OSCC13 - Keynote - Exodus to the Virtual Frontier The Seductive Lure of the Mindspace
Channel: AvaCon Inc
Date: 30/09/2013

Cynthia's keynote address, entitled The Exodus to the Virtual Frontier: The Seductive Lure of the Mindspace, takes a glimpse at the future of virtual worlds and what makes them compelling as we explore the advances in the architecture and the social construct that supports multidimensional engagement.

Cynthia, as Lyr Lobo, is a researcher, professor, software engineer and pioneer in the use of virtual environments for education, simulation and modeling. In 2010, her team won the $25,000 Grand Prize in the Federal Virtual World Challenge. She is a professor in the Doctor of Computer Science program at Colorado Technical University, and in 2009, she designed and launched the Doctor of Computer Science in Emerging Media degree to encourage research in virtual worlds and Web technology. She co-authored two books, 120 presentations and numerous papers, mentored 400 middle school students in Ramapo's virtual world, worked with Will Wright on the TV show Bar Karma and co-hosted the ISTE 2013 EPIC Leadership alternative reality game with Peggy Sheehy that featured Jane McGonigal. She is known as Lyrae the Insane in the World of Warcraft.

About the OpenSimulator Community Conference 2013:  The OpenSimulator Community Conference is an annual conference that focuses on the community around the OpenSimulator software.  The conference features two days of presentations, workshops, keynote sessions, and social events across diverse sectors of the OpenSimulator user base.  Organized as a joint production by the Overte Foundation and AvaCon, Inc., the first annual conference was hosted on an OpenSimulator grid specifically designed for the conference, and had 369 attendees.  

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