blenderconference&q7=%23SL&q8=SecondLife&q9=opensim

Apex Aeterna 1 by Maygray, created with Blender, imported in SL.

Second Life recently introduced 3D meshing (Beta). Some examples of pioneers using Blender to import 3D creations into SL:

http://flickr.com/groups/secondlife3dmesh

Other Blender user images:

http://flickr.com/groups/772503@N23

http://flickr.com/groups/blender

24 april: ARflashmob by SNDRV

short URL: http://wp.me/s9f2i-ar

Bring you own Virtual Human statue to the worlds 1st  Augmented Reality Flashmob at De Dam square, Amsterdam, NL

April 24th 14:00 CET

This happening by Dutch artist Sander Veenhof is not inworld SL, but with a little imagination one can foresee future possibilities of AR with live avatars & prims and it’s possible social impact…

More:
http://sndrv.nl/ARflashmob

http://twitter.com/#search?q=ARflashmob

http://flickr.com/photos/sndrv/4519088620

Sander Veenhof (aka Overig Solzhenitsyn in SL) is also known for his  groundbreaking performances and experiments with SL. Like for instance the mixed-reality installation:
“Physical Virtuality: What’s the weight of an avatar?”
http://sndrv.nl/physicalvirtuality

ALERT:

Who is gonna be in Amsterdam @ #ARflashmob this saturday and live stream from mobile device??? (Ustream or qik or so) Then we can also do a simultanious Media-Prim-Avatar-FLASHmob in Amsterdam, Second Life! 🙂 (with SL 2.0 Viewer)