This past Thursday, I had the privilege of speaking about the VR Web, a topic near and dear to my heart, at Coldfront, a front-end focused, single-track conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Despite battling off the remnants of a particularly nasty cold, my talk at Coldfront was one of my favorites that I’ve ever given. Why? The audience was great, the organizers were wonderful – but what really excited me about giving this talk was that
2023 Panel: Using Generative AI to Build the Metaverse – ARVR Policy Conference: September 13, 2023 The Future of Immersive Web in Education – XR Bootcamp: July 5, 2023 Multidimensional Computing Accessibility in the Age of XR and AI – XR Access Symposium: June 16, 2023 Open Innovation: Breaking the Default Together – South by Southwest: March 15, 2023 2022 Lessons Learned from Working in the Matrix – Women in Tech Awards Keynote: December 1,
I just skimmed back into an earlier blog post and realized that while I posted about leaving High Fidelity, I never actually updated with where I was headed. I didn’t post it here, though I did an announcement on Twitter with the news: I joined Mozilla back in March to work on their Mixed Reality initiatives, and finally have been able to go full-time into open source, web-based, asymmetric social 3D / VR spaces. Working
A couple of weeks back, I saw a request on Twitter for information about how to go about starting or contributing to open source software and projects, and I wanted to share what my experience with OSS has been, and my recommendations for anyone looking to get more involved with it (especially focusing on virtual reality). Firstly, some background on my experience with open source: I started developing virtual reality applications and prototypes using the