Last night I was at a real-life Second Life (SL) meetup hosted by the lovely folks at The Idea Factory. A pretty interesting mix of people showed up ranging from those who simply love and live Second Life while others who were exploring it for education, marketing, sociology, and technology.
A few very interesting and telling announcements were shared at the meeting. For one, Linden Labs is planning on coming to Singapore. They already have backing from the EDB and are looking on hiring programmers and developers in Singapore. Apparently, if you get selected by Linden Labs here, you’ll get to live and learn in San Francisco for six months learning the ropes from the guys that built the system. They also have plan for deploying servers in Singapore to serve the region.
Also, there’s an emerging interest in growing the commercial eco-system around SL here in Singapore. I didn’t realise this till last night, but no one in Singapore actually commercially builds SL items from buildings to clothes or even modeling your face onto your avatar. I actually found this strange because I’m beginning to see a huge interest in developing sites in SL by various companies and organizations in both the private and public sectors.
So there’s much going on in this 3D world that’s affecting our real world even in our tiny country.
Also, Linden Lab’s CTO Cory Ondrejka will be in Singapore in March.
More opinions and thoughts on last night can be found on Ivan’s and Vanessa’s blog.
P.s. If you see someone by the name of Benjamin Kellner in SL, do stop to say hi. =)
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Have you join the “SL Singapore” group yet? Looking forward to meeting you online.
“I didn’t realise this till last night, but no one in Singapore actually commercially builds SL items from buildings to clothes or even modeling your face onto your avatar.” Not true, there are alot of builders from Singapore who sell their things. You just have to open your eyes wider, XD.
@Arashi Yes, but that was in Feb 2007. Much has changed since then.