Join us at the Metanomics Main Stage on Thursday at 12:00 p.m. PST as Dusan Writer (Doug Thompson) hosts a discussion of upcoming Second Life features. You can also participate live via the Web.

Mesh imports, synchronous in-world Web browsing, document sharing, a new enterprise portal, avatar phone numbers, a new viewer – these are some of the many features Linden Lab previewed at the recent Second Life Community Convention in San Francisco. Any one of them could have a significant impact on how enterprise uses Second Life and on the current user-generated economy.

This meeting of the Community Forum will focus on a brief description of each feature followed by a discussion of its possible use. There will be a brief opening review of the overall goals of the Lab’s road map for Second Life. Join us for a discussion of where Second Life is headed, the opportunities and challenges, and what these features mean to you.

Some reading and resources:

Mark Kingdon’s SLCC Keynote Presentation (Overview of where we’ve been and main goals for the coming year)

The LLMedia API (Overview of a new plug-in architecture and API for media in Second Life)

The Road Map (Dusan Writer’s Metaverse, overview of Tom Hale’s presentation of new features)
Second Life 2.0 (Screen shots of the new Web site)

Mesh Imports (Overview by Sand Castle Studios’ Reed Steamroller)

Second Life enhancing media-integration and 3D content quality (Commentary at Mixed Realities)

Videos:

Tech Demo of Mesh Imports

“HTML on a Prim”

First API Plug-In For Second Life:

(read about it on New World Notes)