Many thanks to Tish Shute (SL: Tara5 Oh) for bringing this to my attention, there is now an audio recording of the Open Source Virtual Worlds panel I mentioned in my last post at Ugotrade. Tish writes:
Some people may have walked away from Virtual Worlds 2008, NYC, thinking the vision of the metaverse has boiled down to two notions: 1) every toy should have its own own virtual world and 2) may a thousand walled gardens flourish. But, if you did come away thinking that, you missed out on another important current at the conference – the rapid growth of the open metaverse and the excitement of developers, architects and visionaries who are exploring its potential.
Please go see her post The Architects of the Open Source Metaverse at Virtual Worlds 2008 to check out more analysis, links, and the transcript/ recording of the session. This session was the hidden gem of the conference, IMO.
For some other thoughts on VW2008, see Hamlet Au’s open source thoughts and money deals posts, Cory Ondrejka’s thoughts, Prokofy Neva’s blog, and Aldon Huffhines site. Sun’s Wonderland blog has a post here as well.