Metaverse Meetup – Long Beach July 30 – 31

by Pixeleen Mistral on 22/07/10 at 11:35 pm

Future of Metaverse be decided around a hookah on Queen Mary?

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The decks of the Queen Mary will echo at the end of July with the sound of open source techno-communists in jackboots, academics in clogs, birkenstock and flip-flop clad developers, and more than a few virtual world entrepreneurs sporting the sort of butter soft handmade Italian footwear favored by the most influential of the inner core when the Metaverse Meetup kicks off next weekend — a meta meeting to party like ProkStars while plotting the next stage in the evolution of immersive new media for Open Sim, Second Life, Blue Mars, and other virtual worlds.

Look for a diverse group of players, practitioners, and researchers from the likes of Inteligencia LLC, Woodbury University, Duke University, Motion Cafe, Project Neuro along with a host others to chart the course for the Second Life diaspora.

The Alphaville Herald will be on hand with the kind of engaged analysis and informed opinion only found in these pages, as we temporarily relocate the Herald newsroom to a deluxe stateroom aboard the Queen Mary – and you can join in the fun!  Special room rates are available through Monday, see this ning page for details.

While in LA, I’m hoping for an in-person interview with the Justice League Unlimited’s Kalel Venkman to discuss the fine points of the copyright fair use doctrine and the drawbacks to filing frivolous DMCA takedown notices. Kalel – if could stop by the Queen Mary you can both keep an eye on Woodbury crew and make good on that interview your promised me.

See you next weekend !

50 Responses to “Metaverse Meetup – Long Beach July 30 – 31”

  1. hobo kelly

    Jul 22nd, 2010

    Wellsum I reckon I can’t make it to that thar wild shindig gosh durn it, butah I reckon iffn somebody showed up with a Crazy Cat Lady hand puppet on and sumone else shot sum of that thar video of it an put it online on them thar interwebs fer everyone to see, I reckon I would have to write a new little Cat Lady song just spechul fer such a glorious event. word.

  2. Little Lost Linden

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    I won’t be able to make it to the boat…instead, I have to get to the chopper!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9-Te-DPbSE

  3. samantha

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    Um woodbury is dead and buried I don’t see how they can be even remolty considered into any sort of decision making process. If this happens as advertised then its a farce.

    Face it Woodbury your impotent now. Have a nice life somewhere else.

  4. Kiddoh

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    “Um woodbury is dead and buried I don’t see how they can be even remolty considered into any sort of decision making process.”

    This is a metaverse meet-up, not an SL convention– or more specifically, SL isn’t the only Metaverse out there.

    Are we dead in SL? Sure.

    Are we dead in BlueMars? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    “If this happens as advertised then its a farce.”

    I’ll assume this is the definition you’re using:

    “foolish show; mockery; a ridiculous sham.” -Dictionary

    All things considered. You defined SL rather accurately and perhaps all metaverses in general. Good job!

    However, if something where to happen as advertised, how exactly does that make it a sham?

    “Face it Woodbury your impotent now. Have a nice life somewhere else.”

    A nice life somewhere else? Where you planning on using the boat or something? I do apologize if WU has inconvenienced your Queen Mary boating enjoyment abilities.

  5. ɀ

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    @samantha

    Woodbury is organizing this event.

    Also, u mad?

  6. wat?

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    Samantha,
    Thanks very much for your comment! However before you post next time, you might want to do some cursory proof reading. Here are some helpful tips:

    “Um woodbury is dead and buried I don’t see how they can be even remolty considered into any sort of decision making process.”

    Where did the punctuation go? Remember, we use commas to break long sentences so we may pause for breath! “remolty”, doesn’t have an l, but it does have an e. Woodbury is a proper noun, and should always be capitalized.

    “If this happens as advertised then its a farce”, the “its” you use here is a possessive. You want “it’s”.

    “Face it Woodbury your impotent now”, again, with that tricky apostrophe! Remember- “you’re” = “you are”.

    Hope this helps!

  7. Al the Pretender

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    Kiddoh……Even if if you guys are in BM……whats the fun of it???

    How are you gonna grief Prokofy if she/he isn’t there?

    And really….whats the fun…there’s no JLU in BM……or Furries that i know of…..Hell it will be PG 13….

    No more conspiracy theories……sooooooo boooring….

    I heard you can’t fly…..
    And then if you guys stir shit at BM….and dont think the BM fellahs will want you there either :)

    Just Build? and Behave? That’s so Anti-Woodbury

  8. Kiddoh

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    Oh~ I dunno about that Al~. Apparently Kalel was insane enough to follow us into BlueMars. Of course he didn’t realize we already have a huge city and have built up a pretty good relationship with the Big Cheese of BM. It was funny because he said he had it “handled.” :B

  9. Bubblesort Triskaidekaphobia

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    Woodbury is less impotent than LL. LL is so understaffed (or apathetic) that they can’t even work tickets. Seriously. LL can’t catch up now, their momentum has been transferred to more relevant technologies. The relevant technologies out there are open sim and unity based, or they are wild new ideas from the ground up, like Open Cobalt.

    I’m surprised anybody is using blue mars. IMHO, it’s the weakest contender to inherit SLs leadership position in the metaverse. The lag is the worst I’ve ever seen and the interface is terrible. I know Caldelon has presence, but I was never able to TP past noob island. To put it bluntly, the game did not inspire me to want to move past noob island. I hear they are moving to a cloud by the end of the summer, though. I’ll have to check it out again sometime once they do that.

    I’m still holding out hope for an open standard to replace this hodgepodge of proprietary technologies.

  10. It's Unfixable

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    Have fun in Blue Mars – they’re not paying some of their employees. They’ll be gone in less than six months, and they’ll be taking all your money with them.

    Oh, and good fun on your paranoia, thinking that the only reason anybody else would go to Blue Mars is because you went there first.

  11. Kiddoh

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    @Bubblesort:

    What do you feel are the bigger contender to inherit SL’s leadership position in the metaverse?

  12. Jumpman Lane

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    I’m the future of the metaverse he he he! Watch and see! Oh and if u see that douche kevin alderman aka stroker serpentine kick him in the nads and tell him Jump Lane said what’s up!

  13. Darien Caldwell

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    @samantha

    Cute that you believe they are actually going to be deciding anything at the meeting. :)

  14. It's Unfixable

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    If WU is organizing this event, it will belly flop. They have a huge sense of their own importance, and they’re in for an equally large surprise, i.e., since they have no money and are behind most of the web site hacking surrounding the Second Life community these days, nobody is really interested in what they think.

  15. Glenn Beck

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    @wat?

    You know who else was a grammar nazi?

    …Hitler.

  16. Comrade Stalin will bring the iceberg. And Vodka, YES!

  17. Bubblesort Triskaidekaphobia

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    @kiddoh: OpenSim has the numbers and growth, for now. Once the Unity technologies get a little more momentum I see them getting bigger than OS, assuming OS technologies don’t merge with Unity. If OS goes browser based, unity style, I’ll predict LL will have 6 months to catch up or suffer the same fate Active Worlds did. It’s just a shame unity is proprietary.

    That’s just the feeling I get, at least. To be honest, I’m kind of out of the loop lately.

    Since we’re on the topic anyway: Somebody needs to borrow some features from Open Cobalt. OC is very alpha, not ready for prime time at all, but it has some awesome collaborative work space features (I call it “desktop on a prim”). TPs are replaced with portals and portals RAWK! Where there are portals there is always cake! Plus, when you can drop portals to anywhere you get to choose your neighbors.

  18. Transcon

    Jul 23rd, 2010

    This looks like just more of Woodburied trying to claim they’re not dead.

    They only set this up on July 1, and if you check the Metaverse Meetups site, nobody has actually confirmed that they’re going except for maybe five Woodburied, “The decks will echo with the sound of .. ” is probably only going to be true if they stomp loud enough to hurt their feet. All five of them.

    Your legacy is getting banned from an online game en masse without a refund, and hacking databases on the side.

    Do us all a favor and pack it in. We’re embarrassed for you.

  19. marilyn murphy

    Jul 24th, 2010

    lets vote them all out.

  20. Emperor Norton hears a who?

    Jul 26th, 2010

    So Woodburry is going to have a RL meeting to plot how to harass Prokofy?

  21. IntLibber Brautigan

    Jul 26th, 2010

    Norton,
    Obviously it is a sleeper cell of e-terrorists. Call the DHS.

  22. Emperor Norton hears a who?

    Jul 26th, 2010

    @ IntLibber Brautigan
    You need to catch up on your Reason magazine subscription IntLibber; unless they fail the brown paper bag test they are concerned citizens practicing their Second Amendment Rights in another medium. These kind of displays are the natural result frustration with the high, socialist driven National Debt.

  23. It's Unfixable

    Jul 26th, 2010

    I looked all over Blue Mars and I couldn’t find a shred of Woodbury anywhere. Somebody help me out here? Or is this more WU bullcrap?

  24. Stroker Serpentine

    Jul 27th, 2010

    @Jumpman Lane

    I would love nothing better than to have you attempt it in person HumpBoy! After all, your alma mater while be representing.

    BTW, what happened to your SL account, island and websites?

    Could “Jumpman Alex” be next?

    DA KANG of Second Life

    Founder, CEO Jumpman Alex’s™ ‘s Bug Magazine © 2008-2009 The Tard™

    I’ve got balls the size of Bowling Balls
    I have single-handedly harassed more business off the Grid than anyone
    If you piss me off I’ll call you names
    I have friends who are Lindens so I get away with it
    I’m the one who hasn’t published my magazine in a year and a half ‘cause I couldn’t get the tards to do my work for me.

    Damn those pesky Lindens!

  25. ɀ

    Jul 27th, 2010

    This looks like just more of Woodburied trying to claim they’re not dead.

    They only set this up on July 1, and if you check the Metaverse Meetups site, nobody has actually confirmed that they’re going except for maybe five Woodburied, “The decks will echo with the sound of .. ” is probably only going to be true if they stomp loud enough to hurt their feet. All five of them.

    Your legacy is getting banned from an online game en masse without a refund, and hacking databases on the side.

    Do us all a favor and pack it in. We’re embarrassed for you.

    Pro-tip, the internet does not end with Secondlife, lol. Woodburry is very much alive and will continue to be long after you are dead.

  26. Bubblesort Triskaidekaphobia

    Jul 27th, 2010

    @ Transcon: This thing has been in the works for a while. Pix invited me to it months ago. I wish I had the time and money to go. It will probably be a great party. It would be great to meet other like minded virtual “outlaws” like myself, LOL

    P.S. I was being ironic when I said that. I’m not actually a greifer, and I’m not part of WU but I am currently MAC banned from SL, even though my accounts are not shut off. I have had a ticket in to get it fixed for almost 3 weeks now and it hasn’t been touched yet. I know it has looked like the end for LL many times before but when they can’t even work a simple ticket like that, well, it’s a sign that we should either find a new medium or a new grid.

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  28. hobo kelly

    Jul 31st, 2010

    (the Crazy Cat Lady Talking Hand Puppet sings)

    “Queen Mary,
    “Queen Mary,
    “You woke up lookin’ hairy
    “With Sion Chicken runnin’ around
    “And Bolshevik Chicken Exterminators
    “Puttin’ them down
    “Hope they don’t run you aground
    “Oh, Queen Mary…”

  29. Edna

    Aug 1st, 2010

    I’ve been on the Queen Mary in Long Beach. The damn thing is haunted. Take a look at that creepy tiled pool in the bowels of the boat. How’d you like to walk alone through there at night, eh? By the way, the thing is retired – chained to the damn dock there. It goes nowhere. Next time hold your meeting on a nice Carnival or Celebrity cruise ship that actually sails somewhere and you might find it it a bit more enjoyable.

  30. Yep

    Aug 1st, 2010

    The Queen Mary was a nice ship to visit. I didn’t find the pool to be that creepy.(even though there is a legend about it being haunted) I did find the AA gun on deck to be cool. Talk about heading off to war in style on a luxurious boat. There is a lot of history involving that ship.

  31. Bubblesort Triskaidekaphobia

    Aug 2nd, 2010

    So what happened? None of the blogs on my RSS feeds are posting about this. Maybe all the attendees were caught and hung like they deserve to be, damn commie e-terrorists! LOL

  32. It's Unfixable

    Aug 2nd, 2010

    Nothing happened. Out of the five people who said they’d show up, nobody actually did. The whole thing was another Woodbury scam, like everything else they do.

  33. Anon

    Aug 17th, 2010

    It would have been interesting if Woodbury University were actually doing any of these things. All we see on the Herald is stuff they made up out of nothing, there’s no actual substance to it. Everything they are is on the surface, and there’s no wood under the paint. It’s all a sham, and always has been.

  34. Kiddoh

    Aug 18th, 2010

    lol, if you wanted to know what happened on the Queen Mary, perhaps you should have attended? We gave plenty of time and warning. There was a total of about 23 people who attended. We went all over the ship including the really spooky old parts that public doesn’t have access to. Drank some vodka wearing our Soviet hats in the old First Class pool-room.

    http://i38.tinypic.com/vhesfp.jpg

    All-and-all, we’re not a sham, you two are just a bunch of flakes. ;P

  35. Anon

    Aug 18th, 2010

    That’s a hastily faked up picture of a hat, a toy boat and a notebook.

    Pix with names or it didn’t happen.

  36. Alphaville Herald

    Aug 18th, 2010

    I understand that lack of information is causing anxiety for Anon, Witness X, Transcon, David McNaughten, Nonymous, and It’s Unfixable – but fear not.

    Pixeleen is preparing a video and photo laden report on the Metaverse Meetup, which I am sure will find its way into the Brainiac wiki instantly – too bad you didn’t join us in person.

    “If she says we partied, then I’m pretty sure we partied” – Killer Parties – The Hold Steady.

  37. Samantha

    Aug 18th, 2010

    Oh, yeah. I’m sure that’ll bring your advertisers back.

    Why don’t you just give it a rest, your paranoia is ruining what’s left of your blog site.

  38. Kiddoh

    Aug 18th, 2010

    “That’s a hastily faked up picture of a hat, a toy boat and a notebook.
    Pix with names or it didn’t happen.”

    Goto the Soviet Gift shop located right next to the Queen Mary. The hat in the picture cost 50$. They also sell Lenninaid for 2$ a bottle.

    Also; I noticed you neglected to mention the key-card in the picture. It’s used to open room doors on the Queen Mary.

    You would have known these things had you ever been there~

  39. Samantha

    Aug 19th, 2010

    I’m with Anon there – anybody could go collect these things any time. But if the party really did happen, a), it’s just a bunch of kids having a booze party, and b) I doubt you’ve gotten the necessary releases from all the participants to put the pictures up. Good recipe for getting sued by people’s parents when they find out.

  40. Samantha

    Aug 19th, 2010

    It also looks to me like “The Alphaville Herald” was doing the partying from the above comments. That would mean that the Herald is really just run by the Woodbury people, which everyone suspected all along anyway.

  41. Kiddoh

    Aug 22nd, 2010

    lol, you guys really are fickle. I’m doing you guys a favor by providing at least some shred of evidence long before any official videos and pictures come out because I know it’s going to be a while- some people don’t want their pictures posted on the internet and based on the way you guys act, I can see why. We accomplished what we held the event for and we most certainly don’t need your trust in the matter.

    Believe us or don’t. At this point in time the only way any of you will ever be certain would be if you actually attended the event, or you can get out of your house and goto the Soviet Gift shop and compare the prices like I said earlier (keep in mind you would have to do this IRL).

    Oh, and here’s another good one. Ask the Soviet Shop owner if a bunch of guys came over and asked if they could hang their flag on the Soviet Submarine.

  42. bubblesort triskaidekaphobia

    Aug 22nd, 2010

    “We accomplished what we held the event for and we most certainly don’t need your trust in the matter.”

    What did you hold the event for? A good party, or something more… interesting?

  43. Kiddoh

    Aug 22nd, 2010

    The big idea of the event was for people to get together and throw their ideas and opinions around as well as have some fun. We held the party as a way to talk with some people from Blue Mars and show off what WU has been working on in regards to content creation. Pix was there too, he was almost about to get a picture of me sleeping through the discussions, but I kinda knew something was up when things got quiet. XD

    Also; being the lovable scamps that we are; we paid off security for a life-time pass to all the no-public zones of the ship– we had booze in the old first-class swimming pool.

    Oh and here’s a rather obscure tid-bit that you’ll only see on the Queen Mary. Goto the Captain’s Arcade and one of the machines’ games was replaced by Progear. You can tell because the Progear label is taped over the original game– the original game being Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. I was so happy and sad at the same time. :<

    As of right now we've been thinking about having the Queen Mary thing be an annual Woodbury University event. Also; we helped improve the accommodations of the ship by working out a deal with the people who run the Queen Mary– They should be getting improved Wi-Fi internet among other things.

  44. hobo kelly

    Jun 26th, 2011

    wow, this long beach story has BOATS in it. i almost forgot about it.
    hey, here is another story i found out on the internet that has boats in it that you might like. the style almost seems familiar…

    “Friends around the globe,

    We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us.

    For the past 50 days we’ve been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could. All to selflessly entertain others – vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love. The raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy. It’s what we all crave, even the seemingly lifeless politicians and emotionless, middle-aged self-titled failures. You are not failures. You have not blown away. You can get what you want and you are worth having it, believe in yourself.

    While we are responsible for everything that The Lulz Boat is, we are not tied to this identity permanently. Behind this jolly visage of rainbows and top hats, we are people. People with a preference for music, a preference for food; we have varying taste in clothes and television, we are just like you. Even Hitler and Osama Bin Laden had these unique variations and style, and isn’t that interesting to know? The mediocre painter turned supervillain liked cats more than we did.

    Again, behind the mask, behind the insanity and mayhem, we truly believe in the AntiSec movement. We believe in it so strongly that we brought it back, much to the dismay of those looking for more anarchic lulz. We hope, wish, even beg, that the movement manifests itself into a revolution that can continue on without us. The support we’ve gathered for it in such a short space of time is truly overwhelming, and not to mention humbling. Please don’t stop. Together, united, we can stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve.

    So with those last thoughts, it’s time to say bon voyage. Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance, leaving behind – we hope – inspiration, fear, denial, happiness, approval, disapproval, mockery, embarrassment, thoughtfulness, jealousy, hate, even love. If anything, we hope we had a microscopic impact on someone, somewhere. Anywhere.

    Thank you for sailing with us. The breeze is fresh and the sun is setting, so now we head for the horizon.

    Let it flow…

    Lulz Security – our crew of six wishes you a happy 2011, and a shout-out to all of our battlefleet members and supporters across the globe”

    http://www.businessinsider.com/lulzsec-finished-2011-6

  45. Yep

    Jun 26th, 2011

    I read this earlier, they have been exposed and are trying to cover their tracks lol.
    I am sure the ones that survive arrest will be back in one form or another pulling their antics again.

  46. hobo kelly

    Jun 28th, 2011

    yeah its weird…

    “…we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean…” — “…the love machine, the machine powered by many machines…”

    that sounds like a reference to the Blake Sea in SL and Phillips own Love Machine sort of yes no?

    “…Even Hitler…”

    that reminds me of “Could it be Hitler?”

    “…we truly believe in the AntiSec movement. We believe in it so strongly that we brought it back, much to the dismay of those looking for more anarchic lulz…”

    that reminds me of when the Herald came out and said it was going to be covering Cyber Hacking more and SL anarchy less, that whole Wikileaks thing that was going on…

    “…Lulz Security – our crew of six wishes you a happy 2011, and a shout-out to all of our battlefleet members and supporters across the globe…”

    Sailing, battlefleet members… that REALLY sounds like the Contested Waters of the Blake Sea near the Hollywood sim where the Blake Sea Battlefleet group hangs out from 10am to Noon ramming their dumb boats into each other. I doubt if an anarchist / hacker / lulz purveyor would hang out in the Contested Waters of Second Life though. would they?

    weird

  47. Emperor Norton hears a who?

    Jun 28th, 2011

    hobo kelly @ “I doubt if an anarchist / hacker / lulz purveyor would hang out in the Contested Waters of Second Life though. would they?”

    Were else but Second Life could someone talk themselves into something as dumb as nothing could possibly wrong for them personally if they hacked the CIA?

  48. Nelson Jenkins

    Jun 29th, 2011

    @ Emperor Norton hears a who?

    They didn’t hack the CIA. They DDoS’d their public website so it was unavailable for half an hour and they baited the media with “we hacked the CIA we are badasses go us”. You think they store any sensitive data on http://www.cia.gov?

    Not to say that DDoS isn’t illegal or anything.

  49. Yep

    Jun 29th, 2011

    Go getem Tiger :D

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