Serious Virtual Worlds Conference

First European Conference on the Professional Applications of Virtual Worlds, to be held on 13-14 September at the Serious Games Institute, Coventry.

http://www.seriousvirtualworlds.net/index.php

If you sign up online, you can collect three gold tokens to offer to the Keeper of the Gate on the Island of Cruel Beings, to gain access to the Upper Chambers of Asgaroth and a shot at the title... seriously (not!).

James's avatar watches James on a live feed (via Wirecast). Had problems last night with others seeing this, and I guess that's due to me using my home machine as a steaming server. Not much use on a 128kb upload.

But - it can be done.

Web TV

I've been playing around today trying to get a live videofeed into SL - the one product that would do it OK is the only one that doesn't work on my machine [https://www.veodia.com/beta/]. As a proof of concept, I've set up my own stream on UStream, and did some 'broadcasting'. Very good it is, but obviously the upload speed is important. One for work I think.

Finally, after a seven week wait, the island is up on the grid. As you can see, I've been doing some basic design and playing around ....

http://slurl.com/secondlife/DISland/92/159/30