{"id":894,"date":"2006-05-07T13:17:50","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T17:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2006-05-16T00:09:44","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T04:09:44","slug":"metaverse-roadmap-rest-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"Metaverse Roadmap Rest Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raph Koster has posted an entry titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raphkoster.com\/2006\/05\/06\/metaverse-roadmap-roundup\/\">&#8220;Metaverse Roadmap roundup&#8221; (Link)<\/a> containing bits and pieces from the conference; mostly excerpts. Worth a read to help get a sense of what was discussed. It&#8217;s currently the most recent in a series of posts covering the West Coast events.<\/p>\n<p>What struck me most about this one post were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/?p=537\">Ethan Zuckerman&#8217;s comments (Link)<\/a> regarding the Croquet demo. The response by those in attendence seems odd; as if a number of people weren&#8217;t aware of the project and its capabilities (or at least how it had progressed). The comments on Ethan&#8217;s site touch on this issue and are worth reading I think. The difficulties in promoting open source software appear to be an issue. I recently read that OpenOffice is launching a major effort to spur adoption. Weird to think free software requires a dedicated marketing effort. Something is most definitely missing from this equation.<\/p>\n<p>{Update: For those who have not seen Croquet in action, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/mslive.sonicfoundry.com\/mslive\/Viewer\/NoPopupRedirector.aspx?peid=172f6de5-135b-4ba0-9207-ac6d383812c9&#038;shouldResize=False#\">video from last October that you can watch (Link)<\/a>. It&#8217;s well worth the time, imo.}<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to the subject at hand, there has also been some good coverage over on Mark Wallace&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3pointd.com\/\">3pointD weblog (Link)<\/a>. Readers might want to head over and read some entries there as well. If I find any other good entries, I&#8217;ll tack them on to this one.<\/p>\n<p>-Added Links-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3pointd.com\/20060507\/futuring-the-metaverse\/\">Futuring the Metaverse (Link)<\/a> &#8211; a wrap-up post over on 3pointD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Online+spaces+The+new+frontier\/2100-1043_3-6068918.html?tag=fd_carsl\">Online spaces: The new frontier (Link)<\/a> &#8211; article about SDForum over on C|Net.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raphkoster.com\/2006\/05\/08\/thoughts-on-the-metaverse-summit\/\">Thoughts on the Metaverse Summit<\/a> &#8211; Raph Koster&#8217;s thoughts after the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Mapping+a+path+for+the+3D+Web\/2100-1025_3-6069459.html?tag=nefd.lede\">Mapping a path for the 3D Web<\/a> &#8211; C|Net article about the Metaverse Roadmap meetup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raph Koster has posted an entry titled &#8220;Metaverse Roadmap roundup&#8221; (Link) containing bits and pieces from the conference; mostly excerpts. Worth a read to help get a sense of what was discussed. It&#8217;s currently the most recent in a series &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=894\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}