The New Open Source & Interoperability (Panel)

Speakers

• Adam Frisby
  

  Adam Frisby

  Adam is a 23 year veteran virtual world developer, and one of the original developers of OpenSimulator. Today he’s building a next-gen platform at Sine Wave Entertainment building Sinespace and Breakroom.

• Dale Glass
  

  Dale Glass

  Vircadia core developer

  https://vircadia.com/team/

• Evo Heyning
  

  Evo Heyning

  Evo Heyning has been creating immersive experiences that bridge real and virtual worlds for more than 20 years. As an interactive showrunner and production strategist Evo aligns a wide variety of media projects ranging from the Affordable Care Act public campaign to producing more than 500 hours of livestreaming and virtual events during the pandemic. Her work focuses on metaverse media and the creative potential of interactive, participatory, volumetric and virtual production to change our shared experiences. Evo shapes the future of the open spatial web to connect people through collaborative technologies through her company Playable Agency, providing early stage production strategy and creative worldbuilding that expand reality. Evo serves as co-chair of Open Metaverse Interoperability Community Group, a cross-industry network of collaborators working on independent R&D toward a more effective public meta commons.

• Mal Burns
  

  Mal Burns

  Mal Burns is host of the “Inworld Review” – a weekly news and discussion program which has been running for over 10 years. He and Tara Yeats run Metaworld Broadcasting to provide input and output services for TV in virtual worlds and the expertise for the same. Mal has used virtual environments for nearly a decade, is concerned about user interfaces in general and has a wealth of media and design experience behind him. In the organic sphere he is now retired and uses his experience to deploy and promote in immersive spaces. He also has a twitter stream (@malburns) provide news links on a daily basis.