[...] I pointed some towards descriptions of OpenCroquet, when I saw it back at the Metaverse Roadmap Summit. Well, now Qwaq has come out of stealth, commercializing the platform. It looks like their approach is to use it not for entertainment or even for user creativity, but rather for straight-up business applications. Given the whimsical nature of the Croquet demos I saw, it’s a bit of a letdown to see a corporate office space as the first Qwaq product. But I suppose that it’s a bid to establish OpenCroquet as more of an operating system than a virtual world, which seems to be the emphasis among the project leaders. [...]

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[...]   0 Following the grid attack last month, we’ve been having a time of roadmapping the potential futures of the Metaverse!  Raph Koster’s blogosphere roundup of the Metaverse Roadmap summit here. [...]

[...] Following the grid attack last month, we’ve been having a time of roadmapping the potential futures of the Metaverse!  Raph Koster’s blogosphere roundup of the Metaverse Roadmap summit here. [...]

[...] Raph Koster’s Roadmap roundup and his further thoughts, in which he highlights one of my favorite ideas when thinking about things like this: technology should follow needs. (Which is not to say that it’s my ideas, just one I like.) [...]

Back from Menlo Park

Mark Wallace and I just wrapped up the SD Forum and the Metaverse Roadmap events in San Francisco. We have some amazing material in the queue for Metaverse Sessions! We interviewed Reuban Stieger of Millions of Us, Sibley of Electric…

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[...] This seems like a crowd that might want to discuss the stuff coming out of the Metaverse Roadmap Summit, if only to dismiss it all as dotcommie hype and cyberspace wanking. http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/05/04/sdforum-friends-and-strangers/ http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/05/04/sdforum-joi-itos-keynote/ http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/05/05/sdforum-cnets-take/ http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/05/06/metaverse-roadmap-roundup/ Particularly off the beaten path: the notion of using virtual worlds as annotation sources for the real world. Anyone here been talking about Google Earth the MMO? Because that was very much on everyone’s mind in the Valley given their purchase of SketchUp. [...]

[...] Raph Koster has posted an entry titled “Metaverse Roadmap roundup” (Link) containing bits and pieces from the conference; mostly excerpts. Worth a read to help get a sense of what was discussed. It’s currently the most recent in a series of posts covering the West Coast events. [...]