Announcing Innovation Week on Orange Island

Join us for our new focus week dedicated to innovation in virtual worlds. Innovation is crucial because it has a major influence on the improvement of our daily life in this world. Innovation is more than often generated by creative residents who design new features or services to improve the user experience.

Innovation is also important to Orange. We are happy to welcome some speakers from Orange Labs who are currently working on new user interfaces, and from the Orange Telco 2.0 initiative, who’ll be introducing their API program for Second Life developers.

The mission of the Orange Island Team is to help people share and collaborate in Second Life. During this week, we will discover how the innovation process works so we can cooperate on making this world a better place.

Below is the final schedule of events for Innovation Week. Please check back next week for a detailed daily schedule.

Monday 29th of September

11AM SLT – Introduction: Back to the Future
Exploration of the innovations that shaped the world by Gwyneth Llewelyn

12PM SLT – Metanomics video-show
Interview with Philip Rosedale: from the specific future of Second Life to the widespread promise of virtual worlds.
Followed by a panel including Benjamin Duranske, Wagner James Au, Tish Shute (Tara5 Oh in SL), Nic Mitham, Christian Renaud, Bettina Tizzy and Dusan Writer about the implications of Rosedale’s vision.

1PM SLT – Hype or Real?
Vaporware or lasting solutions? Useful or not so? User-friendly or broken? Join us for a review of upcoming innovations involving the audience using the “Human Barometer”.
Moderator: Malburns Writer

Tuesday 30th of September

10:30 AM SLT – Orange APIs: telecommunications APIs
François Marx and Fredéric Taieb of Orange’s Telco 2.0 program will deliver a short presentation of the Orange API Program for SL developers.

12:00 PM SLT – Lightweight clients / UI Design: Usability & Design.
Moderator: Dusan Writer.
Speakers:  Jacek Antonelli (Imprudence viewer), Zaki (3Di) and Reta Shan (winner of the UI contest run by Dusan Writer).

1PM SLT – Metaverse Explorers in an innovative place.

Wednesday 1st October

12PM SLT : Innovative Communications Devices.
Speakers: Beyers Sellers, Chase Marellan (Chatbridge), Kevni Koolhaven (Learning Tree International)
Moderator: Tara5 Oh

1.30PM SLT – Independent developers “Show & Tell”.
Join some very talented independent developers as they share & demo their innovative projects.
MetaHUD by Metalife, Pauly Richez and Robbie Kiama
VR-Wear, Alexander Casassovici (SL: Ksso Yamauba)

Thursday 2nd of October

12PM SLT – Hands Free Navigation & Avatar Expression
Come discover interfaces that will eventually replace our mouse & keyboard, and free our expressivity in virtual worlds.
Speakers: Philippe Bossut (Handsfree3D), Alexander Casassovici (VR-Wear) and Gaspar Breton (Orange Labs).
Moderator: Dusan Writer

1.30 SLT – Bots: Uses, challenges, consequences.
Artificial intelligence & virtual worlds applications
Speakers: Baba Yamamoto (LibSL), Ima Ideator, Fairyverse Siamendes (MASA Group)
Moderator: Dirty McLean

Friday 3rd of October

12PM SLT – Community-driven Innovation: How ascending innovation is shaping virtual worlds
Speakers: Baba Yamamoto (LibSL), Robbie Kiama (MetaHUD) and Fire Centaur (SL Link).
Moderator: Hydra Shaftoe

1.30PM SLT – Interoperability: Where do we stand today?
Speakers: Zha Ewry (IBM), G2 Proto and Robin G2 Proto (Reactiongrid), Strawberry Fride (SL.NetUserGroup + TechNetGroup), Gigs Taggart (Meerkat client)
Moderator: Whump Linden

In addition to this program of discussions, Orange Island will be hosting a mini-exhibit on the main plaza, featuring some of the most innovative initiatives in Second Life. You’ll also be able to interact with a few bots, courtesy of the Masa Group & Ima Ideator.

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