Get a (Second) Life!
by Mr. Cory Ondrejka

Synopsis

Come experience Second Life, a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, Second Life has grown explosively. It is today inhabited by a total of 1,377,717 people from around the globe and sees approximately US$600,000 transacted daily among its inhabitants. One entrepreneur in Second Life has even been reported to be worth as much as US$250,000, real money chalked up purely by selling her real estate management expertise to other residents in this virtual world.

Having been recently featured on the cover of Business Week and a myriad of other publications including Fortune, The New York Times, Time Magazine, The National Law Journal, Red Herring and Wired, Second Life is on course to not only change the way people work, play and interact, but also the world wide web as we know it.

On hand to share with us the ins and outs of this award-winning, user-created digital world is Cory Ondrejka.

About the Speaker

As Chief Technology Officer, Cory Ondrejka lead his team at Linden Lab to develop the revolutionary technologies required to enable collaborative, atomistic creation, including distributed physical simulation, 3D streaming, completely customizable avatars and real-time, in-world editors. Ondrejka also spearheaded the decision to allow users to retain the IP rights to their creations and helped craft Linden's virtual real estate policy. Prior to joining Linden Lab in November 2000, Ondrejka served as Project Leader and Lead Programmer for Pacific Coast Power and Light. At PCP&L, he brought the "Road Rash" franchise to Nintendo for the first time with "Road Rash 64" and built the core technology teams that completed multiple products for Nintendo and Sony consoles. Ondrejka is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, where he was a Presidential "Thousand Points of Light" recipient and became the first person to earn Bachelors of Science degrees in two technical majors: Weapons and Systems Engineering and Computer Science.

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