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Building the City of Bits: Virtual Architecture Gets A Second Life
The slides were going to be run from in-world, with the camera tightly cropped on the slides. Following the last slide was going to be a grand sweeping crane shot to show the audience the extent of Architecture Island and highlight the fact that we were in a 3D world the whole time.
That didn’t work. Despite my best efforts, the slides kept advancing automatically. It might have been figured it out had the internet connection in the room been activated earlier than 5min before the scheduled start time. Enter good ol’ PowerPoint, and the crappy presenter mouse that will soon be returned to Office Depot.Following the slides, Keystone, Theory and myself were going to demo the building tools by making a contribution to the wikitecture space while Keystone and I voice chatted via Skype. We were going to use a second laptop to do this, but for similar reasons to those described above decided at the last minute to do it from my laptop instead. I’d never used the built-in mic before and couldn’t get it to pick up anything. Again, a little more time to prep and we would have had it figured out, but, the upside is, we were still able to hear Keystone, so I just typed in questions from the attendees and Keystone answered them in addition to providing a nice summary of his background, Architecture Island, and the Wikitecture build.
So despite some of these challenges we did what we set out to achieve, and it seemed to be well received by those in attendance. Thanks again Keystone and Theory, it wouldn’t have been the same without you, and a big thanks to Ryan McCuaig with the AIBC’s Conference Organizing Committee.
If you’re interested the slides are still up in the Wikitecture build on Architecture Island, and if you’d like a copy please feel free to IM me in-world.
