Next on Copper Robot: Designing great public spaces in Second Life.
When: Sunday, August 16, 6 pm PT
Where: The lovely Seaside Theater, World2Worlds Island in Second Life, or watch the live video on the Web.
Guests: John Jainschigg, Exec Director of the Internet and Community Labs at ZiffDavisEnterprise, and head of the advisory board at World2Worlds. He’s John Zhaoying in Second Life. World2Worlds is a full-service virtual worlds solution provider whose rap-sheet includes work for UBM, Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, IBM and ZiffDavisEnterprise. World2Worlds provides the venue for Copper Robot. John built the theater where we meet, and the island, and other successful business areas in Second Life.
Our other guest will be Jon Himoff, who’s RightAsRain Rimbaud in Second Life. He’s CEO and Founder of Rezzable, which built some of the best entertainment areas in Second life, including the Greenies sim and the Heritage Key King Tut Exhibit on OpenSim.
I’m having a little difficulty writing up a description for the next Copper Robot that conveys my excitement for the subject, because it’s a kind of weird and esoteric area. It has to do with the principles of designing great public spaces in Second Life—and, by extension, the emerging 3D Internet.
As people design spaces in Second Life and other virtual worlds for public use—including theaters and nightclubs and malls and gaming areas and digital urban downtowns—they’re inventing a new visual language, borrowing the principles of real-life architecture and Web design to make exciting new digital spaces.
Our guests are a couple of the best and most opinionated creators of public spaces in Second Life and other virtual worlds. John Jainschigg builds for business and John Himoff builds for entertainment uses. It’s sure to be a lively discussion. Hope to see you there.
Update 8/16: Jon Himoff got things started for tonight’s discussion with a post on the Rezzables’ blog.
