
Rounding off the very successful week of events for Media Week on Orange Island come two events looking to the future of virtual world media, and its role in Second Life.
12.00 pm SLT: Discussion: The future of Augmented Reality
Speaker: Eric Rice
Hosted by Jade Lily
Eric Rice (aka Spin Martin in SL) is a Silicon Valley-based new media producer and writer. Used primarily as a gaming alias on various networks such as Xbox Live or the Playstation Network, Spin is also the owner of the Saijo City sim.
Podcast producer for Weblogs Inc, Autoblog, Engadget, he has been the first podcaster granted permission to play music from a major label.
2.00 pm SLT: Discussion: ‘Web on a Prim’: how does the web integrate into SL?
Speaker: Samuel Linden
Hosted by Nick Rhodes
Samuel Kolb (aka Samuel Linden in SL) has been at Linden Lab a little over a year. He is a software engineer and worked primarily on the recent Parcel Media changes that shipped in February. Before that he was a game developer for companies such as Eidos and Activision. He worked on Spiderman 3 for PS2 and Wii, and before that Xmen and Tomb Raider 7 to name a few.