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December 13: 2010 & Next - Second Life, Virtual Worlds and the State of the Union

Its been a decade of advances for virtual worlds, ending with a year that many won’t forget. As the technologies allowing immersive experiences expand, Second Life has come to a cross-roads of sorts, with Linden pulling the plug on its enterprise product and raising the price for educational and non-profit institutions.

With the final show of the year, Metanomics host Robert Bloomfield welcomes a panel of guests who will explore the year that’s been and the year ahead.

Have management changes at Linden Lab put a damper on innovation? Does the growth of OpenSim as a viable technology alternative herald the end of Second Life as the largest user-generated virtual world? Has the “Viewer 2.0” been a failure, or is it making progress?

Our panel will help us to grapple with the tough questions that faced many institutions over the past year, but will also take a look at the often unheralded progress that has happened with or without the ‘platform owners’ – the advances in education, cross-disciplinary learning, and health.

Robert Bloomfield welcomes three leaders who have helped to shape awareness of virtual worlds, and facilitated the wider understanding of the important role they play in education, training, architecture, social change and healthcare.

Join us as we welcome:

Larry Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium
Brian Kaihoi of the Mayo Clinic
and Terry Beaubois, Professor of the College of Architecture and Director of the Creative Research Lab (CRLab) at Montana State University

Watch the episode live on Monday, December 13, 2010 at 12:00 p.m. PT. You can join us in Second life for this event Metanomics Studio or watch it via video stream on this Web page.

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