Fireside Chat with Philip Rosedale

Speakers

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  Mal Burns (Poster Booth #2)
  

  Mal Burns (Poster Booth #2)

  Mal Burns is host of the “Inworld Review” – a weekly news and discussion program mostly focused on the hypergrid which has been running for over 15 years. Mal has used virtual environments for nearly two decades, 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 immersive spaces. He also has a twitter stream (@malburns) which provides news links on a daily basis.

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  Philip Rosedale
  

  Philip Rosedale

  Born in San Diego, the son of a Navy carrier pilot whose deployments took his family all over the United States before returning to San Diego for high school and college. BS Physics, UCSD ’92.

  Philip fell in love with coding in middle school, and started a software company in high school which helped pay for college. Moved to San Francisco in ’94, discovered the Internet, and created FreeVue, a videoconferencing app that worked over dialup with the earliest web cameras. Acquired by RealNetworks in late ’95, where he led the creation of RealVideo and became CTO.

  In ’99, Philip left RealNetworks and founded Linden Lab to create Second Life and fulfill his dream to build an open virtual world. After 10 years running Second Life as CEO, he started several experimental new companies with two co-founders, including LoveMachine, Worklist.net, and Coffee & Power. In 2013, after experimenting with the mems gyro chips that would enable the Oculus Rift, they started High Fidelity to build a new open-source virtual world platform for VR Headsets. In 2019, with VR failing to gain wide consumer acceptance, refocused High Fidelity on spatial audio.

  Presently working on a number of new projects at IRL415 lab in San Francisco, including FairShare, which aims to provide a basic income and reduce wealth inequality using a group-based digital currency.

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