Updates from the Lab – Holiday cancelled, Almost!

After  busy April, partly May and back home from a very cool Metameets confrence in Dublin it’s about time for an update.

To those of you who are regular readers you will probably remember I declared summer holidays ahead in my last post. I barely finished that post before coming actions rolled in at high speed! Goodbye holiday but luckily all activities almost as refreshing and inspiring as holiday – to me at least!

Coming up!

May 31, 2 PM SLT/PST

Pop Vox featuring Craig Lyons

After several friends kept telling  me we had to get Craig Lyons to our sim we did some field research and noticed he was right up in Pop Vox category. He has the right amount of RL music background combined with a huge SL following filling up sim after sim for each of his shows. Actually I first came to know about Craig after a good friend passed me a link to a musicvideo just aired on Youtube done by the very talented machinima maker Rysan Fall. All to say Craig fits our Pop Vox concept perfectly – to broaden the gap and awareness between RL and SL musicians. More on this show next week! Meanwhile check out Craigs MySpace.

June 7-9 “Making Sense of Virtual Worlds and User Driven Innovation” Seminar

Since 2008 I’ve been participating in some very cool virtual worlds research led by RUC (Roskilde University, Denmark).  Time is up for a global seminar including John Lester aka ex-Pathfinder Linden, Tom Boellstorff and many more interesting participants. The event will take place at a cool venue and 45+ attendees will join in from all over the world. And it gets even cooler. Tuesday June 8 a Metanomics Special will be broadcasted as a mixed reality show streamed from the RL venue back and forth into the SL TV studio and hosted by Robert Bloomfield aka Beyers Sellers. I will be rezzed behind the soundmixer and try make sure all the audio is set. Luckily I’ll be guided by the technical wizz from university as well as by our  longtime partners- and friends at Treet.TV. We will make it! Also a short PAL presentation during seminar is scheduled and I expect all the PHds and professors will slice me up in pieces! However I will bounce back Monday evening where a party is planned and do the DJ thingy by using my SL DJ equipment (basicly a laptop) for the first time ever at a RL venue. Very exciting… hope to be able to stream it into our PAL sim as well so everyone can join and maybe see the fun!

Beside these two events the PAL roadmap includes a coming up “to be huge” Treet.TV Expo weekend which is currently in the making but still awaits final dates to be set. For this a Pop Vox showcase booth is under construction. Talking about builds we are also close getting our slot for a small showcase booth at the SL Solution Provider Exposition sims. And currently we’re taking notes on how we can improve our new simdesign on form and function as well.

And what more oh yes… we recieved a proposal on setting up an event based on sound/art installations. We’re looking for 7 skilled designers who would like to participate. This event is scheduled in about a month from now. Follow us here and inworld for updates or drop us a line if you wanna play!

Ok lastly I recently participated in a nice music roundtable led by Pete and Catherine Linden. Very exciting stuff and hope and wishes that Linden Labs PR strategy will work out well during 2010!