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

Virtual Worlds ’08 symposium [update]

 8 februari 2008 – F.E.M., Hogeschool Utrecht – 12:30-18:00

A report in Dutch at upthevortex.nl. Cellphone photo by Damien Simons.

 Collectively we hope to sketch a clear picture of the bussiness and society opportunities of virtual worlds. Second Life is the example for the moment. From a perspective of economy, community and society a vision of the future is the ultimate goal of this convention.

The above was quoted and translated from VirtualWorlds08.nl :

Gezamenlijk hopen wij op 8 Februari 2008 een helder beeld te schetsen van de zakelijke en maatschappelijke mogelijkheden van virtuele werelden. Hierbij is Second Life exemplarisch. Vanuit maatschappelijke, zakelijke en sociale invalshoek is een toekomstvisie het ultieme doel van het symposium.

What was lacking this day. in our humble opinion, was a central panel debate, with a possibility of audience interaction.

So no consensus vision about the future of virtual worlds / metaverses was established. A missed chance unfortunately…