Liveblog — forgive the typos.
Greg Boyd, general corporate attorney, at Paul Weiss.
I have given fifteen of these talks in the last three years. I promise this one is different. The goals of this talk:
Here are the slides for my presentation today. For once, you should be able to get the gist of what I said without needing to read or hear the actual lecture alongside the slides. I suppose that makes this a “bad use of Powerpoint” — but I swear I didn’t just read the slides. 🙂
First up, there’s this fancy MHT file that Powerpoint exported. It seems to only work in IE, though. 🙁
If that doesn’t work for you, there’s also a PDF (3.8MB). But I notice a lot of the graphics are wonky looking, including all the backgrounds.
Lastly, here’s a page with every slide as images.
Astute readers will notice that I stole a comment from the estimable Dr. Bartle. 😉
Always fun to see the different readings different people get from the same material!
I will try to get the slides posted today. The talk was actually quite heavy on the game grammar stuff — material which regular blog readers will likely find familiar, honestly. I was worried there was too much of it, but when I asked the crowd, they said they wanted more of it… so maybe the balance was OK.
I fly out in a couple of hours for the Austin Game Developers Conference. I will be there until Saturday morning. If you see me, say hi! And if you are trying to email me, be aware that I will probably be slow to respond.
My speaking schedule while there is available here.
Media Machines makes a 3d plugin specifically designed to be embedded in webpages and allow you to share 3d environments with others. One of the key movers behind it is Tony Parisi, who has a long history with VRML technology. Among other things, you can import SketchUp models into their 3d scenes.
They just landed $9.4m in funding, and their website says they’re hiring “virtual world system” folks.
The interesting thing about this, of course, is that here’s something that could be a “universal client” for web-based 3d worlds. Media Machines doesn’t seem to have a horse in the server race. Yet, anyway.
